One morning in January this year, marine scientist Terry Hughes opened X (formerly Twitter) and searched for tweets about the Great Barrier Reef. "I keep an eye on what's being tweeted about the reef ...

Elon Musk is planning to remove the block feature on X Binance's CZ said "X should really solve the bots and spam problems before removing blocks" Removing bots was one of the top concerns that Musk ...

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday announced that it is testing a “Not A Bot” program that charges new, unverified users $1 per year to post and interact with content on X.

Bluesky, the social media startup that has gained immense popularity and millions of new signups in the past week, has announced that it is dealing with a large spike in spam, harmful content, and ...

An increasingly popular technique for preventing e-mail abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and advocates for the disabled.

Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released Wednesday claimed. California-based Marshal8e6 deliberately infected machines in the lab of its ...