#bots — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bots, aggregated by home.social.
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Rendering turtleSpaces Logo code in 3D space.
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Rendering turtleSpaces Logo code in 3D space.
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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/new-font-turns-ordinary-webpages-into-nonsense-for-ai-scrapers/
Ein weiterer Versuch, eine #Schriftart einzusetzen, die #Bots und andere #Scraper davon abhält, Webseiten einzulesen. Die Technik: mit #Ligaturen nachträglich einzelne Wörter ersetzen.
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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/new-font-turns-ordinary-webpages-into-nonsense-for-ai-scrapers/
Ein weiterer Versuch, eine #Schriftart einzusetzen, die #Bots und andere #Scraper davon abhält, Webseiten einzulesen. Die Technik: mit #Ligaturen nachträglich einzelne Wörter ersetzen.
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Bringing you infographics about what states like!
https://botwiki.org/bot/landofcontrasts/
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Bringing you infographics about what states like!
https://botwiki.org/bot/landofcontrasts/
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Never forget the current weekday!
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Never forget the current weekday!
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Because all selfies are beautiful.
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Because all selfies are beautiful.
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So many javascript executing bots are hitting Open Context right now. We're seeing 15 times more traffic than "normal" (if there is such a thing any more) on Open Context.
They burned through the use limits on our map APIs. Now our maps don't render properly.
Somewhere, a data center is boiling a lake of drinking water devouring database records of sheep/goat bones.
I'm so exhausted by this.
#openaccess #opendata #bots #fuckinghell #archaeology #AIbubble
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You forgot Tay.
PC Gamer: Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsofts-blobby-ai-companion-has-begun-his-ascent-to-the-heavens-to-join-clippy-and-cortana-okay-hes-being-booted-to-another-platform/ #Microsoft #bots
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You forgot Tay.
PC Gamer: Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsofts-blobby-ai-companion-has-begun-his-ascent-to-the-heavens-to-join-clippy-and-cortana-okay-hes-being-booted-to-another-platform/ #Microsoft #bots
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The Register: Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/14/autonomous-ai-attacks-pose-clear-and-present-danger-to-critical-infrastructure/5287594 @theregister #infosec #bots
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The Register: Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/14/autonomous-ai-attacks-pose-clear-and-present-danger-to-critical-infrastructure/5287594 @theregister #infosec #bots
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Unless machine "marriages" can boost the baby population, this trend will probably be stopped. Fast.
Also, AI companies should be held accountable for this.
Republican Senator: “If we’re going to allow men or women to marry a machine, then what keeps them from marrying their animal or a tree or whatever else they want? What’s the standard?”
Wired: People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-marrying-chatbots-these-lawmakers-want-to-stop-them/ @WIRED #bots
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Unless machine "marriages" can boost the baby population, this trend will probably be stopped. Fast.
Also, AI companies should be held accountable for this.
Republican Senator: “If we’re going to allow men or women to marry a machine, then what keeps them from marrying their animal or a tree or whatever else they want? What’s the standard?”
Wired: People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-marrying-chatbots-these-lawmakers-want-to-stop-them/ @WIRED #bots
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"Sysdig researchers, however, have previously observed an AI agent move from a single vulnerability to an organization’s internal database in under one hour. They have also exposed JADEPUFFER, the first documented case of a ransomware attack managed end to end by an AI agent."
Security Boulevard: Sysdig AI CNAPP Agents Identify Threats and Surface Remediation Recommendations https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/sysdig-ai-cnapp-agents-identify-threats-and-surface-remediation-recommendations/ #infosec #bots #ransomware
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"Sysdig researchers, however, have previously observed an AI agent move from a single vulnerability to an organization’s internal database in under one hour. They have also exposed JADEPUFFER, the first documented case of a ransomware attack managed end to end by an AI agent."
Security Boulevard: Sysdig AI CNAPP Agents Identify Threats and Surface Remediation Recommendations https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/sysdig-ai-cnapp-agents-identify-threats-and-surface-remediation-recommendations/ #infosec #bots #ransomware
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“Are you a robot? If you’re not, you’re going to be pretty sure you’re not. Still, online at least, you likely find it difficult to tell who else is and is not. Businesses find this difficult, too, and it’s getting harder all the time. If you were forced to guess, the odds would tell you to guess robot, because at this point there are more bots online than people. To deal with this problem, businesses retain bot-detection and bot-management firms, a specialty within the field of cybersecurity. Their task used to be to block bots, but, with the rise of agentic A.I., that has changed. Now the problem is how to let in the good bots (like the avatar you send to the Gap to buy you a new pair of pants) and keep out the bad bots (like the thief trying to scrape the data of every Gap customer). The rest of us have to be our own bot detectors. It’s been suggested to me that if you’re on the phone or in an online chat with a customer-service “person” and you aren’t sure whether you’re talking to a human or a chatbot, one good idea is to ask, “What color shoes are you wearing today?” Because chatbots don’t have feet. (Yet.) I once asked a customer-service representative calling herself Crystal S. if she could prove to me that she was human, and she told me that she lived in Texas and had three daughters and two French bulldogs named Benny and Smoltz. I forgot to ask her about her shoes.
This is not a drill. But it is a hassle, something between an inconvenience and a nightmare, depending on your degree of enthusiasm for the shiny, glimmering how-we-live-now Orb of it all. It is also a very long game of cat and mouse. We used to be the cats. Now we’re the mice.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/17/are-you-a-human
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“Are you a robot? If you’re not, you’re going to be pretty sure you’re not. Still, online at least, you likely find it difficult to tell who else is and is not. Businesses find this difficult, too, and it’s getting harder all the time. If you were forced to guess, the odds would tell you to guess robot, because at this point there are more bots online than people. To deal with this problem, businesses retain bot-detection and bot-management firms, a specialty within the field of cybersecurity. Their task used to be to block bots, but, with the rise of agentic A.I., that has changed. Now the problem is how to let in the good bots (like the avatar you send to the Gap to buy you a new pair of pants) and keep out the bad bots (like the thief trying to scrape the data of every Gap customer). The rest of us have to be our own bot detectors. It’s been suggested to me that if you’re on the phone or in an online chat with a customer-service “person” and you aren’t sure whether you’re talking to a human or a chatbot, one good idea is to ask, “What color shoes are you wearing today?” Because chatbots don’t have feet. (Yet.) I once asked a customer-service representative calling herself Crystal S. if she could prove to me that she was human, and she told me that she lived in Texas and had three daughters and two French bulldogs named Benny and Smoltz. I forgot to ask her about her shoes.
This is not a drill. But it is a hassle, something between an inconvenience and a nightmare, depending on your degree of enthusiasm for the shiny, glimmering how-we-live-now Orb of it all. It is also a very long game of cat and mouse. We used to be the cats. Now we’re the mice.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/17/are-you-a-human
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A twitter bot that loves you and wants you to be happy.
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A twitter bot that loves you and wants you to be happy.
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Keeping you in-the-know about the levels of things.
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Keeping you in-the-know about the levels of things.
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Intellichat is featured on Awesome Indie! 🚀 Multi Channel AI-powered chatbot for seamless support
Upvote it → https://awesomeindie.com/product/intellichat
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Intellichat is featured on Awesome Indie! 🚀 Multi Channel AI-powered chatbot for seamless support
Upvote it → https://awesomeindie.com/product/intellichat
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Is the wisdom of the Fediverse crowd better than a modern chess engine?
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Is the wisdom of the Fediverse crowd better than a modern chess engine?
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See what’s new on Botwiki! Yes, this very site!
https://botwiki.org/bot/new-on-botwiki/
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See what’s new on Botwiki! Yes, this very site!
https://botwiki.org/bot/new-on-botwiki/
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Acontextual catharsis, or lack thereof.
https://botwiki.org/bot/endingsummary/
Follow:
- https://mastodon.social/@endingsummary
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Acontextual catharsis, or lack thereof.
https://botwiki.org/bot/endingsummary/
Follow:
- https://mastodon.social/@endingsummary
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seeing a lot of credential scraping (.env, .aws/credentials, secrets.json, .ssh, etc.) coming from google cloud ips with a "GoogleOther" user agent
can't tell if it's actually google's traffic or just malicious bots using their cloud infra and spoofing the user agent :blobfoxglare:
either way i'm blocking the ips as they roll in (the UA already gets a 403 response)
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seeing a lot of credential scraping (.env, .aws/credentials, secrets.json, .ssh, etc.) coming from google cloud ips with a "GoogleOther" user agent
can't tell if it's actually google's traffic or just malicious bots using their cloud infra and spoofing the user agent :blobfoxglare:
either way i'm blocking the ips as they roll in (the UA already gets a 403 response)
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Finally, some common sense.
"We’re also conditioned to assume that the speed of AI probably means that this attack unfolded at such an incredible pace that there was no opportunity to stop it. At Black Hat USA 2026, the concept that the attack happened at lightning speed was dispelled. And attributing the issue simply to a rogue agent also seems inappropriate to me: this was a human failing to control the AI agents involved."
ESET: Black Hat USA 2026: What the Hugging Face hack tells us about human responsibility https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/black-hat-usa-2026-hugging-face-hack-human-responsibility/ @ESETresearch #infosec #Huggingface #bots #OpenAI
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Finally, some common sense.
"We’re also conditioned to assume that the speed of AI probably means that this attack unfolded at such an incredible pace that there was no opportunity to stop it. At Black Hat USA 2026, the concept that the attack happened at lightning speed was dispelled. And attributing the issue simply to a rogue agent also seems inappropriate to me: this was a human failing to control the AI agents involved."
ESET: Black Hat USA 2026: What the Hugging Face hack tells us about human responsibility https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/black-hat-usa-2026-hugging-face-hack-human-responsibility/ @ESETresearch #infosec #Huggingface #bots #OpenAI
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Barracuda, posted yesterday: AI-related software vulnerabilities: 2025–2026 https://blog.barracuda.com/2026/08/12/ai-related-software-vulnerabilities--2025-2026 #infosec #vulnerability #bots
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Barracuda, posted yesterday: AI-related software vulnerabilities: 2025–2026 https://blog.barracuda.com/2026/08/12/ai-related-software-vulnerabilities--2025-2026 #infosec #vulnerability #bots
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Locating every location I can locate.
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Locating every location I can locate.
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The most famous jazz cliché ever.
https://botwiki.org/bot/the-lick/
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The most famous jazz cliché ever.
https://botwiki.org/bot/the-lick/
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Did you know that Wikipedia collects interesting facts?
