According to what's known as "dead internet theory"—once a fringe idea that has gained traction in recent years—data science researchers now estimate that a significant portion of Internet traffic, as ...

Yesterday, the changes to Portal to prevent XP farms started rolling out in Battlefield 6. Designed as part of a progression rejig, the alterations are meant to disincentivize and prevent people using ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

The operators of the SystemBC proxy botnet are hunting for vulnerable commercial virtual private servers (VPS) and maintain an average of 1,500 bots every day that provide a highway for malicious ...

TL;DR: Battlefield 6 beta will feature AI bots filling empty server slots to ensure full matches, similar to Battlefield 2042. While this supports large player engagement, previous bot imbalances ...

Karan is a writer at DualShockers. Having been gaming since he was 5 years old, his passion for it still remains the same. He has a knack for finding patterns in games and that is why he enjoys ...

Developer DICE during the Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal event in Hong Kong was asked about the use of bots in the game. "The way the game uses AI [bots] is that when the server is not full, AI ...

DICE has revealed during a Battlefield 6 multiplayer event in Hong Kong recently that bots will “backfill” its servers if there’s not enough players to fill a match. Developer Battlefield Studios, ...

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai. Until last week, the platform that runs ...

Third Person Shooters Arc Raiders GOTY advocate and former FPS pro Shroud threatens to quit the game due to cheaters Third Person Shooters Arc Raiders left with a grand question after sacrificing ...