We see the popular "captcha" security mechanism often - wavy letters websites ask us to type into a box. It's used by web pages and newsletter sign-up forms to prevent computer robots from hacking ...

Seeing as the CAPTCHA tests aim to tell computers apart from humans, the name basically means “automatic bot detector”. That ...

If you are using the Internet, to prevent access from malicious programs (bots) trying to log in for unauthorized useCAPTCHAYou should have seen the message "I am not a robot" at the site where ...

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You have probably seen Captchas - puzzles that ask you to pick out all the bicycles in an image or to decipher letters that are written in squiggly lines. These riddles are designed to let you buy ...

If those bothersome CAPTCHA prompts online seem to be getting harder, it’s because they are. The pesky puzzles are used to ward off bots that crash sites or jeopardize security but now are becoming ...

We've all been there: You click on a website and are immediately directed to respond to a series of puzzles requiring you to identify images of buses, bicycles and traffic lights before you can go any ...

What sounds like a plot twist ripped straight from a sci-fi thriller has just happened with a user of ChatGPT. According to a Reddit user, while using OpenAI's latest version of ChatGPT Pro which now ...

Digital proof of personhood offers a path out of the arms race between bots and CAPTCHAs, argues Daniel Brunsdon of human.tech.

Captcha the Robot became the first humanoid to teach at a German high school on Dec. 17. Hidoba Research created Captcha, a multilingual, customizable, and socially interactive robot. A high school in ...

When you log on to a site or go to buy something online, you may be asked to prove you're not a robot. Those tests are called ...