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@horse_ebooks no spam bot

Sep 24, 2013
The longest running corporate art piece in history? Tweeters spend four years pretending to be a spam-bot, unveiled today as part of gallery show.

Gmail's new inbox sorts spam and bacon

Jul 29, 2013
Google changed its popular free email service Gmail last week. Where once there was one true inbox, now there seems to be three.

Google algorithm inadvertently takes down ring of Chinese car thieves

Jul 25, 2013
Machines are becoming alarmingly intelligent, smart enough to root out crime.

Happy birthday, spam! On what 35 years of spam has gotten us

May 3, 2013
Thirty five years ago today, Gary Thuerk sent out the first spam email. We mark the anniversary by trying to track down a spammer ourselves.
A computer screen inbox displaying spam emails.
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The story of the first email spam message

May 3, 2013
It happened 35 years ago.

For public good, not for profit.

Spam wars clog the Internet

Mar 28, 2013
If you found your Internet surfing coming up slow in recent days, it's possibly because of one of the biggest cyberattacks experts have ever seen.

Call me a spammer? I'll attack the Internet

Mar 27, 2013
Why a site that rents space to just about anyone is attacking vulnerabilities in the basic architecture of the Internet.

Worldwide Internet slows after massive spammer cyberattack

Mar 27, 2013
Internet users around the world have been noticing sluggish responses from even sophisticated computer systems such as Netflix after what's being called the 'world's largest cyberattack.'