Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API
Google released a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model today, specially designed … Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Google's AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini ...
OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that can automate web-based tasks, launching to US subscribers of its $200/month ChatGPT Pro tier
A research preview of an agent that can use its own browser to perform tasks for you. OpenAI on YouTube : Introduction to Operator & Agents David Gewirtz / ZDNET : Operator isn't worth its $200-per-mo...
As software gets better at labeling photos, CAPTCHA designers are adopting more difficult logic-based prompts to thwart nefarious bots
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal : X: @shantharmohan and @dollydeighton . Forums: r/Weird X: @shantharmohan : “I haven't been able to spot 10 [stop]lights in a row. I'm either a robot or a cyclis...
A profile of Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn, who co-created CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, as he predicts AI will eventually make computers better teachers than humans
Carina Chocano / New Yorker : LinkedIn: Charlene Tan , Monica Earle , and Kate Redman Tweets: @nicholasferroni , @pt , @thethirdhan , @chrisdier , @carina_chocano , @clinicalliz , @blgtylr , @brialle...
Cloudflare releases Turnstile, a “privacy-preserving” CAPTCHA alternative that tests the browser, not the user, through JavaScript-based challenges, in beta
The company calls it Turnstile, and it's designed to spare us from performing those mundane click-the-traffic-light kinds …
Microsoft discloses a new attack by Chimborazo, a group that is distributing a malicious Excel document on a site requiring CAPTCHA to evade automated detection
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Cloudflare says it will drop Google's reCAPTCHA bot detection service, as Google plans to charge for its use, and replace it with Intuition Machines' hCAPTCHA
Cloudflare says its moving to hCaptcha, an alternative CAPTCHA service, more private than reCAPTCHA.
As machine learning algorithms get as good as humans at text, image, and speech recognition, Google's CAPTCHA are getting too hard for humans to solve
At some point last year, Google's constant requests to prove I'm human began to feel increasingly aggressive. Tweets: @distributeddave , @charlesflehman , @bozhobg , @_am1t , and @joshdzieza Tweets: D...
Facebook testing new CAPTCHA, asks users to upload a photo of their face to prove they're human, says it will permanently delete pictures after checking
FACEBOOK MAY SOON ask you to “upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face,” to prove you're not a bot.
Google's new invisible reCAPTCHAs automatically distinguish humans from bots, don't need to use a checkbox
Google says it can separate man from machine without any tricky tests or checkboxes. — Google's reCAPTCHA is the leading CAPTCHA service (that's “Completely Automated Public Turing test …