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Digital Fraud Attacks Rise 17% in Financial Services, Driven by Payment and Account Creation Fraud

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In 2023, the financial services industry continued to sustain the most automated bot attacks, with 1.8 the number of bot attacks in the sector decreased by 6% YoY. Automated bot attacks remained stable in 2023 compared with the previous year, though the targets shifted. Despite this high volume.

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Bots And Outside-The-Bots, CES 2019: Payments And Commerce Highlights

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Some of them were a little unconventional and many originate from far outside of the box, but they all might be worth watching to see how they portend the future of how consumers will shop and pay in the not-too-distant future. The bot also offers yoga lessons, as well as the capability to make and send prescription refills.

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European Regulators Expand Scrutiny On Data Practices – And Bots

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For example, firms are banned from using bots in a way that allows them to buy thousands of tickets for events and then resell them for highly marked-up prices. The original rules would have applied to all tech companies, not just larger ones, and would also impact eCommerce , telecom and other tech companies.

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Meet Earny: The Price-Tracking Bot That Pays Back

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A new bot has launched that aims to take the consumer pain out of redeeming post-purchase price protection. Last week, the retail space saw the arrival of Earny, a personal assistant bot that — as a press release explains — automatically tracks users’ purchase history and monitors price adjustments. and Science Inc.,

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Hackers Access Unsecured Facebook Database With 267M Users’ Info 

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Diachenko said he thinks the breach is because of an illegal bot scraping operation or even criminals who figured out how to abuse Facebook’s API. The originators of the database are suspected to be in Vietnam. He believes that the data did not belong to anyone, but was originally stolen by a criminal organization.

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How to build your own Zendesk Answer Bot with LLMs

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A Zendesk Answer Bot, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, can significantly enhance the efficiency and quality of customer support by automating responses. We will build a bot to answer incoming Zendesk tickets while using a custom database of past Zendesk tickets and responses to generate the answer with the help of LLMs.

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Uber Seeks Investors To Launch Startup For Postmates X Delivery Robot

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Temporarily coined Serve Robotics — named for Postmates X’s delivery bot — the autonomous sidewalk robot will likely be the nucleus of the new startup. Postmates started trialing sidewalk delivery bots in 2017 and launched Serve in December 2018, with a commercial rollout planned in Los Angeles. 15), citing sources.

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