Automated purchasing bots, also known as “sneaker bots,” “click bots,” “Instacart bots,” and other names, are ruining the online shopping and gig economy experience for both consumers and workers.

FARGO — Buying sneakers isn’t what it used to be. The days of visiting a shoe store the day of a long-awaited release, waiting in line to grab the right size and interacting with a salesperson are ...

Sneaker bots are more widespread than ever, and it looks like Nike might have the only effective way to stop them. "I can tell you with 100 percent confidence, any non-lottery site is bottable," ...

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Jason Kent, hacker-in-residence at Cequence Security, discusses fake online accounts, and the fraud they carry out on a daily basis. Recently, one of my friends from my submarine days sent me a friend ...

With the "Space Jam" Air Jordan XIs re-releasing this month, there’s been a lot of nostalgia for 2009. Not only is it the last time that particular Jordan dropped, it was also arguably the year that ...

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Around the time that dedicated collectors started pitching tents outside sneakers stores, winding so far down the block that police sometimes felt it necessary to shut the whole thing down, sneakers ...