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4 of the best robocall-blocking apps and tools for avoiding phone spam

Mashable Tech

They're annoying autodialers at best and illegal scams at worst, and they're part of an ongoing problem the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been trying to crack down on for years. SEE ALSO: Why am I getting so many spam calls? That's why it's become more of a problem for consumers and a more difficult problem to solve."

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My crazy idea to p**s off spammers

The Next Web

The problem with spam is that it is so easy to send a lot of it, and you only need a few fools to buy your stuff to make a buck. For less than $10 you can spam 40 million email addresses. But the fact of the matter is that as we get smarter about filtering spam, spammers get better at reaching more of us, for less money.

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On Alert: Signs that Your WordPress Site Has Been Hacked

Byte Technology

Chances are that if you see this or other problems, your site has been hacked or otherwise compromised. It may have been a large-scale malware attack, or some nefarious lone individual may have inserted files and scripts onto your server or hijacked your site’s emails or search results. Many sites offer users the ability to register.

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Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts

Byte Technology

And while WordPress has some terrific plugins available that can help you create and manage a comment section on your site, too often unforeseen problems and lapses exist that stymie the commenting process. You’ll still effectively block spam, and you’ll be brought into closer interaction with your users.

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QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers

TechCrunch

Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library. Moderation and spam. “This is the use case we’re focused on.”

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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Being Human: Google’s New API Solves an Internet Annoyance

Byte Technology

As long as there have been websites, there have been tools in place to keep those sites safe from spam and hacker abuse. Another problem with the last generation CAPTCHA feature is, in a word, annoyance. It would seem that the traditional CAPTCHA feature, therefore, is no longer a dependable test.

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