human actions have “entropy” that is hard to spoof, Ghosemajumder says. Google’s own CAPTCHA team is thinking along similar lines. The latest version, reCaptcha v3, announced late last year ...

One question asks, “This captcha is too hard,” to which Google answers, “Don’t worry. Some captchas are hard. Just click the reload button next to the image to get another one.” ...

If those bothersome CAPTCHA prompts online seem to be getting harder, it’s because they are. The pesky puzzles are used to ward off bots that crash sites or jeopardize security but now are ...

Before we even open a browser and run into a captcha challenge, we perform numerous actions on our phones and computers—like unlocking them with our faces—that are hard for a bot to imitate.

“I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.” Convinced, the TaskRabbit employee solved the CAPTCHA for the would-be Chat-fis ...

Similar to the volunteers in Acartürk’s study, hackers using such low-level bots might give up and move on if they don’t get past a hard CAPTCHA after a couple of tries. “So, they are still ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Amanda Fennell, a cybersecurity expert, about CAPTCHA tests that verify if a website visitor is human or bot. They are getting harder. Just sec here. I'm trying to ...

You might also wonder if these things are getting harder — maybe too hard for people with aging eyes and brains. The CAPTCHA was created at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. The name is short ...