58,000 students must retake an entrance exam after AI supervision fails. The entrance exam is for UNAM, Mexico's largest university. The exam was administered remotely using AI to monitor for cheating. The unusually high scores indicate that widespread cheating did take place, and the university will administer a new exam in person. The university apologizes to the honest applicants who will have to take the test again. (Ars Technica)
Time, the media company, has redesigned ads for AI agents. When an AI agent visits a Time webpage, Time serves the agent Markdown content instead of standard HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Agent-specific ads are injected into the Markdown. Bot traffic to publishers is growing rapidly and now outnumbers human traffic. This is dramatically increasing cloud bills, so publishers have to find a way to monetize the traffic. (Digiday)
Several popular Samsung smart TV apps are actually part of a botnet. These include a game that Samsung promoted as an Editor's Choice. The apps contain code that allows outside web traffic to tunnel through the TV, turning the TV into a residential proxy exit node. Residential proxies are a popular way to enable denial-of-service attacks and other malicious internet activity. Samsung is now trying to identify and ban these apps. (TechCrunch)