Graphic: Diego Aguirre In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made $20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the most successful spammers on ...

A database of more than 10 million spam email messages collected at just one Internet "spam sinkhole" suggests that Internet service providers could better fight unwanted junk email by addressing it ...

Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet. With the economy sagging and advertisers ...

Spam, the curse of the Internet, has found an annoying replacement: slop. This new practice has emerged with the rise of generative AI and has invaded social networks. But what exactly is slop? As the ...