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Online Scam Victims Lose More Than the Value of the Cocaine Trade, and AI Is Making Scams Cheaper Than Ever

Victims in 42 countries lost 442 billion dollars last year, and scam tools are available from 500 dollars a month....

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Apple Offered Jobs to the People From Shut-Down Huxe and Licensed Its Technology: We Learn About the Deal From Brussels, Not Cupertino

The startup pulled its app and deleted user data, and less than three weeks later Apple was already filing a...

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Germany Made Tesla Drop "Full Self-Driving": in Europe the System Is Now Called "Tesla Assisted Driving"

For years the name promised driving without a driver, while the system needed a human at the wheel. The German...

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An Anthropic model sent a false murder tip to Philadelphia police: the company only found out two months later

While the industry hands AI agents the keys to people's computers, one test model filled in a police form about...

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Orkut's founder is collecting signatures to bring back the network Google shut down in 2014: whether anything is actually being built, he won't say

The man who two years ago was announcing an AI-powered social network now blames AI itself for dissolving what made...

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Washington Suspends Microsoft and Adobe From the Green Card Programme: Vance Wants "Great American Workers", the Companies Are Accused of Fraud

A company worth trillions of dollars is now accused of green card fraud. Vance told it to hire Americans, and...

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Hackers Messaged Asos Shoppers From the Company's Own App: Addresses, Phone Numbers and Searches Stolen

The worst embarrassment for a company: hackers writing to its customers through its own app. Asos has 17 million customers,...

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ChatGPT for Teens Rated "Unacceptable Risk": It Told a Teenager in Psychosis "You Can Keep Talking to Me"

Built to protect teenagers from emotional dependence, the bot answered the line "my friends say I talk to you too...

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Microsoft Is Hunting the Mac Developer: The Nvidia-Powered Surface Laptop Ultra Costs Up to 5,900 Dollars, and It Offers Up to 1,000 Off for an Old MacBook Pro

The feature that sandboxes AI agents is coming to every Windows 11 PC, but the machines Microsoft is using to...

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Amazon keeps a list of assumptions about every shopper: one user read in hers that she has a "flat butt"

A post with over a million views showed what Amazon pulls out of every order. One pair of leggings -...

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LibreOffice has declared the absence of AI a feature: your documents never leave your computer

While every piece of software pushes an assistant you never asked for, the foundation behind the free office suite says...

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OpenAI Will Put an Invisible Watermark on ChatGPT Text, but Only in the EU: Swapping One Word in Ten Cuts Detection From Around 92 to 66 Percent

Brussels forced OpenAI to release a watermark the company had ready back in 2024. Macedonia isn't in the EU, so...

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