US ‘swatting’ pranks stoke alarm in election year
Startled by nighttime pounding on his door, American political strategist Rick Wilson walked out in his underwear to find policemen…
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Japan doctors sue Google Maps over ‘punching bag’ reviews
Around 60 doctors in Japan have accused Google Maps of ignoring vitriolic reviews of their clinics in a class-action lawsuit…
Cisco’s plan for keeping AI systems safe from attack: Using AI
Cisco Systems Inc is embracing a new approach to protecting artificial intelligence computing systems: using AI itself to keep them…
Meta’s newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users
Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems Thursday that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
Apple pulls WhatsApp from China app store on Beijing request
Apple Inc said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order…
The quick, cheap, easy process of building an AI-generated disinformation website
For just over a hundred dollars and in just two days, an American journalist managed to set up a fully…
3,000-member revenge porn group had underage victims, US officials say. Creator arrested
Police have arrested the creator of a revenge porn group that contained victims from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas officials…
AI-generated child pornography is circulating. This US prosecutor wants to make it illegal.
After several reports of artificial intelligence-generated child pornography surfaced in California, Ventura County Dist. Atty. Erik Nasarenko advocated for a…
Study links excessive Internet use to teen school absence risk
From TV and games consoles to smartphones and computers, parents and specialists are worried about the effects of screens on…