Breach of high-profile accounts raises concerns about reliance on AI for security measures such as passwords Hackers used Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to infiltrate high-profile Instagram ...

Federal prosecutors ripped down hundreds of artificial intelligence-generated phony social media accounts used by Russian operatives to create a "bot farm" that spread lies and pro-Vladimir Putin ...

An OpenAI engineer’s AI trading bot on X accidentally tipped a user roughly $450,000 worth of Lobstar memecoins instead of 4 solana (SOL). The recipient sold the coin stash, pocketing $40,000 in ...

More than 100 years ago Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya found himself trapped in a loop of social awkwardness. A professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he enjoyed ...

A Python-based malware family known as VVS stealer has been observed using advanced obfuscation and stealth techniques to target Discord users and extract sensitive ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed. “But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as ...

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai. Until last week, the platform that runs ...

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If your name gets picked for jury duty, it’s because a computer used a random number generator to select it. The same goes for tax audits or when you opt for a quick pick lottery ticket. But how can ...