In another, you're in an Australian police station. A Chinese police officer's shirt hangs in one corner. Motivational ...

Researchers uncovered a sophisticated citation mill using large language models to rephrase legitimate research on preprint ...

In truth, a lot of malware doesn't look like anything at all. A virus, for example, tries its best to hide from view while infecting other files and computers. A bot sits quietly on your computer ...

Australia is facing a wave of misinformation and disinformation on climate change and energy. This is being fuelled by the growth in artificial intelligence and allowed to spread freely on social ...

Fake badges, real danger — the FBI is on alert and needs your help stopping imposters posing as federal agents. The bureau is warning the public to be alert for those cammers, who use convincing ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

The spread of fake photos of the Iran war is helping make the question Is this real? all but unanswerable. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Iranian Press Center / AFP / Getty. In short: The day ...

Until recently, the inner workings of these compounds were mysterious, pieced together by investigators from the testimony of escapees. But late last year, the Thai military took control of a major ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, social media was littered with crude fakes that were presented as fresh images of the war but were either photoshopped phonies or mislabeled clips taken from ...

You may think you can spot a crypto scam from a mile away. But what if the pitch comes from what looks like an official Google AI assistant, answering your questions in real time and showing projected ...

EXCLUSIVE: Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge and Sony Pictures are developing a feature film adaptation of Lynn Painter’s New York Times’ best-selling book, Fake Skating. This will be the first book from the ...

A phishing campaign is using a fake Google Account security page to deliver a web-based app capable of stealing one-time passcodes, harvesting cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and proxying attacker ...