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Google is now asking for your video selfie to prove who you are
Google wants a video of your face. And this week it started asking for it on its own home page. The prompt sits at the bottom of the…
xAI Loses Again to Minnesota’s Nudification Law, and the Fight Drags On
Up to $500,000. That’s what Minnesota can fine a platform every single time someone accesses one sexual deepfake, and a viral image means that number multiplies fast. xAI…
Stop trusting the animal videos in your feed [2026]
Mibbby Butler thought she’d found her cat. In April, a stranger texted her a photo of Brooklyn sitting on a kitchen counter, wrapped in a girl’s arms, four…
They Gave Their Careers to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Arrived
Luis DeSantiago found out he’d been turned into a deepfake while pouring coffee. It was March 12. The substitute teacher from Los Banos, California was working his other…
AI is remaking cybersecurity fast, and it’s terrifying
Phishing emails used to get clicked about 12 percent of the time. Point a language model at the same job and that number climbs to 52 percent in…
Interpol: AI is now the “core operational driver of cybercrime” in Africa
Reported cybercrime losses in Africa didn’t creep up last year. They went from $192 million to $484 million, more than double, and Interpol’s new report puts a specific…
