Weekly roundup exploring how cyber threats, AI misuse, and digital deception are reshaping global security trends.

Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial intelligence ...

A screenshot of a Facebook profile that social media posts have claimed belongs to one of the alleged gunmen who attacked ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...

I traveled through airports and reported in sports stadiums this year. At each, I was asked to scan my face for security. An AI security camera demo at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the fall, my ...

Professor in Modern History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, King's College London When he saw the newspaper headlines in 2002, James Partridge was furious. Severely burned in a fire at 18, he spent ...

New homes are rising across Lee County, built under Florida's strict hurricane codes. However, with Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts recorded at more than 250 miles per hour, questions are swirling ...

Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve of a lip, the angle of a nose, the breadth of a jaw—diverge in endlessly ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

If you thought your credit score was invasive, just wait until companies are judging you based on your mug alone. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would ask such a question, but here we are anyway. The ...

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...