Cybersecurity

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    Judge hits Chinese crypto scammer who helped swindle $37 million from U.S. victims with 46-month sentence

    The fraudster was part of a ring that carried out a scam known as pig butchering.

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    January 28, 2026

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    America hacked Venezuela’s grid to literally turn off the lights on Jan. 3. It could happen here, too

    By Saman Zonouz and The Conversation
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    Denmark offered to trade Greenland to the U.S. in 1910—and America thought it was crazy

    By Steven Lamy and The Conversation
    January 22, 2026
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    January 21, 2026
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    NeurIPS, one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims

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    January 21, 2026
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    Mass texts and EZ-Pass phishing: $17 billion stolen in crypto scams, largely by the Chinese

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    January 20, 2026
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    I oversee a lab where engineers try to destroy my life’s work. It’s the only way to prepare for quantum threats

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    January 18, 2026
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    A filmmaker deepfaked Sam Altman for his movie about AI. Then things got personal

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    January 16, 2026
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    January 15, 2026
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    Teachers decry AI as brain-rotting junk food for kids: ‘Students can’t reason. They can’t think. They can’t solve problems’

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    January 15, 2026
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    If your phone is on SOS (and you can see this), yes, Verizon is having a major outage across the U.S.

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    January 14, 2026
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    Consumers lost $12.5 billion to fraud last year, and AI-powered scams are set to explode in 2026, Experian warns

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    January 13, 2026
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    Grok blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia as sexual deepfake scandal builds

    By Eileen Ng, Edna Tarigan and The Associated Press
    January 12, 2026
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    U.K. investigation into X over allegedly illegal deepfakes risks igniting a free speech battle with the U.S.

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    January 12, 2026
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    Lawmakers and victims criticize the choice to limit Grok’s AI image generation to paid users as ‘insulting’ and ‘not effective’

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    January 9, 2026
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    Mass shootings on campus give rise to a new kind of life-saving service journalism: an anonymous message board called Sidechat

    By Leah Willingham and The Associated Press
    January 8, 2026
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    Exclusive: Invictus-backed cybersecurity company ThreatModeler acquires competitor IriusRisk for over $100 million

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    January 8, 2026
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    Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher

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    January 8, 2026
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    January 3, 2026
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    Betty Boop and Blondie join Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain

    By Andrew Dalton and The Associated Press
    January 2, 2026
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    Feds are hunting teenage hacking groups like ‘Scattered Spider’ who have targeted $1 trillion worth of the Coins2Day 500 since 2022

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    January 1, 2026
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    OpenAI is hiring a ‘head of preparedness’ with a $550,000 salary to mitigate AI dangers that CEO Sam Altman warns will be ‘stressful’

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    December 29, 2025
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    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
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    Ex-Palantir turned politician Alex Bores says AI deepfakes are a ‘solvable problem’ if we bring back a free, decades-old technique

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    December 27, 2025
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    Cybersecurity

    2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’

    By Siwei Lyu and The Conversation
    December 27, 2025
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    Trump administration bars 5 prominent Europeans from the U.S., accusing them of pressuring tech firms to ‘censor’ American speech

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    December 24, 2025
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    OpenAI says prompt injections that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas may never be fully ‘solved’—experts say risks are ‘a feature not a bug’

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    December 23, 2025
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    Notorious crypto con man Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates

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    December 22, 2025
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    13-year-old girl attacked a boy showing an AI-generated nude image of her. She was expelled

    By Heather Hollingsworth, Jack Brook and The Associated Press
    December 22, 2025
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    It’s starting to look like we’ll never come up with a good way to tell what was written by AI and what was written by humans

    By Ambuj Tewari and The Conversation
    December 22, 2025
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    ‘He blew this case right open’: Reddit tipster identified only as ‘John’ had a strange encounter at Brown University

    By Kimberlee Kruesi and The Associated Press
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