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

Brace yourselves, for your cozy little conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT are about to be stuffed with ads. At least, that’s the findings of a software engineer who dug through the code of an ...

On the computer screen, a campy-looking pirate jiggles his left leg impatiently, swigging occasionally from a tumbler of rum. In front of him, dark skies pour rain above a swirling sea. The pirate ...

The technology is used by more than 70% of teenagers in the U.S. Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having ...

Cybersecurity researchers have identified several malicious packages across npm, Python, and Ruby ecosystems that leverage Discord as a command-and-control (C2) channel to transmit stolen data to ...

Talking to an AI chatbot in less formal language, as many people do, reduces the accuracy of its responses – suggesting that either we need to be linguistically stricter when using a chatbot, or that ...

Chatbots want to be your friend, when what you really need is a neutral perspective. By Simar Bajaj Emily Willrich, 23, and her roommate had found the perfect apartment: spacious, reasonably priced ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...

State and federal law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that young people were at risk of radicalization on the chat platform Discord, according to government documents obtained by NBC ...

FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the investigation into the assassination of conservative speaker Charlie Kirk has expanded, with the bureau looking at numerous individuals who may have ...

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk last week, allegedly confessed to fatally shooting the conservative activist in an online Discord chat group. “Hey guys, I have ...