Starting in June, every PlayStation account in the U.K. and Ireland will require an age check to use voice chat, messaging, or any communication feature. Sony's giving players three options. A facial

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In March, a political action committee ran a deepfake ad against a Democratic Senate candidate in Texas. The A.I.-generated version of that candidate spoke convincingly for over a minute. Not a few s

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Three out of four people now say they're more worried about their personal data than they were five years ago. And only seventeen percent fully trust the companies holding that data. So every time a

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A bill moving through Congress right now would require you to prove your age before you can fully use your phone. Not just to download an app. To activate the operating system itself.

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Six times in two years. India's government tried to force smartphone makers to pre-install its national biometric I.D. app on every phone sold in the country. Six times, Apple and Samsung said no.

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Only one in a thousand people can reliably tell a deepfake from the real thing. Not one in ten. Not one in a hundred. One in a thousand. And the reason isn't

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One hundred and seventy-nine prisoners walked out of jails across England and Wales between April of last year and March of this year. Not through tunnels. Not over walls. Staff released them by mist

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A kit that costs about twelve dollars on Telegram can now fool the identity checks most banks use to verify you're a real person. Twelve dollars. That's less than a movie ticket.

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The last time you took a selfie to verify your identity on an app, you probably thought the system was doing one thing — checking whether your face matched your photo. It wasn't. Before that match ev

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The European Commission declared its age verification app ready to roll out across the entire bloc. Security researchers broke through its core protections in about two minutes. Not two hours. Not tw

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