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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A security researcher walked into the R.S.A.C. conference in twenty twenty-six wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Within seconds, those glasses — paired with a commercial facial recognition system — identified

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Seventy thousand people uploaded photos of their government I.D.s to Discord. They weren't applying for a job or opening a bank account. They were just trying to prove they were eighteen.

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A wireless carrier just launched a service that clones your voice and places calls from your real phone number. Not a research demo. Not a startup pitch deck. A

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In April of this year, a man in Ohio became the first person convicted under the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act. He'd used A.I. to generate non-consensual intimate images of adults and children in his own neighborhood.

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The European Union launched a brand-new age verification app on 04-14-2026 . Someone bypassed it in under two minutes. Not with a sophisticated hack. N

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In 2024 , a finance employee at Arup, a major U.K. engineering firm, joined a video call with several senior leaders. Every face on screen looked right.

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A finance worker in Hong Kong got a phishing email claiming to be from his company's chief financial officer in the U.K. He didn't buy it. Then he joined a video call, saw the C.F.O.'s face, saw othe

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Sixty percent of people say they're confident they can spot a deepfake. According to a 2024 study cited by Florida Realtors, only zero point one percent actually can. That means the people who feel m

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A finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. He recognized their faces. He heard their voices. Over the course of th

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