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That "live" video call where someone blinks, turns their head, and answers your questions in real time? A deepfake can do all of that now — on command. The old trick of asking someone to blink to prove they're real? Attac

That confident ninety-five percent face match? The number that decides whether a suspect gets flagged? It might have been graded by faces that don't exist. Fake faces. Computer-generated people who were never born — and t

When the L.A. Clippers opened their new arena, the team expected about a third of fans to walk in using their face instead of a ticket. By the end of the season, three out of four fans were doing it.

A message hits your phone. It says your bank account will close in two hours. All you have to do is click one link to save it. That two-hour timer? It's not real. There's no countdown clock at your bank. It's a button des

For most of your life, a government clerk pressed your fingers onto an ink pad — one at a time — and a human being decided whether the smudge was good enough. That era is quietly ending. And what's re

That fingerprint scanner at your office door? It doesn't actually know who you are. Nobody programmed it to recognize you. Someone just set a dial — a hidden number — that decides whether you're close enough to get in.

That little green checkmark that says "Verified"? Depending on which system put it there, it could be wrong more than seventy-six percent of the time. According to a twenty twenty-five U.S. Homeland S

The regulator whose job is to police TikTok just opened an investigation into whether TikTok can actually tell how old you are. And in the middle of that investigation, TikTok started selling alcohol.

To sell your old couch on Facebook Marketplace, you might soon have to take a selfie. Not a photo of the couch — a photo of your face. And Facebook wants to scan it to prove you're a real human being.

A group of security officials made the same admission last year. They said they'd yet to meet a single Fortune Five Hundred company that hadn't accidentally hired a North Korean tech worker. Not one.