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A Kolkata shop owner heard a voice she'd known for years and sent money fast. It wasn't that person. Here's the simple pause that beats AI voice cloning.
A report says nearly 50 apps that make sexual deepfakes were pushed through TikTok ads. TikTok says the examples weren't ads. Either way, a familiar feed is not
A shopper was thrown out of a UK store after a face-match alert said she'd stolen meat. She says she hadn't been there in months. Here's why an alert isn't proo
Hong Kong police plan to turn on facial recognition across their camera network this month. With 60,000 cameras targeted by 2028, the real question is what happ
One in 15 Australian adults has been hit by AI-made fake images, and cloned voices are now a fraud tool. Here is what that means for the next call you get.
A camera can flag your face without proving you did anything wrong. Western Australia just scanned almost 1.4 million faces, and the lesson applies far beyond P
Utah is now enforcing age checks on adult websites. Before you hand over an ID or a selfie, here is the one question to ask: what does this site keep, and for h
UK police are being told to point facial recognition cameras at wanted criminals only. A limit on who they hunt isn't the same as an answer about everyone else'
Your login can be rock solid and still lose to a phone call. Here's why account recovery has become the soft spot a deepfake can exploit, and what to ask your b
Three men are charged in a $129 million scheme built on cloned voices. The same trick works on grandparents and parents, and there's a 30-second defense.
Hong Kong police are turning on AI face matching across their street cameras this month. Here is what a "match" really means, and the questions worth asking bef
A Western Australia police trial scanned 1.38 million faces and led to 122 arrests. It also produced nine incorrect alerts, which is why a face match should be
