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Roblox is reportedly moving toward national ID checks for age verification, a sign that "enter your birthday" is dying across the internet, and your family's ID

A cloned voice that sounds exactly like your mom, your son, your sister is now enough to empty a bank account. Here's what's happening to remittance money, and

A retired Australian psychologist lost $180,000 to an AI girlfriend named "Melanie", who had six fingers in every video call. His story shows why obvious red fl

A man accused of making deepfakes of students told police it felt "like X-ray vision." Here's what that case reveals about who's actually at risk, and what the

Czech police opened 35 criminal cases in six months over AI-made intimate images. Here's what that number really tells us, and what it means for you.

UK police are rolling out live facial-recognition vans from ten to fifty, scanning millions of faces with no specific law on the books yet, and independent rese

The Philippines just got Meta to promise faster deepfake takedowns and child-abuse evidence access. Sounds great, until you ask what "faster" actually means onc

Bank Negara Malaysia had to publicly deny its own governor was in a viral fight video, proof that even trusted financial faces can be faked, and no one's coming

The Philippines got Meta to promise faster deepfake removals and child-abuse data access, but a promise to act quickly isn't the same as stopping the fake befor

Audio deepfakes just became the #1 AI impersonation scam, and all it takes is three seconds of your voice to clone it. Here's what to actually do about it.

Maria Shriver says AI deepfake ads are using her face and name to sell Alzheimer's supplements she never endorsed, a scam that's already cost victims hundreds o

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse are suing over claims that their images helped train Grok's deepfake features, a case that exposes exactly why deepfake legi