Federal prosecutors ripped down hundreds of artificial intelligence-generated phony social media accounts used by Russian operatives to create a "bot farm" that spread lies and pro-Vladimir Putin ...

An OpenAI engineer’s AI trading bot on X accidentally tipped a user roughly $450,000 worth of Lobstar memecoins instead of 4 solana (SOL). The recipient sold the coin stash, pocketing $40,000 in ...

A Python-based malware family known as VVS stealer has been observed using advanced obfuscation and stealth techniques to target Discord users and extract sensitive ...

When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed. “But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as ...

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai. Until last week, the platform that runs ...

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Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok sparked confusion this week as it responded to queries with bizarre mentions of “white genocide” in South Africa — telling some users that it “appears I was instructed to ...

New Jersey is now the first state in the country to sue the online messaging platform Discord. Attorney General Matthew Platkin accuses Discord of misleading parents about its safety features, leaving ...

A malicious package named 'pycord-self' on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens and plant a backdoor for remote control over the system. The ...

While some awards-watchers will be disappointed — Chinese action game Black Myth: Wukong and indie card game Balatro in particular had vocal supporters — it’s a win few will have deep objections to.