#Scams Fraud

20 articles tagged with “Scams Fraud”

Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
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Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer

Watch an exclusive clip from Super Scam Me where a victim tracks down her scammer.…

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YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms
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YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms

The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals.…

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Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence
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Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.…

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Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
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Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.…

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Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases
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Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases

American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mist…

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Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
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Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup

Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse and Be…

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Outstreaming Taylor Swift is easy with 10K bots and AI songs, fraudster admits
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Outstreaming Taylor Swift is easy with 10K bots and AI songs, fraudster admits

Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.…

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US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
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US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.…

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Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
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Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves

Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.…

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"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
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"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.…

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OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
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OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breath of the incidents s alarming.…

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After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action
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After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action

After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small…

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Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite
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Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite

Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam…

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I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
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I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.…

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Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
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Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web

The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.…

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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."…

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Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000
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Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.…

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Its $500 toothbrush disappeared from stores. Dyson won’t fully explain why
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Its $500 toothbrush disappeared from stores. Dyson won’t fully explain why

Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.…

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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.…

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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.…

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