Browsing: crime

The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims…

One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months.A 2018 child-luring…

A civil litigation case against eBay, filed by the founders of a Massachusetts-based news site that covers ecommerce, has just…

More than two dozen suspected new scam compounds in war-torn Myanmar have been built or expanded significantly in the past…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys designed…

Apple and Google have been ordered to take down apps that can “nudify” or “undress” people and told that they…

Top of the Ticker: Thursday’s edition of NBC News’ morning show, Today, appeared to run smoothly, but behind the scenes,…

Most mainstream social media platforms have strict guidelines preventing the dissemination of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), or sexually explicit photos…

Just after noon on a Saturday last month, a Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered about 200 feet over a San Francisco…

Adult content creator Laura Lux says she has been publishing pictures of herself online for almost two decades. She primarily…

A WIRED investigation this week offers insight into a predictive policing program in Bristol, England that has involved 23 separate…

For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of podcasts that advertised illegal online pharmacies. A…

A Florida man was wrongfully arrested for attempting to illegally lure a child after police relied on a face recognition…

Musk also shared a video from far-right British agitator Tommy Robinson calling on people to gather outside Southampton Central Police…

A right-wing think tank responsible for the emergence of zero-tolerance policing in 1990s New York City and the Trump administration’s…

I’ve been covering spam calling for years, so when Google offered me details about a new Android feature built to…