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A research team has discovered that artificial intelligence can impersonate public figures in ways that feel more authentic to ordinary people than the real politicians themselves. Scientists created AI versions of statements from 112 public figures and tested them against actual statements from those same people. The result was consistent and troubling: people rated the […]

Apple’s Hide My Email service contains a security flaw that allows attackers to discover users’ actual email addresses, defeating the entire purpose of the paid privacy feature. According to a security researcher who reported the vulnerability to 404 Media, the system that was supposed to keep people’s real emails hidden can be exploited by people

Major technology companies including Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and Citi are quietly implementing restrictions on how much artificial intelligence their employees can use. According to 404 Media, internal leaks and sources reveal that companies are introducing daily usage caps, requiring pre-approval for AI requests, or moving workers to slower, cheaper AI models. The reason is straightforward:

The Supreme Court has issued a decisive warning to India’s legal profession: stop citing court judgments that artificial intelligence has invented. In a recent judgment, the court held that advocates who cite fake or hallucinated judicial precedents without verification are guilty of professional misconduct. The bench adopted a “zero-tolerance” approach toward this practice, making clear

Tidal, the music streaming service that built its reputation by promising fairer payments to musicians, has announced a new policy: it will not pay royalties for AI-generated music uploaded to its platform. The announcement comes as the music industry races to understand how artificial intelligence will reshape how songs are created, distributed and monetized. Unlike

Security researchers have found a new way to trick artificial intelligence chatbots into giving dangerous information they are designed to refuse. The researchers manipulated the AI systems by creating fake role models and asking the chatbots to behave like them, bypassing safety guardrails built into the systems. The findings were reported by technology publication The

Apple’s unreleased iPhone 18 Pro specifications and supplier information have surfaced online following a data breach at Tata, one of India’s largest conglomerates. The leaked files carried Apple’s confidential watermarks and internal code-names consistent with the iPhone 18 Pro generation, according to sources familiar with the matter. The documents reveal which companies supply components for

The European Union has introduced a ban on AI-generated sexual deepfakes, classifying them as high-risk technology that poses serious threats to people’s safety and dignity. A deepfake is synthetic media created using artificial intelligence to make someone appear in videos or images they never actually appeared in. The EU’s new rules specifically target sexual deepfakes,

India’s payments regulator is deploying artificial intelligence to catch fraud before money leaves bank accounts. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which runs the UPI system that handles most digital payments in the country, has started using AI tools to spot suspicious transaction patterns in real time. UPI processes over 10 billion transactions every

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a dangerous malware campaign targeting Indian taxpayers through fake income tax notices. Hackers are creating fraudulent emails and messages that appear to come from the Income Tax Department, complete with official-looking logos and language. When recipients click links in these notices, they are directed to websites that replicate the real income