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You walked into a Wegmans this year, picked up your groceries, and a camera turned your face into a string of numbers. You were never told. Wegmans admitted it — a handful of its stores were using facial recognition, quie

Last month in Perth, Australia, a police van drove down public streets and scanned the faces of everyone who walked past. In one week, it captured more than a hundred and thirty thousand faces. And th

There's a piece of malware called GoldPickaxe that doesn't want your password. It wants a video of your face. And once it has that, there's nothing you can do to take it back — because unlike a passwo

The next time you walk into a Grocery Outlet in the Bay Area, a camera may scan your face before you even touch a shopping basket. You won't get a warning. You won't sign anything. And in California, the store doesn't hav

Fifty million phones were carrying finished facial-recognition code — and almost nobody who installed the app knew it was there. It could spot a face. It could turn that face into a string of numbers. It could match that

Anthropic just started asking people to upload a photo of their driver's license before they can use Claude — their A.I. chatbot. No regulation forced them to do it. They chose to, before anyone made

That video of Erling Haaland staring at himself in a restaurant mirror — the one that racked up thirty-one million views on X in just a few days? It was fake. The footage came from a Chinese comedy sk

Twenty photos. That's all it takes. According to reporting from Social Ketchup and other outlets covering Meta's new tools, twenty pictures pulled from a kid's social feed are enough to build a thirty-second deepfake video — the kind used for

A teacher's video went viral across India. People argued for days about whether it was real or made by artificial intelligence. It turned out to be real. But the fight over "is this fake?" — that argu

The next time your payment app asks you to verify your identity, that request might be the most dangerous message you'll ever tap. In South Korea, three of the biggest payment apps just got the government's permission to

Someone tried to break into a bank account using a high-quality photo of the real customer's face. They held it up to the camera, hoping to fool the system. The system caught it instantly — and locked

That little box asking for your birthday? The one where you type in a date and click enter? It never actually checked anything. You could type in any year you wanted, and the website just took your word for it.

That little box that pops up around your face when your phone camera opens? It didn't recognize you. It has no idea who you are. All it did was notice that something in the frame is shaped like a face. And I think most o

That video of a famous investor telling you about a guaranteed A.I. trading system? It might be part of a network of more than fifteen thousand fake websites. All built by one criminal ring — and desi

Two hundred people walked through the streets of San Francisco on a Saturday. Their destination? The front doors of the biggest A.I. companies on earth. Their demand? Stop building.

There's a study from twenty twenty-five that stopped me cold. According to researchers at Resemble A.I., when people listened to a cloned voice and a real one, they picked correctly only fifty-two percent of the time. That's a coin flip. Your

The same facial recognition on your phone that unlocks your screen — and the kind that scans a crowd looking for a face — are treated completely differently under Europe's new A.I. law. One barely registers. The other car

The password you use to check your Social Security benefits? The federal government is phasing it out. And the thing replacing it doesn't just ask what you know — it watches how you type, checks your face, and decides in

A twelve-year-old drew eyebrow pencil above his lip. The age-check software looked at him and decided he was fifteen. That's it. That's the whole hack — a homemade moustache beat a system built to keep kids off adult platforms.

Picture this. You apply for a job. An A.I. system reads your application and says no. And under a new Illinois law, a human being now has to tell you why. If you've ever sent a

Your eye holds more than two hundred and forty measurable features. Your fingerprint? Maybe sixty or seventy. And yet, your bank almost certainly asks for your thumb — not your eye. Why?

When an older person squints at a face and says "I know I've seen you somewhere," we assume the memory's fading. But new research says that's the wrong culprit. The problem isn't that the memory disap

In India, one photograph showed up on more than nine different phone accounts. Sometimes on a thousand accounts. And when the government's A.I. finished matching those faces, it cut off more than fift

Austrian police can now capture all ten of your fingerprints using nothing more than a smartphone camera — from a few feet away, in under thirty seconds. No ink. No pad. No pressing your hand against a scanner.

That little selfie you take to prove it's really you? A fraudster can beat it without ever pointing a camera at a face. They feed a fake video straight into the app — bypassing the camera completely. And the system happil