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To watch a movie clip online, or scroll a social feed, you might soon have to prove you're an adult — by handing over a government I.D. And if you live in one of about twenty-five U.S. states, that's already becoming the

A student went on a school trip, took ordinary photos of a teacher, and turned them into fake explicit images using an app on his phone. No hacking. No stolen passwords. Just class-trip snapshots and a free tool that does

That box where you type in your birthday to get into an app? A court just decided it's basically worthless. Meta agreed to a settlement that says a self-reported birthday no longer counts as proof of age. And for the firs

You just held your phone up to your face. It scanned you, blinked a green checkmark, and confirmed — yes, that's really you, live, in person, not a photo or a deepfake. Ninety seconds later, your loan application got denied. So how can a syst

Federal agencies can search more than six hundred forty million driver's license photos held by state motor vehicle departments — and in many cases, they don't need a warrant to do it. If you have a driver's license, your

A child can type a fake birthday and walk straight past Australia's strictest online safety law. That's the same law that threatens websites with fines of nearly fifty million dollars. The rule exists

Police say a Bentonville photographer used an everyday A.I. chatbot to turn ordinary portraits of his young clients into child sexual abuse images. The photos he started with were legal. The tool he a

More than a million Australian kids between the ages of eight and twelve got onto social media they were never supposed to see. How? The platforms just asked them to check a box that said "I'm old eno

Belgium built a national identity card with a cryptographic chip. Unbreakable math. And researchers found a way around it anyway — not by cracking the chip, but by exploiting the software that read the card. The credentia

The face scan at the airport gate takes about two seconds. But according to the Department of Homeland Security's own final rule, if you're not a U.S. citizen, the photo taken in that moment can sit in a federal database

A group of everyday listeners sat down and tried to tell real human voices apart from A.I. fakes. They got it right only about a third of the time. That means most people — even people paying close attention — cannot trus

A retired psychologist in Australia spent months falling in love with a nurse named Melanie. He sent her a hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Melanie was never real — and the first clue was the six

Two out of three organizations right now can't tell whether a human or a machine made a decision inside their own systems. That's from a survey of companies already using A.I. agents — sixty-eight percent have no reliable

When you scan your face to prove who you are, that scan doesn't have to be saved. Not for a day. Not for a second. And India's government just made that distinction official policy — they kept mandatory face verification for phone customers,

In the Czech Republic, police opened thirty-five criminal cases in just six months. All of them tied to fake, sexual images made or shared without consent. And in more than half the cases where police

The next time you throw up a peace sign in a group photo, look at where the camera is standing. According to Germany's federal cybersecurity agency, if your fingertips are facing the lens from about five feet away, that i

A single fake image of a public figure was seen more than forty seven million times before anyone took it down. Not forty seven thousand. Forty seven million. By the time it disappeared, the damage wa

The governor of Malaysia's central bank had to sit in front of a camera and prove he was a real person. Because scammers had made a fake video of him — one where he got into a physical fight with a guest. Overturned furni

Someone can steal your wallet, walk up to a border kiosk with your perfectly genuine identity card, and that card will pass its first security check without a single alarm going off. The chip inside is real. The signature

Somebody can steal your house without ever setting foot on your street. They don't need a crowbar or a key. They just need a piece of paper, a signature that looks close enough, and the address of your county recorder's o

A woman in her sixties saw Maria Shriver on her screen, recommending a honey-based cure for Alzheimer's. She clicked. Within ten days, her credit card had been charged more than five hundred dollars — for a subscription she couldn't cancel, f

A woman learned that the abuse she survived as a child — abuse the F.B.I. has tracked since she was in preschool — was fed into an artificial intelligence system decades later. Not to catch anyone. To teach a machine how

Six seconds. That's how long it took, in a demonstrated attack, for someone to log into a Google account and register their own device as a trusted key. The password change that came later? Didn't mat

A truck driver walked into a Reno casino with a wallet full of I.D. — his Nevada license, his player card, his union card, even a pay stub. None of it mattered. A facial recognition system said he was

A California widow lost at least two hundred eighty-seven thousand dollars to a man she never met. He appeared on video calls. He had a face, a voice, a job — he claimed to run the U.S. Naval Academy.