Cybersecurity

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America hacked Venezuela’s grid to literally turn off the lights on Jan. 3. It could happen here, too

Grid modernization has transformed controller devices into sophisticated internet-connected computers.

By Saman Zonouz and The Conversation

January 22, 2026

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Photo: DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - JANUARY 21: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting on January 21, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. The annual meeting of political and business leaders comes amid rising tensions between the United States and Europe over a range of issues, including Trump's vow to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Wall Street celebrates the end of Trump’s Greenland tariff threats and expects the Supreme Court will kill the rest of them

Sir Demis Hassabis photographed on October 29, 2025, at the University College London Fry Telescope:<br />
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Demis Hassabis, and how AI just might wrangle our molecular universe

By Allie Garfinkle

American TikTok is here

By Alexei Oreskovic

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with BlackRock chairman and WEF co-chairman Larry Fink during a reception with business leaders on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026. The World Economic Forum takes place in Davos from January 19 to January 23, 2026. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

The U.S. was ‘the operating system of the world,’ Scott Galloway says, but now ‘the American brand is chaos, corruption, and coercion’

By Diane Brady and Claire Zillman

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A filmmaker deepfaked Sam Altman for his movie about AI. Then things got personal

By Beatrice Nolan

January 16, 2026

A Verizon store in New York, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

Verizon offers $20 account credits for 1.5 million customers outraged by mysterious 10-hour-long service outage. Here’s how to get the credit

By Eva Roytburg

January 15, 2026

Young girl uses AI virtual assistant to do schoolwork.Concept of Artificial Intelligence and Futuristic technology

Teachers decry AI as brain-rotting junk food for kids: ‘Students can’t reason. They can’t think. They can’t solve problems’

By Eva Roytburg

January 15, 2026

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If your phone is on SOS (and you can see this), yes, Verizon is having a major outage across the U.S.

By The Associated Press

January 14, 2026

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Consumers lost $12.5 billion to fraud last year, and AI-powered scams are set to explode in 2026, Experian warns

By Amanda Gerut

January 13, 2026

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Grok blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia as sexual deepfake scandal builds

By Eileen Ng, Edna Tarigan and The Associated Press

January 12, 2026

U.K. investigation into X over allegedly illegal deepfakes risks igniting a free speech battle with the U.S.

By Beatrice Nolan

January 12, 2026

Lawmakers and victims criticize the choice to limit Grok’s AI image generation to paid users as ‘insulting’ and ‘not effective’

By Beatrice Nolan

January 9, 2026

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Mass shootings on campus give rise to a new kind of life-saving service journalism: an anonymous message board called Sidechat

By Leah Willingham and The Associated Press

January 8, 2026

Exclusive: Invictus-backed cybersecurity company ThreatModeler acquires competitor IriusRisk for over $100 million

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Exclusive: Invictus-backed cybersecurity company ThreatModeler acquires competitor IriusRisk for over $100 million

By Leo Schwartz

January 8, 2026

Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher

Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher

By Allie Garfinkle

January 8, 2026

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You probably use the same password for 30 different websites. It’s time for a passkey.

By Rishi Bhargava

January 3, 2026

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Betty Boop and Blondie join Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain

By Andrew Dalton and The Associated Press

January 2, 2026

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Feds are hunting teenage hacking groups like ‘Scattered Spider’ who have targeted $1 trillion worth of the Fortune 500 since 2022

By Amanda Gerut

January 1, 2026

Sam Altman, standing in front of a large window, gestures with one hand and furrows his brow as he speaks.

OpenAI is hiring a ‘head of preparedness’ with a $550,000 salary to mitigate AI dangers that CEO Sam Altman warns will be ‘stressful’

By Sasha Rogelberg

December 29, 2025

Gen Zers and millennials flock to so-called analog islands ‘because so little of their life feels tangible’

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Gen Zers and millennials flock to so-called analog islands ‘because so little of their life feels tangible’

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press

December 28, 2025

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Ex-Palantir turned politician Alex Bores says AI deepfakes are a ‘solvable problem’ if we bring back a free, decades-old technique

December 27, 2025

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2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’

By Siwei Lyu and The Conversation

December 27, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Trump administration bars 5 prominent Europeans from the U.S., accusing them of pressuring tech firms to ‘censor’ American speech

By Beatrice Nolan

December 24, 2025

ChatGPT Atlas illustration.

OpenAI says prompt injections that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas may never be fully ‘solved’—experts say risks are ‘a feature not a bug’

By Beatrice Nolan

December 23, 2025

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Notorious crypto con man Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates

By Carlos Garcia

December 22, 2025

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13-year-old girl attacked a boy showing an AI-generated nude image of her. She was expelled

By Heather Hollingsworth, Jack Brook and The Associated Press

December 22, 2025

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It’s starting to look like we’ll never come up with a good way to tell what was written by AI and what was written by humans

By Ambuj Tewari and The Conversation

December 22, 2025

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‘He blew this case right open’: Reddit tipster identified only as ‘John’ had a strange encounter at Brown University

By Kimberlee Kruesi and The Associated Press

December 19, 2025

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TikTok agrees U.S. joint venture deal with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press

December 19, 2025

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‘It seemed preposterous on its face’: Altoona cop’s supervisor said he’d buy his favorite hoagie moments before Luigi Mangione arrest

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz and The Associated Press

December 18, 2025

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House Democrats release more Epstein photos, including Bill Gates and a dinner full of wealthy philanthropists

By Stephen Groves and The Associated Press

December 18, 2025

Sam Altman

OpenAI is a house still under construction — but no one agrees what it’s made of

By Sharon Goldman

December 18, 2025

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North Korea stole a record amount of crypto—again: report estimates its hackers’ 2025 haul at $2 billion

By Carlos Garcia

December 18, 2025

DOJ

$1 billion fraud revealed with guilty pleas from subprime auto lender Tricolor

By Larry Neumeister and The Associated Press

December 17, 2025

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