A massive, artificial intelligence-powered cyberattack has exposed critical vulnerabilities in the content moderation systems of the Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou, experts warned on Tuesday ...

YouTube users are complaining about being hit with an endless wave of captchas to solve in order to watch videos. The internet has its fair share of annoyances: spam, ads, and captchas all make for a ...

Over the past decade, security leaders invested heavily in two ideas: that bots were bad and users were predictable. Bot management and UEBA (user and entity behavior analytics) became the standard ...

AI agents claim to be able to do any task for you, but in practice, they are buggy, slow privacy nightmares. Here's everything you need to know about them and how they fall short. I’ve been writing ...

Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers over just a ...

Cloudflare's fourth-quarter results saw the web giant win from demand for distributed networking and edge services, as well as extol the virtues of the growing traffic bugbear that is agentic AI. The ...

British security firm Darktrace released an AI security product to solve the agentic cybersecurity scourge while encouraging AI development. Called Secure AI and centering around the firm’s flagship ...

Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted ...

Crypto faucets have been around since 2010, when Gavin Andresen gave away 5 BTC per visitor just to get people to use Bitcoin. Obviously, nobody’s going to give you $500,000 worth of BTC today, but ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the invention of the CAPTCHA. The great gatekeeper of the internet was originally created by students at Carnegie Mellon University to prevent bots from rigging ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

Moss may look insignificant, but it can carry a hidden forensic fingerprint. Because different moss species thrive in very specific micro-environments, tiny fragments can reveal exactly where a person ...