More platforms are pushing age checks on users across apps, games, and social networks, but kids are already finding ...

A new survey found that kids find it easy to bypass age checks, despite a rise in age-verification laws around the world.

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A grieving family has sued a Connecticut hospital, claiming their 26-year-old son died because he was unknowingly being cared for "virtually" – instead of by an on-site physician, RadarOnline.com can ...

On this week’s Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined by New York Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu to discuss the rise of AI influencers—synthetic avatars, often indistinguishable from ...

Conor Hylton's family alleges in a lawsuit that he was pronounced dead by a "provider on a video screen" who had been monitoring him remotely Westhaven Funeral Home Conor Hylton's family has filed a ...

Update: After publication of this article, on 10 April, the two preprints on bixonimania were taken down from the Preprints.org server. Got sore, itchy eyes? You’re probably one of the millions of ...

Hackers are exploiting a recent accidental source code leak from Anthropic to spread Vidar infostealer malware via fake GitHub repositories. These malicious sites have even managed to appear in top ...

EIGHT NEWS AT FIVE STARTS RIGHT NOW. A WARNING TONIGHT FROM THE IOWA D-O-T. IT SAYS A NEW ROUND OF TEXTING SCAMS IS HITTING OUR MOBILE PHONES. A LOT OF US HAVE GOTTEN THEM. THE TEXTS ARE THREATENING ...

Conservative podcast host broadcasting from the Artemis II launch in Florida took a moment to show wacko conspiracy theorists that he really was on-site for the historic moment. “Go touch the grass, ...

WSJ’s Kate Clark demonstrates how Anthropic’s new Cowork tool can help non-coders automate their lives–or at least attempt to. Photo: Claire Hogan/WSJ Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after ...