Cyber Security

Inside the Economy of AI Spammers Getting Rich By Exploiting Disasters and Misery

A version of this piece originally ran on DexDigi, Dexter Thomas’s newsletter, and a video version ran on his YouTube.…

3 days ago

I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can’t Be Bothered

An AI startup promises to call your elderly parents for you if you don’t have time, or simply don’t want…

4 days ago

The Ocean Spectacle that Has Entranced Sailors for Centuries

Welcome back to the Abstract!  Whatever else you think of this past week, it sure served up some ridiculously good…

6 days ago

Behind the Blog: The Economy, Robot Umpires, and Monsters

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

7 days ago

New ‘Rape and Incest’ Game Tests the Limits of Steam’s Sex Policy

For the last week, several news outlets have published shocking headlines about a game called No Mercy on Steam that…

1 week ago

How a $2,000 ‘Made in the USA’ Phone Is Manufactured

Earlier this week I wrote an article called “A US-Made iPhone Is Pure Fantasy." The long and short of it…

1 week ago

Scammers Used OpenAI to Flood the Web with SEO Spam

AkiraBot is a program that fills website comments sections and customer service chat bots with AI-generated spam messages. Its goal…

1 week ago

Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and AI image generators can only…

1 week ago

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

A powerful Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, parts of which have been seen by 404 Media, allows the federal…

1 week ago

U.S. Army Says It Could Acquire Targets Faster With ‘Advanced AI’

The U.S. Army told the government it had a lot of success using AI to “process targets” during a recent…

1 week ago