Last Christmas Eve, a 77-year-old woman in New Delhi got an unexpected call from what she thought was the police. Contacting her by WhatsApp video, the team of uniformed cops inside a police station ...

A new phishing scam is tricking people into installing malware by pretending to be a Google security check. The page looks convincing and tells you that your Google account needs additional protection ...

Galatasaray player Noa Lang suffered a severe thumb injury in a bizarre accident in Wednesday's Champions League loss at Liverpool when he collided with the advertising hoarding. Blood poured from a ...

The spread of fake photos of the Iran war is helping make the question Is this real? all but unanswerable. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Iranian Press Center / AFP / Getty. In short: The day ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, social media was littered with crude fakes that were presented as fresh images of the war but were either photoshopped phonies or mislabeled clips taken from ...

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to ...

You may think you can spot a crypto scam from a mile away. But what if the pitch comes from what looks like an official Google AI assistant, answering your questions in real time and showing projected ...

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

EXCLUSIVE: Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge and Sony Pictures are developing a feature film adaptation of Lynn Painter’s New York Times’ best-selling book, Fake Skating. This will be the first book from the ...

The plant-based burger once had investors licking their lips. In 2019 Beyond Meat, a maker of beef-free patties, went public at a market value of almost $4bn. The following year sales of plant-based ...

The takeaway: The ability of AI models to produce convincing, human-like images has gone too far. A new study suggests that detecting AI-generated faces is now too difficult for most people. Even more ...

Ben Palmer, a stand-up comic in Nashville, has built a following online with his signature style of elaborate deadpan pranks, stumbling his way onto court TV shows and pyramid-scheme calls to poke fun ...