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We identified a very likely coordinated network of accounts across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X, and YouTube that is impersonating US Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, who serves in the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division.

A newly created X account seeded two very likely deepfake videos on Oct. 20 that depicted a former student of Texas state Rep. and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico accusing him of sexual assault. Based on dissemination tactics and content characteristics, we assess with high confidence that the Russia-ali

Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity start-up, recently told Claude chatbot maker Anthropic that its researchers had penetrated sensitive internal data and messaging systems at the artificial intelligence company, according to a draft report by Cathedral reviewed by The Washington Post.

The start-up, founded by former members of the cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service, offers AI-powered cybersecurity tools to the U.S. government and corporate clients. Its researchers got inside Anthropic systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in business software used by the AI firm and many other companies for a

AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes.

Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated, in what is thought to be the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK.

The attempt to manipulate the outcome of the consultation was disclosed on Tuesday in research published in the journal Tobacco Control by the health policy experts Dr Nason Maani, from the University of Edinburgh, and Prof Anna Gil

A top administrator at Dartmouth College resigned after a faculty committee determined that he had improperly failed to disclose the use of artificial intelligence in some of his academic and public writing, the school announced Wednesday.

The committee found that the school's provost, Santiago Schnell, used AI to alter his work in violation of the requirements of an academic journal and failed to disclose his use of AI as required by a newspaper where his writing appeared. Schnell was not forthcoming about his AI use, the committee concluded, and fell short of school standards including i

A hospital employee at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center appears to have chosen a consumer AI tool to help crunch some numbers this past month, and now the health system is notifying 3,182 patients that their personal data may have been exposed.

WHY IT MATTERS
The apparent data breach was discovered Sept. 21 during an internal review at Johns Hopkins, as reported by WBAL-TV and other Baltimore media outlets.

Health system leaders said the staff member had opted to use a p