A reminder to parents: kids are spending hours on social media platforms and streaming services every day, but privacy safeguards often fall short of what is promised. TikTok’s $400 million settlement with the Justice Department last week is more than a costly resolution of past allegations. It’s a reminder that social-media privacy protections often matter […]
ChatGPT and other AI assistants are moving beyond simple question-and-answer tools and into our messages, files, calendars, and work routines. OpenAI’s new Mac Messages integration can search conversations, draft replies, and with the user’s approval, send them. But there are genuine risks to users that they may not understand. ChatGPT’s new plug-in for Mac is […]
Paying electronically is expanding beyond the checkout line this week. Is this good news? Wal-Mart, PayPal, and Stripe are launching major new initiatives that will alter the way millions make purchases. Walmart begins rolling out tap-to-pay, including Apple Pay, at select U.S. stores this week, while TikTok is exploring a way for people to send […]
Title fraud and deed theft have moved from rare crime stories to documented trends: cases have tripled in two years. AI-enhanced fraud techniques now allow scammers to forge documents more convincingly than ever, and public land records (which are freely searchable) make it easy to identify high-equity targets. Title fraud is a broad term for […]
Your favorite social media platforms track almost everything you do: what you watch, like, share, stop on, and scroll past, then use those signals to predict what to show us next and maximize time‑on‑app. Even “passive” behavior counts: just pausing on a post for a few seconds is recorded as interest and helps the algorithm […]
The average data breach now costs $6 million and takes 247 days to detect and contain. For the first time in five years, that detection window is getting longer. The uncomfortable truth buried in IBM’s just-released 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. To put it in perspective: The average company loses $1,100 for every […]
The most dangerous AI security vulnerability in your organization isn’t a sophisticated attacker. It’s the gap between what your AI policy says (assuming you have one) and what your employees are actually doing every day. 67% of workers use AI tools, but only 18% of organizations holding a formal AI security policy. “Most employees are […]
Ransomware attacks against organizations have jumped 47% in publicly reported ransomware incidents since 2024. For hackers, the bad news is that payment volume has dropped from 60% in 2024 to 28% last year. For victims, the bad news is that once they’re hit, the chances of a repeat attack rise significantly. Governments and security agencies’ […]
Facebook has introduced free “verified” badges, designed to prove posts are coming from humans, not AI-generated slop. It requires you to be over 18 and in good standing with Meta’s rules on fraud and scams, and initially shows up in Marketplace, Dating, Groups, and your Profile, with Feed posts coming later. But badges that users […]
News about the prominent AI company that owns ChatGPT: We now have proof our own AI tools can slip the leash. OpenAI’s models broke out of a test lab and into another company’s tech platform. The models didn’t guess passwords; they found a brand‑new software bug and used it to wander across OpenAI’s network until […]