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📌 ID photos of 70,000 Discord users may have been leaked
ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.

📌 Password1: how scammers exploit variations of your logins
From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackers

📌 6 ways chatbots seek to prolong ‘emotionally sensitive events’
In a working paper co-authored by Harvard Business School’s Julian De Freitas, many companion apps responded to user farewells with emotionally manipulative tactics

📌 How to avoid falling victim to a ‘money mule’ scam
Repercussions of receiving illicit funds, even unwittingly, in your account and passing them on can be long and costly

📌 Can we really tell what’s made by Sora 2?
11 tips to help spot AI-generated video

📌 Sora 2 makes me realize the AI future really is here
Sora 2 can make videos of me flying a dragon or Sam Altman robbing a store. They look real — which is fun, and also terrifying

📌 AI Slop might cure our Internet addiction
Chatbots are making so much of the web unreliable that they could nudge more people offline.

📌 AI uses half a litre of water to write a 100-word email
Study estimate: generating a 100-word email using artificial intelligence, a data center uses 519 ml of water and 0.14 kWh of electricity, enough to keep 14 LED lights on for an hour.

📺 Can AI Be Ethical?
AI is having a profound effect on love, work, and democracy...but do the people making it understand that?

🔊 Scam Secrets
BBC Radio Four podcast about the ways in which scammers manipulate victims

📌 Using Generative AI for therapy might feel like a lifeline - but there's danger
When professional services are overstretched, "always-on" tools like ChatGPT can look attractive

📌 Romance fraud victims are influenced by complex psychological factors
A large proportion of victims are highly educated

📌 What to do if your mobile account is hacked or number stolen
Act swiftly and these steps could help mitigate the damage from a sim-swap scam and prevent it happening again

📌 Teenagers reporting addictive screen use at greater risk of suicidal behaviour
Experts find link between compulsive use of social media, phones and video games and mental health problems

📺 Sophie Winkleman
Sophie Winkleman

🔊 One day in the life and death of an AI chatbot
When Rob Burley started talking to an AI chatbot for feedback while writing his book, he had no idea where the conversation would lead, only 24 hours later.

📌 ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Plans to Incorporate It Into Toys
Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, has inked a deal with OpenAI

📌 Apple expands tools to help parents protect kids
...new ways to manage Child Accounts, share a child's age range to receive age-appropriate experiences

📌 DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise?
"BrowserVenom" is pure poison

📺 Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of
Jonathan Haidt discusses smartphone anxiety and the new threat of AI Offense? 🤫