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📌 Bots, bias, bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?
You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks

📌 You can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is
LLMs might not use explicitly biased language, they may still use implicit biases.

📌 Are you a problem gambler?
Try this questionnaire

📌 Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes
Smartphones capture our attention and cultivate our loyalty

👥 Gambling: Where Can I Get Help?
If you want to reach out to others in a similar situation, please use our support forums

📌 Pupils struggle to spot untrue AI content - report
teenagers use artificial intelligence in their schoolwork but many struggle to spot misinformation

📌 Hundreds of free VPN apps are not fit for purpose
Outdated libraries in VPN tools leave millions exposed to known security flaws

📌 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