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Democracy and Journalism in The Age of AI-Enabled Disinformation

ChatGPT is more like an 'alien intelligence' than a human brain, says futurist

Ahlberg: ChatGPT is spawning uncomfortable cyber threats

Watch a 3D-printed robotic hand play Nintendo

You've heard of the metaverse. Here's what it looks like.

Facebook internal documents show execs knew platform spread misinformation and failed to act at times

How I tried and failed to delete Google

The internet is a wasteland of disinformation. Here's how to fix it.

What we learned from the Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit

ISIS Wants Me: Migrant smuggling in Cairo

Angels of Death: Gun trafficking on the Iron Pipeline

Future of artificial intelligence becomes key topic at World Economic Forum

CES 2020: New health devices embedded with artificial intelligence

Here's everything political campaigns know about you

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey steps down

Inside the war on facts

The Metaverse is already here: 5 companies building our virtual reality future

Philadelphia School District Superintendent Has Serious Warning For Zoom Pranksters

The technology behind altered or manipulated video

Trump social media venture facing major hurdles

Major internet outage affects CBS News, CNN, New York Times, other global sites

Watch these hackers crack an ATM in seconds

Blockchain tech could save the media business

What you need to know about 5G

"False personas" spread coronavirus misinformation online

International hackers breach thousands of security cameras

Black Hat 2019: Social media influence campaigns, ATM hacking, and big business

How AI will transform the future of work

A Faster Horse - Apple's CSAM reversal, Big Tech pushback in Texas, a spying Lightning cable

Climate change conspiracies are spreading rapidly during UN's COP26 event

Blockchain company buys and burns Banksy artwork to turn it into a digital original

Hackers are attacking the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain

Inside Genesis: The market created by cybercriminals to make millions

Leaked Facebook documents show employees' frustration over response to January 6 attack

Trump's words used to create "deepfakes" at Davos

How to quit Google

How to lock down your smart home

Online forum 8chan taken offline following El Paso shooting

The world's top ransomware gangs have created a cybercrime "cartel"

Clever new phishing scam targets unemployed New Yorkers

Cybercriminals are doing big business in the gaming chat app Discord

How a Facebook app scraped millions of people's personal data

You've received a COVID-19 vaccine. How do you prove it?

What is the QAnon conspiracy?

Cyber experts weigh in on the app that crashed the Iowa caucus

After Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, conspiracy theorists falsely blame antifa

QAnon conspiracy theory spreads to political mainstage

How the Internet of Things is changing homes and global industries

Pittsburgh shooting suspect was avid user of social network Gab

TikTok reigns as most-downloaded app, passing Facebook, Instagram

Artificial intelligence poses ethical challenge to tech industry

Ransomware attack hits companies around the world

Ransomware attack hits government computers in over 20 Texas towns

Twitter releases data from influence campaigns in Iran and Russia

Group of hackers claim to have hacked 150,000 security cameras

QAnon conspiracy theory's growing influence on American politics

"Elections are now a global thing": What Christopher Wylie's CBS News interview says about 2020

After Mueller report, is U.S. still in danger of Russian hacking?

How hackers influence voters with social media

How hackers are using artificial intelligence to target campaigns

Using our data to become more human

Microsoft looks toward a password-free future of data security

What to expect at CES 2019, the nation's biggest consumer electronics show

What political campaigns know about you

The farm of the future is in the cloud

The app that broke the Iowa caucus: An inside look

How your personal data is exploited to win elections and influence policy

Paper ballots could save the election, DHS cybersecurity chief says

Meet the people who track and expose disinformation

Live and let spy: Inside the KGB Espionage Museum

Regulating AI might be impossible

Cyberweapons are now in play: From US sabotage of a North Korean missile test to hacked emergency sirens in Dallas

Ukraine is a test bed for global cyberattacks that will target major infrastructure

Inside the ProtonMail siege

Kevin Mitnick's cybersecurity predictions: More attacks, social engineering, and scary IoT

Tony Blinken: Education is the key to good cyberdefense

UN head of cybercrime: "We're all facing the same global cyber-threat"

3 basic things to know about your data, according to Xerox's CISO

How the government should regulate cybersecurity

The Regulation Chasm: Middle Market vs. Government

From Phone Phreaks To The NSA: A Brief History of Modern Hacking

Facebook whistleblower fears Meta's plan for the metaverse

Twitter slow to remove racist and sexist tweets targeting Vice President Kamala Harris, report finds