ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — With artificial intelligence advancing every day, the FBI says the low cost, ease and lack of regulation around AI create opportunities for criminals. Investigators say one ...

Estimating π with “fake circles” using Python. This short shows how to simulate the geometry, calculate the approximation step by step, and see how accuracy improves as the model gets refined. #Python ...

For years, people could largely trust, at least instinctively, that seeing was believing. Now, what’s fake often looks real and what’s real often looks fake. Within the first week of 2026, that has ...

The "Ain't Nobody" singer and her team released a statement after several false stories about Khan were shared on Facebook and elsewhere Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital ...

A crash detection device led Brooke Hayes to her husband's motorcycle crash site. The crash happened on Jan. 2. "I wouldn't have known where he was, and the spot he was in, I don't think people would ...

A new ClickFix social engineering campaign is targeting the hospitality sector in Europe, using fake Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) screens to trick users into manually compiling and executing ...

It was hard to pick only 25. But it was easier than it used to be. Just like his first presidency, President Donald Trump’s first calendar year back in the White House was an unceasing parade of lies.

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Abstract: The complex interweaving of authentic and fake news on social networks poses formidable challenges to modern information management. Existing fake news detection methods heavily rely on ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) mocked a reporter Wednesday for asking a question on social platform X about a purportedly fake postcard from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to former women’s ...

A letter that appears to have been written by Jeffrey Epstein to serial sex abuser Larry Nassar, a former Michigan State University doctor, is among a batch of documents released this week by the U.S.