An online trend is rigging the answers of popular AI chatbots with shocking ease, challenging user trust in agentic systems. Dubbed generative engine optimization, or GEO, the fad utilizes blog posts ...

Threat hunters have called attention to a new campaign as part of which bad actors masqueraded as fake IT support to deliver the Havoc command-and-control (C2) framework as a precursor to data ...

A report analyzing the impact of the rapper’s political tweets is the subject of a just-released study from Cyabra, an Israeli disinformation security company. By Kevin Dolak Nicki Minaj raised ...

What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both entertaining and concerning. Moltbook is exactly that—a platform where artificial ...

The potential of microrobots is enormous. These miniature objects can be designed to carry out actions within the body, such as sensing biomarkers, manipulating objects like blood clots, or delivering ...

It’s the kind of back-and-forth found on every social network: One user posts about their identity crisis and hundreds of others chime in with messages of support, consolation and profanity. In the ...

Keep scrolling to read our original story on the name change. Clawdbot has been on quite the ride. The free, open-source AI assistant has gone viral on platforms like X, where early adopters, AI ...

Security researchers have warned that the open source ecosystem has become a “structural risk,” after revealing another surge in malicious packages last year. Sonatype said in its 2026 State of the ...

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People worldwide are being targeted by a massive spam wave originating from unsecured Zendesk support systems, with victims reporting receiving hundreds of emails with strange and sometimes alarming ...

Elon Musk's X is revising its developer API policies to not allow applications like information finance (InfoFi) that reward users for posting on the social media platform, X product head Nikita Bier ...