Published on: 2025-04-20 15:00:57
Compared to today, the mid-2010s seem like such an innocent and naive time on the internet. People were making Vines and hotly debating the color of a dress, but there was also some mischief on the rise. Somewhere between the peak of 4chan trolling culture and the growing cult of Apple, a bizarre trend emerged: fake iPhone features that convinced people to destroy their own phones. As odd as it sounds, these hoaxes weren’t as obvious scams as they might seem today. They were sleek, well-designe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 15:00:00
Game publisher Shiro Games partners with developer FakeFish for the upcoming release of survival crafting game Frostrail. The first-person shooter, open-world game was revealed today at the Triple-i Initiative Showcase 2025 and it will arrive on Steam Early Access for Windows PC in 2026. The two firms joined forces in 2023 to collaborate on their latest endeavor that will immerse players in a dynamic adventure. Shiro Games through its publishing label Shiro Unlimited continues to pursue its go
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 14:39:16
An image provided by Pindrop Security shows a fake job candidate the company dubbed "Ivan X," a scammer using deepfake AI technology to mask his face, according to Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan. Courtesy: Pindrop Security When voice authentication startup Pindrop Security posted a recent job opening, one candidate stood out from hundreds of others. The applicant, a Russian coder named Ivan, seemed to have all the right qualifications for the senior engineering role. When he was interviewed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 19:20:00
In a nutshell: April means one thing for many Americans: tax season stress. And while you're scrambling to file before the deadline, cybercriminals are just as busy – working to trick you into handing over your personal and financial information. Now, Microsoft has issued a warning about a new wave of tax-themed phishing scams that are more convincing than ever. It's tax time, and scammers are pulling out all the stops. Their latest schemes include fake IRS emails, malicious PDFs, and even QR c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 03:13:36
The United Kingdom has banned “outrageous fake reviews and sneaky hidden fees” to make life easier for online shoppers. New measures under the Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumer Act 2024 came into force on Sunday that require online platforms to transparently include all mandatory fees within a product’s advertised price, including booking or admin charges. The law targets so-called “dripped pricing,” in which additional fees — like platform service charges — are dripped in during a cus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 22:14:06
'Google AI presented my April Fools' story as real news' 7 hours ago Share Save Eleri Griffiths BBC News Share Save BBC Ben Black publishes a fake news story every year for April Fools' Day Every year, journalist Ben Black publishes a playful fake story on his community news site Cwmbran Life for April Fools' Day. Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club at a lake. In 2020, Mr Black published a fake story cla
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 07:56:54
The notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group has reportedly adopted 'ClickFix' tactics to deploy malware targeting job seekers in the cryptocurrency industry, particularly centralized finance (CeFi). This development, reported by Sekoia, is seen as an evolution of the threat actor's 'Contagious Interview' campaign that similarly targets job seekers in the AI and cryptocurrency space. ClickFix is a relatively new but increasingly common tactic where threat actors use fake errors on websites
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 04:19:00
In brief: Following an investigation into the huge number of fake movie trailers seen on YouTube – most of which use AI to some degree – and how the money they generate is funneled back to the movie studios, YouTube has paused monetization for two of the biggest channels that create them. You've likely seen at least one fake trailer, aka fan trailer, on YouTube. There are ones for sequels or new franchise entries that aren't being made (Henry Cavil and Margot Robbie in James Bond), some that pl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 05:35:34
The trend of using Open AI’s ChatGPT to create AI images in the distinctive style of Studio Ghibli probably should have ceased the moment the official White House X account hopped aboard. But there’s a new wrinkle in the story today, as one of the trend’s proponents posted a cease and desist notice they claimed to have received from Studio Ghibli representatives—which fellow social media users immediately called out as being as fake as the “art” that inspired it. Along with the (fake) letter, X
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 13:30:45
The latest viral AI craze has seen quickly generated Ghibli-style art ripping away the craftsmanship of animators for the sake of clicks. But the technology continues to pervade the entire medium of online entertainment, including fake movie trailers. The trend began with splicing clips of actors in other scenes to build a narrative that would fit into, say, an upcoming Marvel Studios or DC Studios movie—and in the past, movie studios would ding the videos to be taken down yet invariably fan tra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 17:39:10
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also known as jazz “standards”—all meticulously notated by hand. It’s called the Real Book. But if you were going to music school in the 1970s, you couldn’t just buy a copy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 03:39:10
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also known as jazz “standards”—all meticulously notated by hand. It’s called the Real Book. But if you were going to music school in the 1970s, you couldn’t just buy a copy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-27 11:16:00
WTF?! It's not just the RTX 5090 that's experiencing high demand. Gamers are still snapping up Nvidia's previous-gen RTX 4090, which explains the continued appearance of fake versions of the card. One trick is to use a die from an RTX 3090 series in the Lovelace flagship. A user on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili (via Tom's Hardware) shared a video of what appears to be an unboxing of a Palit RTX 4090 graphics card. At first glance, the card looks brand new. But disassembling it reveal
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 04:28:45
The proliferation of scarily realistic deepfakes is one of the more pernicious by-products of the rise of AI, and falling victim to scams based on these deepfakes is already costing companies millions of dollars — not to mention the implications these could have on national security. A startup that’s built a toolset aimed at governments and enterprises to help detect and halt deepfakes and impersonations in audio, video, and still images is announcing some funding Wednesday with some impressive
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 19:28:45
The proliferation of scarily realistic deepfakes is one of the more pernicious byproducts of the rise of AI, and falling victim to scams based on these deepfakes is already costing companies millions of dollars — not to mention the implications these could have on national security. A startup that’s built a toolset aimed at governments and enterprises to help detect and halt deepfakes and impersonations in audio, video, and still images is announcing some funding Wednesday with some impressive c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 14:49:31
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google Maps TL;DR Over 10,000 fraudulent listings were uncovered and removed from Google Maps. These scams ranged from fake businesses to legitimate accounts that were hacked. Google says the people behind the scam were working within a wider network. Google Maps is great for finding your way around town. In addition to helping you get from point A to point B, you can also use it as a way to discover new places to shop, eat, and so on. While you can usually tr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 14:16:29
Google is suing a network of scammers who manipulated Google Maps by faking or hijacking about 10,000 business listings to con people out of money. The main defendant named in the lawsuit is a Maryland man who allegedly played a central role in the scheme by helping coordinate teams of scammers around the world to carry it out. The lawsuit, first reported by CBS News, states the man for two years "abused Google services to create fake online listings for businesses that do not exist and to bols
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 18:32:57
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Google is taking down 10,000 fake business listings from Google Maps and suing a network of scammers who set them up, CBS News reports. The company’s lawsuit alleges that a man connected to a broader scam network created fake business profiles on Google Maps and sold them for profit. Google was tipped off by a Texas-based locksmith who said so
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 10:11:00
WTF?! It appears that Amazon still sells the occasional CPU that turns out to be a fake. The latest incident involved a Ryzen 7 9800X3D ordered by a reviewer for a test system that was actually an AMD FX-4100 CPU from 2011. We've been reporting stories about Amazon customers receiving fake processors since 2017. It still occasionally happens, as discovered by Aris from Hardware Busters. He bought a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which has an MSRP of $480 in the US, for a test system. The box in which the pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 04:18:20
Scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang in fake ransom notes sent to US companies via snail mail through the United States Postal Service. The fake ransom notes were first reported by Guidepoint Security today, with BleepingComputer later being sent a scan of the note from a CEO who received the same letter. The envelopes for these ransom notes claim to be from the "BIANLIAN Group" and have a return address located in an office building in Boston, Massachusets: BIANLIAN GROUP
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 02:45:02
Microsoft is trying to show its commitment to AI safety by amending a lawsuit filed last year to unmask the four developers it alleges evaded guardrails on its AI tools in order to generate celebrity deepfakes. The company filed the lawsuit back in December, and a court order allowing Microsoft to seize a website associated with the operation help it identify the individuals. The four developers are reportedly part of a global cybercrime network called Storm-2139: Arian Yadegarnia aka “Fiz” of
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