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X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, recently provided an unprecedented, real-time public account of its intensive 24-hour campaign to combat AI-generated chatbot spam. This initiative, meticulously documented through live tweets shared across the platform, served…
A new $15 million "Quantum Defense Fund" has been launched to address potential threats to Bitcoin posed by advancements in quantum computing. This initiative seeks to develop and implement cryptographic solutions that can safeguard the Bitcoin network against future quantum…
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X (formerly Twitter) account was compromised this week by a hacker who used it to promote a fraudulent memecoin. The hacker posted messages that appeared to direct users to a malicious token contract address…
Filmmaker Scott Derrickson, known for directing Marvel's "Doctor Strange," publicly criticized Elon Musk's recent pronouncements regarding artificial intelligence and filmmaking. Musk, the founder of X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, had vowed that his AI tool, Grok, would produce a full-length…
Elon Musk announced on his social media platform X that his artificial intelligence, Grok, is slated to produce a film adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey." Musk stated that the AI-generated movie will be "historically accurate" and is expected to be…
Elon Musk announced on his social media platform X that his artificial intelligence tool, Grok Imagine, will produce a full-length feature film adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic, "The Odyssey."
A sophisticated phishing scam is currently targeting X users, employing emails that closely resemble the platform's genuine login alert notifications. These deceptive messages are designed to trick recipients into divulging their account credentials, rather than serving as security measures.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced on X this week that his account had been compromised by a hacker. The attacker utilized the platform to post content related to tokenization, a concept often discussed within the cryptocurrency space.
X's artificial intelligence algorithm is being updated to boost posts among mutual followers, a move that addresses a significant gap in its ability to understand relationship data. The company identified that its algorithm was previously lacking the capacity to predict…
A photograph of Senator Mitch McConnell, released by his team to demonstrate his well-being following a hospital admission for a fall, has inadvertently sparked widespread speculation that the image itself may be AI-generated.
LinkedIn has emerged as the platform most saturated with AI-generated content, according to a new study by AI detection platform Pangram. The study analyzed nearly one million posts scrolled through by users of Pangram's Chrome extension over two months, utilizing…
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, proposed freezing the 1.1 million bitcoin attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. Zhao's concern stems from the potential threat posed by quantum computers, which could theoretically break the cryptographic…
Hundreds of fact-checkers gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, on June 17, 2026, for the annual GlobalFact conference hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The event, attended by representatives from approximately 180 fact-checking organizations across more than 55 countries, focused…