"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers.

'The peak of fear mongering.'

AI fruit videos splashed onto everyone's For You Pages pretty suddenly, but when did they get horny? Kat Tenbarge explains.

Jessica Foster’s posts place her beside fighter jets, world leaders and Trump iconography. Experts say her rise shows how AI-generated women can capture attention.

One adjunct professor argues that without the legal leverage of collective bargaining, she is a 'sitting duck' for institutions to profit from her expertise while leaving her vulnerable to financial i...

The Pentagon estimates the war in Iran costs $1 billion per day. Track the running total in real time.

Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein- and Diddy-themed play sets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.

Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...

From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

From a religious OnlyFans creator to influencers quibbling over the appropriation of trad wife culture, right-wing personalities are jockeying for a larger stake in the dating zeitgeist.

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/03/2025 · 28m

Missouri Attorney General introduces an age-verification rule for websites with significant adult content to protect minors, effective November 30, 2025, under the Merchandising Practices Act.

An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

This campaign is not about policy. It’s about power.

The 1st Open Conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers.

Mason is the latest university under fire from the Trump administration over alleged racial discrimination related to its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture and a lack of due process.