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Altered and misleading images proliferate on social media after Maduro’s capture

AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos proliferated on social media in the hours following former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture. Several of these images quickly went viral, fueling false information online. CBS News analyzed circulating...

The best new science fiction books of January 2026

Welcome to January, a month when many of us are keen to escape from the world into the pages...

Can a social app fix the ‘terrible devastation’ of social media? | TechCrunch

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have raised new funding for their social media startup West Co.The startup launched an invite-only version of its first app, Tangle, in November. Now the Financial Times has pieced together...

Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil. Getting It Might Not Be So Simple

President Donald Trump has made it clear: His vision for Venezuela’s future involves the US profiting from its oil.“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in, spend billions of dollars,...

French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes | TechCrunch

Over the past few days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors.The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI and featured on his social media platform X, posted...

Improve Your Telescope With a Security Camera Sensor

When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options. They can view with the naked eye through a telescope and perceive these spectacular objects as faint smudges that...

Reddit Surges in Popularity to Overtake TikTok in the UK – Thanks to Google’s Algorithm? – Slashdot

Reddit "has overtaken TikTok as Britain's fourth most-visited social media service," reports the Guardian:The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88% increase in the proportion of UK internet users it reaches. Three...

Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture

Within minutes of Donald Trump announcing in the early hours of Saturday morning that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, disinformation about the operation flooded social media.Some people shared old videos across...

How to Protect Your iPhone or Android Device From Spyware

Infection usually starts through malicious links and fake apps, but it is also taking place via “more subtle methods,” says Richard LaTulip, a field CISO at security company Recorded Future, which collaborated with Google’s threat intelligence team on the...

Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in

Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged "lapses in safeguards" on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors.The admission comes after multiple users alleged...
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Avalanches kill 8 skiers in Austria despite

Three avalanches across Austria killed eight skiers, authorities said, as hazardous snowslides continue to claim lives...
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