How Deepfakes and Injection Attacks Are Breaking Identity Verification

Deepfakes and injection attacks are targeting identity verification moments, from onboarding to account recovery. Incode explains why enterprises must validate the full session—media, device integrity ...

This tax season’s biggest threat isn’t a mistake, it’s a scam

In 2026, tax scams are more convincing than ever, using AI, stolen data, and fake credentials. Here are some tips to help ...
TidBITS

Reading Doesn’t Fill a Database, It Trains Your Internal LLM

Many of us think of reading as building a mental database we can query later. But we forget most of what we read. A better analogy? Reading trains our internal large language models, reshaping how we ...

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.
Frontiers

Large Language Models in Digital Public Health: Data Foundations, Trustworthy Pretraining, and Real-World Applications

The domain of digital public health is rapidly evolving with the emergence of large language models (LLMs), which are poised to revolutionize disease ...

How to use AI response patterns to build better content

LLM answers vary widely. Here’s how to extract repeatable structural, conceptual, and entity patterns to inform optimization ...

'Thermodynamic computer' can mimic AI neural networks — using orders of magnitude less energy to generate images

Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require.
Electrek

Biggest study yet shows plug-in hybrids use over 300% more fuel than claimed

As EU mulls new regulations, a real-world study of a million PHEVs shows even when charged up, they still use 3x as much gas ...
Inc

Data Centers Are About to Use as Much Power as Japan—and the Solutions Are Getting Weird

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...
Fast Company

Are LTMs the next LLMs? This new type of AI can do what large-language models can’t

A major difference between LLMs and LTMs is the type of data they’re able to synthesize and use. LLMs use unstructured data—think text, social media posts, emails, etc. LTMs, on the other hand, can ...
The New York Times

Are Models Getting Even Skinnier?

The era of size inclusivity is seemingly over. Our critic traces the shift and hopes designers might learn from it. By Vanessa Friedman I know models have always been skinny, but it seems to me they ...
TechRepublic

Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...