Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds

Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds

From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.

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Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall

Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments...

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Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi

Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law...

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Android Auto Lets You Install a Web Browser, and It Isn't Actually Dangerous

Android Auto Lets You Install a Web Browser, and It Isn't Actually Dangerous

You can do a lot with Android Auto, but what you can't do is install a web browser—at least not with the default, out-of-the-box configuration. It is actually possible to get a window on to the web...

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Seven Smart Appliance 'Upgrades' That Aren't so Smart

Seven Smart Appliance 'Upgrades' That Aren't so Smart

Whether you want them to or not, appliances are getting smarter. It’s increasingly challenging to find even basic models without some kind of “smart” feature or embedded artificial intelligence. If...

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How a Simple URL Typo Can Make You a Target for Malware

How a Simple URL Typo Can Make You a Target for Malware

Clicking through search results to a website comes with the risk of landing on a spoofed page that is actually a phishing scam, but so does navigating directly by typing a URL into your browser. As...

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