So-called deepfakes, that is, images and videos generated with the help of artificial intelligence, are becoming increasingly ...

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting ...

The system looks for spectral patterns, prosodic markers, compression artifacts and generative model signatures associated ...

Humans have long taken each other at face value. Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher, supposedly chose his pupils based on ...

I n “Brazil”, Terry Gilliam’s film about a dystopian society, eyeball-shaped surveillance bots hover over citizens’ shoulders ...

A new AI gait recognition system can identify people by walking patterns, giving security cameras another long-range signal ...

Meta’s latest attempt to comply with age verification requirements in Europe, Brazil and the US is to roll out AI-powered tech to analyse the faces of teenage users of Facebook and Instagram. The ...

One of the chief problems with “luxury surveillance” devices, like smart glasses with baked-in video recording cameras, is that they often look indistinguishable from regular eyewear, meaning you ...

FBI data show a rise in government impersonation fraud. From deepfake video calls to IRS impersonation schemes, AI is reshaping how criminals target everyday taxpayers. We used to worry about ...

Think you can easily identify AI-generated faces? A new study suggests you might be overestimating yourself. Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Australian National ...

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...

A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology, ...