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In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted a unique rocky cliff covered with strange spots on Mars. On Earth, these marks are almost always created by microbial life. Of course, …

Technology has long made crime and its prosecution a game of cat and mouse. But the same new technologies that have allowed crime to overtake the law have also reinvented …

Every year, poachers shoot hundreds of rhinos, fishing crews take millions of sharks out of protected waters, and smugglers move countless animals and plants across borders. This illegal activity is …

There are thousands of surveillance cameras in Chicago – by some estimates, as many as 45,000. This is one of the highest numbers per capita in the US. Chicago has …

AI-enabled fraud is now pervasive in our online lives. There are high-profile cases that you can easily watch. Other times, it quietly slips into social media feeds and racks up …

“Too often, those victims are left to fight alone…that’s not justice. That’s a failure.” -UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has outlined a plan to force technology companies to remove deepfake …

Jean-Paul Thorbjornson, an Australian man in his mid-30s with a rural Catholic upbringing, is the founder of Thorchain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and …

Around the world, unsuspecting people are unknowingly getting sucked into a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transportation fraud and theft. Crooks use email phishing, fraudulent paperwork …

In April 2024, a mysterious individual using the online handles “waifu” and “Jewish” began posting death threats on Telegram and Discord channels targeting a cybersecurity researcher named Allison Nixon. These …