
GeekSpin - 2 days 5 hours ago
There is a type of phone call that instantly raises suspicion. Your phone rings, you pick up and say hello, but what you get on the other end is silence. Just dead air, and then the call disappears. That silence can have an ordinary explanation. But if these calls keep happening, you definitely should not […] Read the original article here: Why phone scammers stay silent when you answer their call...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 7 hours ago
The FBI last week arrested an OpenAI engineer working in the company's San Francisco office and charged him with intercepting oral communications. Court documents unsealed Tuesday paint a picture of a man using AI to surveil his employer and his bosses using AI to catch him.

Vox - 2 days 9 hours ago
It's now possible to create AI chatbots of loved ones to interact with after their death. But that raises some difficult questions, like: If you do, how might the experience shape your grief? This is one of the questions driving a global study of digital "deadbots" AI models trained on a deceased person's texts, voicemails, and other personal data. Through this work, researchers are exploring what it might mean that we can now use this emerging technology to talk to simulations of...