A 14-year-old committed suicide after following the advice of an AI chatbot. Another family is suing the same one — Character AI — after it told an autistic 14-year-old to kill his parents. It also ...

Avoid prepaying your accommodation reservations in full (unless it's a verified, refundable booking through a reputable platform). And be sure to keep digital copies of your itinerary, receipts, and ...

The FTC has issued an alert about scammers calling students and parents and pretending to be from the school’s financial aid or bursar’s office. Other back-to-school related scams are also making the ...

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The gentle voice of an elderly woman named Edna is heard over the phone. "I'm going to call Ticketmaster and see if we can get us some tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, OK?" she says. "Will you call ...

"Love is blind" takes on a more sinister meaning when so-called artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a tool for exploiting our deepest human emotions. Convincing AI technologies are increasingly ...

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Everywhere you look there's a potential scam waiting to happen. Look no further than your inbox, CNET survey finds. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven ...