Introduction In October 2025, a work colleague documented a cryptocurrency scam using a fake chatbot. After investigating this, I was able to receive messages from the campaign, and these emails have continued to land in my honeypot account since then. This diary documents the cryptocurrency scam campaign as it continues in 2026. Shown above: My…
At around 2 am local time in Caracas, Venezuela, US helicopters flew overhead while explosions resounded below. A few hours later, US president Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife had been “captured and flown out of the Country.” US attorney general Pam Bondi followed with…
Within minutes of Donald Trump announcing in the early hours of Saturday morning that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, disinformation about the operation flooded social media. Some people shared old videos across social platforms, falsely claiming that they showed the attacks on the Venezuelan capital Caracas. On…
Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images Wellbeing has become such a priceless (or in many cases pricey) endeavour that we can’t seem to get enough of it. Last year, we were mainlining magnesium, consuming creatine – a muscle boosting supplement that became mainstream, and we turned to AI chatbots for help with anything…
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One of my holiday projects was to redo and optimize part of my home network. One of my homelab servers failed in November. I had only thrown the replacement in the rack to get going, but some cleanup was needed. In addition, a lot of other “layer 1” issues had to be fixed by re-crimping some…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images The number of patients in hospital with flu has fallen in England, but NHS bosses are warning the cold snap could increase the pressure on the health service in the coming days. The start of January is normally the busiest time of year for the health service, so NHS England…
Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent BBC Listen to Pallab Ghosh read this article Larissa Hope truly believes that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, saved her life. Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress, she was cast in the TV drama Skins, but the new-found fame brought out a previously buried trauma….
Philippa Roxby and Smitha MundasadHealth reporters Getty Images All young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for the first time on the NHS. The vaccine will be combined with the existing MMR jab, given at 12 and 18 months of age, which already helps protect against measles, mumps and rubella….
After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative. Source link
