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Beyond Phishing: The New 'Deepfake' And QR Code Credit Card Scams Of 2026
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (555+ words) Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The newest credit card scam warning signs look different from old-school phishing emails. In 2026, face-tampered QR codes (quishing) in public places are a growing trend. Or an urgent phone call…...
SpaceX Official Reveals New Details About Next-Gen Cell Service
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (437+ words) SpaceX satellite policy lead Udrivolf Pica told participants in the International Telecommunication Union Space Connect webcast about the next-generation Starlink direct-to-device cellular service for smartphones. The revelation of the new service follows SpaceX's October 2025 U.S. trademark filing for "STARLINK MOBILE" and…...
80% Of The World's Population Will Use Social Media By 2028
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (243+ words) Launched in 2004 as an experiment at Harvard,Facebookis often regarded as the definingsocial mediaplatform of its era, the one that brought such platforms into the mainstream. Facebook reached one million users just ten months after its launch; it took Mark…...
FBI Warns Of Romance Scams Ahead Of Valentine's Day
2+ week, 2+ day ago (477+ words) Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Love is in the air, but it might be too good to be true for some hopeful romantics searching for love online, according to the FBI. The FBI warned dating…...
Germany Rejects Billion-Euro Data Center: Bureaucracy Wins
2+ week, 6+ day ago (420+ words) Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In Gro-Gerau, Hesse, a billion-euro project has been blocked by citizen opposition and the local council's majority. The town now seems the epitome of Germany's decline: backward-looking, stubborn, and hopelessly lost in an era that leaves…...
Russia Accused Of Intercepting, Shadowing European Satellites For Signals Intelligence
3+ week, 12+ hour ago (441+ words) Russian spacecraft have reportedly been intercepting the communications of at least a dozen high-value European satellites, according to EU security officials, in the latest Ukraine-related 'scare' by Moscow. However, any information gleaned would be from communications that the satellite operators…...
Goldman: Local Resistance Against Data Centers "Are Not Slowing Development"
3+ week, 1+ day ago (323+ words) Fierce winter weather across the eastern half of the U.S. put the power grid, data centers, and electricity prices back in focus, especially in the Mid-Atlantic, where Washington, D.C., logged its longest freezing streak since 1989. Our review of Facebook, X, media coverage,…...
Senate Bill Would Ensure Data Centers Do Not Pass Energy Costs Onto Consumers
3+ week, 2+ day ago (222+ words) Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is circulating a bill to require data centers to bring their own power when constructing these new power-hungry facilities,Axiosreports this morning. We've detailed the growing resistance to the construction of new data centers for months…...
More Than 1 Million Bots Have Joined A New AI-Only Social Network
1+ mon, 8+ hour ago (604+ words) Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots are posting, commenting, joking, debating, and questioning existence, philosophical ideas, website errors, problems humans have tasked them with fixing, and more on a new Reddit-style platform designed solely…...
Americans Have Limited Trust In AI Search Results
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (252+ words) Using a search engine nowadays will inevitably render AI-generated results towards the top of the page. This means that not only the many people going straight to ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini for their queries, but everybody else as well, is…...