Synthetic voice technology

Google is rolling out a new account control called Search Services History that governs whether activity from Search services is saved to a user’s Google Account. Se...

Law enforcement and consumer-protection agencies report a rise in “distress” or grandparent scams that use urgency and impersonation to trick older adults into sendi...

The article reports a surge in AI-enabled voice-cloning scams in which criminals use as little as three seconds of publicly available audio to imitate a loved one an...

Fox News reported on testimony by David Maimon, head of Fraud Insights at SentiLink, before the House Oversight Committee's Government Operations Subcommittee during...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) temporarily removed public access to thousands of investigation documents after images of audio spectrograms publishe...

The article reports that Americans aged 60 and older filed 201,266 complaints with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2025, reporting $7.7 billion in losse...

Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, a few weeks after performing his final concerts with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist. At Licensing Expo 2026, his son Jack Os...

At a Glendale Community College commencement ceremony, an AI-driven system that was reading graduates' names experienced a glitch and skipped hundreds of names. Coll...

Actor Eric Dane, age 53, who had announced an ALS diagnosis last April, died last month. His widow, Rebecca Gayheart Dane, told NPR about the experience of caring fo...

Startups and researchers are building and studying AI-based “generative ghosts,” chatbots and avatars created from a deceased person’s emails, social media posts, ph...