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From gamers to predators: Inside the internet’s most dangerous cybercriminal network

Loose network of hackers, extortionists and young predators operates under the radar of authorities, calling itself The Com, and it has no leadership, boundaries or rules; what starts with gaming 'hacks' ends with system shutdowns, brutal extortion and violence that slips from the screen into real life

Raphael Kahan | 01.04.26

Kidnapped teen located through phone tracking | Here's how your smartphone can save lives

A 15-year-old girl was abducted at knifepoint on Christmas Eve and rescued after her father tracked her phone in real time; here is how parents can turn their children’s smartphones into emergency lifesaving tools

Raphael Kahan | 12.29.25

How Iran infiltrates Israel’s inner circle through aides and advisers

The Handala hacking group avoids ministers’ secure devices, instead targeting assistants, advisers and forgotten cloud backups in Iran’s second-circle cyber strategy against Israel

Raphael Kahan | 12.29.25

Public opinion for sale: The new startup that's causing a storm in Silicon Valley

Doublespeed, which has raised money from one of the world's most powerful venture capital funds, operates smartphone farms and tens of thousands of AI-powered accounts to circumvent TikTok's algorithms

Raphael Kahan | 12.21.25

The clean era is over: AI tools fill with ads whether you like it or not

AI companies, facing soaring costs that undermine subscription models, are increasingly pushing ads even to paying users; the result is an AI experience shaped by profit rather than accuracy, leaving users feeling like the product

Raphael Kahan | 12.12.25

Hundreds of Porsches disable themselves in Russia after faulty theft alert

Satellite tracking system mistakenly flagged reception loss as theft attempt, shutting down hundreds of cars; drivers found their engines unresponsive and, with no support from company due to war with Ukraine

Raphael Kahan | 12.11.25

'One click can bring down a country': Israel cyber chief warns of digital siege

A rare cyber warning from Israel’s National Cyber Directorate chief sketches a reality where a country could collapse in moments; strikes on power, water, traffic lights and hospitals are now tools of war, often via proxy gangs to mask the attacker

Raphael Kahan | 12.10.25

AI bots sway voters four times more than campaign ads, studies show

Two new studies show that AI bots can shift users’ political views with four times the impact of campaign ads, flooding voters with arguments, data and supposed evidence, even when some of the information is false

Raphael Kahan | 12.08.25

Foreign-run social media ‘sleeper cells’ trying to sway upcoming elections, watchdog warns

FakeReporter warns that AI-powered influence networks run by hostile states are infiltrating Israeli politics through seemingly authentic accounts, after Iranian-run fan group for lawmaker stayed online despite repeated alerts to Meta, cyber officials

Raphael Kahan | 12.04.25

OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google’s Gemini closes the ChatGPT gap

Gemini 3 has pushed Google back to the forefront of generative AI, erasing OpenAI’s lead and shaking Silicon Valley’s balance of power; inside OpenAI, growing pressure and rising uncertainty have CEO Sam Altman warning employees of difficult months ahead

Raphael Kahan | 12.02.25

New Iranian cyber campaign targets Israeli officials with deep social engineering

National Digital Agency exposes 'SpearSpecter,' a cyber espionage campaign linked to the IRGC, using WhatsApp lures, impersonation and a PowerShell backdoor to target senior defense and government figures

Raphael Kahan | 11.27.25

Cyberattacks are surging and the health care system is still vulnerable

4 years after the major attack on Hillel Yaffe hospital, Israel is recording a sharp jump in cyberattacks: 3,380 incidents per year, hundreds of which have the potential to cause significant damage; A new report ranks Israel third in the world in scope of attacks, with hospitals a major target

Raphael Kahan | 11.23.25

AI godfather warns language models are a 'dead end,' says world models are the future

Yann LeCun says text-trained language models cannot grasp the physical world or plan complex actions, arguing even a house cat forms better causal understanding than today’s systems

Raphael Kahan | 11.17.25

Immortal beef: Israeli scientists discover how to make cow cells divide indefinitely

Hebrew University, Believer Meats report groundbreaking advance in lab-grown beef—without genetic engineering—that could reshape the global meat industry and pave the way for affordable, mass-produced cultured steak

Raphael Kahan | 11.14.25

Will OpenAI be forced to reveal tens of millions of user chats?

ChatGPT developer fighting court order to release millions of anonymized chats in a major New York Times copyright lawsuit; as global creators score wins and US rulings remain split, tech firms face growing legal and regulatory pressure

Raphael Kahan | 11.13.25

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