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The Refund Racket: How AI-Faked Damage Is Shaking China’s Beauty E-Commerce - ctrlf5
The Refund Racket: How AI-Faked Damage Is Shaking China’s Beauty E-Commerce

AI-generated images of “damaged” goods are fueling a sharp rise in fraudulent refund claims across China’s e-commerce platforms, with beauty emerging as the hardest-hit category. What started as isolated manipulation in toys and apparel has evolved into a coordinated gray-market practice that now targets cosmetics. Beauty is particularly exposed because of its massive order volumes […]

  • AI
  • browser
  • gartner
Gartner Warns Enterprises to Hold Off on AI Browsers - ctrlf5
Gartner Warns Enterprises to Hold Off on AI Browsers

Organizations considering the use of AI-powered browsers such as Comet or Atlas should proceed with caution. According to a recent report from Gartner, these tools introduce significant security risks that most enterprises are not yet prepared to manage. In the report, Gartner analysts Dennis Xu, Evgeny Mirolyubov and John Watts describe so-called “agentic browsers” as […]

  • Apple
  • Google
Google and Apple push emergency fixes after active zero-day exploits - ctrlf5
Google and Apple push emergency fixes after active zero-day exploits

Google and Apple have issued urgent software updates after uncovering an active hacking campaign affecting an unknown number of users across their platforms. On Wednesday, Google released patches for several security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, warning that one of the flaws had already been exploited by attackers before a fix was available. At the […]

  • chatbots
New report finds AI companies’ safety practices lag behind global standards - ctrlf5
New report finds AI companies’ safety practices lag behind global standards

A new edition of the Future of Life Institute’s AI Safety Index, released Wednesday, concludes that major artificial intelligence developers — including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Meta — are still falling “far short of emerging global standards” for safety. According to the nonprofit, an independent panel of experts reviewed the companies’ practices and found that […]