Text Messages About ‘Unpaid Tolls’ Could Be From Chinese Scammers

A new scam is blasting out phony texts about what the messages call “unpaid tolls.” A security expert reveals Chinese cyber criminals are behind the phishing scheme.

Is China developing AI models by copying the fruits of American AI research? OpenAI says that’s what DeepSeek did, adding it has evidence to back it up. President Donald Trump’s AI czar also leans in.

Emails containing death threats have been sent against practitioners of Falun Gong in the United States, plus threats of violence against congressmen who support them.

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