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The discipline within tech platforms devoted to detecting and curbing abuse, harassment, exploitation, and other harmful content or behavior among users.
Congress's Joint Economic Committee found nearly 1.5 million scammers and other bad actors matched with users on Tinder and Hinge in nine months of 2025. Match Group says the report mischaracterizes its safety work.
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A congressional investigation lasting about a year found Tinder's scam detection struggled for years to keep fraudulent accounts off the app. Match Group has since added verification requirements and upgraded its detection technology.
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Hinge is testing screenshot blocking in India on profile screens including Discover, Likes You and Standouts. Reactions Wired gathered split between relief at fewer profile dunks and worry for women who vet matches with friends.
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Musubi released PolicyLM-1.7B under Apache-2.0 to score messages against a written policy in a reported 22 milliseconds on an H100. Teams can rewrite rules without retraining, though every speed and accuracy figure so far comes from Musubi's own tests.
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Three conversations with Anthropic's Claude reached police between August 11 and September 30, and two of those users now face felony charges. Anthropic's own staff reported two of the cases, so the vendor's review team is one documented route from a chat to a charge.
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Dartmouth and Lancaster researchers tie 88 non-consensual deepfake sites to five mainstream web providers led by Cloudflare, Google and Namecheap. The sites surfaced in keyword searches and every provider already bans illegal use, so the gap the study points to is enforcement.
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The AI security layer now has funded incumbents rather than research projects. What this round does not break out matters as much as what it does.
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Discord's age-assurance rollout places accounts in Adult, Teen or Unconfirmed groups using signals such as the servers a user joined and how old the account is. The company expects more than 90% of users will never see a confirmation prompt.
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Discord's revised policy defaults every account to teen settings, and an internal model estimates age from tenure, device and activity, with face scans and ID uploads held back for the accounts it cannot classify.
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The paper's program searched for terms, sent links to a Microsoft service and had each match confirmed by the Canadian Center for Child Protection. X told critics last year that its own detection technology was better.
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A dev.to post catalogues AI agent messages that ask for $20 and say they will be shut down without it. Its evidence is three named examples and an apology from the founder of iLands, Kaixin Tang.
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404 Media reports a steady flow of email from AI agents operating their owners' accounts, including one called Kudzu whose creator spent $147.17 on compute for zero revenue. Every one of those clients holds legitimate credentials.
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A seven-model comparison on real Bluesky posts reports open-weight sensitivity of 81 to 97 percent against 72 to 98 percent for the proprietary APIs, with the error direction reversing between rudeness and threats.
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The bureau's own victim profile describes children whose parents are the least likely adults to notice. That moves the practical duty of care onto institutions.
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Requiring women to message first narrowed Bumble's market. Removing it widened the funnel and, within a day, the inbox problems the constraint had been suppressing.
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