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A growing nationwide scam could target your grandparents, the FBI warns. “Phantom hacker” scams are on the rise and are disproportionately affecting older people, according to a Sept. 29 FBI public service announcement. It’s an “evolution of more general tech support scams,” federal officials say, as these “phantom hackers” claim to be technology support, bank staff and government officials in order to gain the trust of those they’re scamming. The three-step scam can result in people losing their “entire banking, savings, retirement, or investment accounts,” officials say, all while the scamme......

For the first time in decades, Cuban entrepreneurs on the island are going to be allowed to open accounts in American banks and access their money remotely, in a move the U.S. government will announce in coming days to remove a significant obstacle to the expansion of the private sector in Cuba, highly placed sources in the Biden administration told the Miami Herald. Cuban entrepreneurs will be able “to establish and remotely access U.S. bank accounts to conduct authorized transactions,” one of the sources said, which in turn would help the independent private entrepreneurs in Cuba “continue i......

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is receiving praise from some unsavory corners of the internet over his claim that the migrant crisis will “destroy” New York City. The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi blog operated by notorious far right conspiracy theorist Andrew Anglin, published a post Friday that said Adams’ comments made him “based,” a phrase used in online chat forums to describe a proudly unfiltered person. The post went on to claim that Adams’ remarks were also “insightful.” Asked whether the mayor’s office wanted to distance itself from the Daily Stormer post, Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak acc......

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge scolded a pair of personal injury lawyers on Thursday for using ChatGPT to whip up a legal brief chock-full of fake cases — with the lawyer who relied on the tech swearing it was a humiliating mistake and that he’d been “duped” by A.I. Steven Schwartz, an attorney with the law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, used the automatic search engine to whip up arguments against Colombian airline Avianca in a March 1 filing. In arguing that the court shouldn’t toss his client Roberto Mata’s lawsuit against the company, which demands compensation for an injury he suffered on......

MIAMI — Think back long ago, to a time when you couldn’t order literally any thingamajig that pops into your head at 4 a.m. from your phone. The year was 1994 and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was a 9-to-5 working stiff with a forward thinker’s dream — an insanely lofty one that had to do with a vast computer network called “the internet.” The Vision Films biopic, “Bezos: The Beginning,” which premiered Monday night at University of Miami’s Cosford Cinema, delves into what transformed that unrealistic dream into the web’s largest e-commerce site. The film starts out when Bezos, played by Universit......

One of the most popular tweets of all time preceded a high-profile house raid and arrest of a right-wing provocateur and internet dude-bro. And the internet is having a field day with it all. On Thursday, noted misogynist and former kickboxing champ Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, were detained and charged with human trafficking and forming an organized crime group. The brothers were detained in Romania along with two Romanian suspects. One of the four suspects was also charged with rape, but has not been named. The arrests follow a Twitter war between Andrew Tate and climate activist Gr......