Lauren Fichten
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An online game called "Five Nights at Epstein's" is becoming an issue in schools across the U.S. CBS News' @laurennfich reports.
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You can now use your computer when you are nowhere near it – by using an AI assistant on your phone. It's Claude's update called Dispatch and it uses Claude's Cowork feature to send emails and perform other tasks on your computer for you. But some tasks require access to your
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A majority of companies use some form of AI for initial candidate screening, according the World Economic Forum. As AI is increasingly embraced in the hiring process, what could this mean for job seekers? CBS News' @laurennfich spoke with an AI interviewer to find out.
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Anthropic's AI assistant Claude is being used for everything from life advice to complicated work tasks. But what happens when it's prompted to generate a pitch deck for a startup from a single prompt? CBS News' @laurennfich tried it out.
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Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian said he received death threats after reporting on an Iranian strike in Israel on March 10. On Monday, Fabian documented his experience in The Times of Israel, explaining what started as a few emails asking for a correction turned into a
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He wanted a "meet-cute" story but met a matchmaker instead. The rest of Gen Z might not be far behind.
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Interest in matchmakers is rising as Gen Z disenchantment with dating apps grows, experts say.
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As the shooter descended into violent content online, mental health concerns also unfolded at home, with police responding to mental health calls at the family residence over the last several years.
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The online activity of the 18-year old behind the deadly shooting inside a Canadian high school last week revealed an interest in firearms, mass violence and a history of consuming violent "gore" content, experts at @ISDglobal said. https://t.co/jYOSIGgfQb
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The online activity of the shooter at a Canadian high school revealed she spent time in the dark corners of the internet.
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The suspect who lit a fire inside a historic Jackson, Mississippi synagogue over the weekend admitted it was because of the building's "Jewish ties," according to an FBI criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Mississippi on Monday.
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The suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, told law enforcement in an interview that Beth Israel Congregation was "the synagogue of Satan," an FBI affidavit said.
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Her daughter died after falling in with online extremists who idolize school shooters. Now, she's warning other parents.
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Jaimee Seitz said her daughter was convinced to take her own life by members of the online True Crime Community, or TCC, who glorify mass shootings, violence and nihilism.
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Content purporting to show Maduro after his capture circulated widely on social media Saturday. CBS News found several viral images and videos were either AI-generated, old or altered.
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Two men in Utah were arrested after an incendiary device was placed under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City on Friday, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.
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The device had been lit but "failed to function as designed," a Unified Fire Authority Investigations officer wrote in affidavits of probable cause.
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A teen who opened fire in a Colorado high school this week was active on a so-called "violent gore" site months before the attack, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report released Friday.
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Desmond Holly and several school shooters in the past year were active on the same website, the ADL says.
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Roblox, one of the largest global gaming platforms, bans hate speech. Users are still finding ways around it. CBS News documented at least a dozen instances of hate speech across one popular Roblox game. Latest: https://t.co/MbhbctZtyM
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CBS News documented dozens of swastikas and at least a dozen instances of hate speech targeting minority groups across Spray Paint! Servers.
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The white nationalist group Patriot Front is using 'Active Clubs'— smaller, looser networks of white supremacist groups, where members train in mixed martial arts— to boost recruitment, according to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. https://t.co/nTAMp9f2Ts
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Patriot Front and other white nationalist groups are fueling the expansion of extremist groups in the U.S., and control at least a dozen clubs nationwide.
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It was not clear exactly when the site went down but it had been active as recently as Jan. 15.
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NEW: a government website that contained information on access to abortion and reproductive health care and a Know-Your-Rights patient fact sheet appeared to be offline on the evening of President Donald Trump's inauguration Read: https://t.co/eFhIg6H2Pu
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The site was launched in 2022 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a public awareness campaign.
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Canada legalized medically assisted dying in 2016. It was set to expand to patients suffering solely from mental illness last year, but it hasn't — yet.
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Canada legalized medically assisted dying in 2016. It was set to expand to patients suffering solely from mental illness last year, but it hasn't — yet.
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Kratom can produce feelings of energy, ease anxiety and reduce pain— but carries a risk of addiction, seizures, and very rarely, death. Since kratom is unregulated in the U.S., some products are sold in highly concentrated forms and could contain contaminants.
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