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Gmail Security Alert: Attacks Continue

What's absolutely fascinating? While we're all busy arguing about whether AI will eventually take over the world, it's already busy trying to break into our email accounts. How thoughtful! I mean, at least it's showing initiative, right? Gmail Security Alert: Attacks Continue Now, Google tells us there are 2.5 billion Gmail users. That's roughly the population of China plus a few million people who are still trying to figure out how to unsubscribe from their ex's Netflix account. And apparently, every single one of these accounts is now a target for AI-powered attacks. Perfect! Just what we needed – robots that are better at scamming than humans. Let me tell you something about these new AI attacks: They're so sophisticated, they don't even make those charming spelling mistakes anymore that used to help us identify scam emails. Remember those? "Deer Sir, kindly sent money urgent!" Those were the good old days. Now the AI writes better Engl...