Google’s Knowledge Graph saw its largest contraction in a decade in June: a two-stage, one-week drop of 6.26% – over 3 billion entities deleted. Since 2015, we’ve tracked the Knowledge Graph and have ...

CEO Sam Altman called a strange graph in its GPT-5 presentation a ‘mega chart screwup.’ CEO Sam Altman called a strange graph in its GPT-5 presentation a ‘mega chart screwup.’ is a senior reporter ...

Chase Bank said it was reviewing incidents of individuals who may have participated in an online check fraud "glitch" trend and referring them to law enforcement authorities. Last weekend, social ...

Chase Bank is urging its customers not to commit check fraud. The bank’s plea comes after this weekend a viral trend took over TikTok and X, with users being told that there was a systemwide glitch ...

Over the weekend, a so-called "Chase Bank glitch" went viral—but it wasn't a glitch so much as good, old-fashioned check fraud. Trending TikTok videos had some people believing they could get "free" ...

A graph illustrating the proportion of each nationality in social housing in England and Wales has been falsely portrayed as showing foreign-born nationals are given more of such accommodation than ...

Policy changes by major retailers may have put another nail in the coffin of what used to be a financial mainstay: the personal check. In July, said CNBC, "Target joined a growing list of retailers, ...

One of the first checks ever recorded was written in the 11th century, in a marketplace in Basra, in present-day Iraq. There, a merchant issued a sakk: written instructions to his bank to make a ...

In Nov. 2021, John William Pollard, a retiree who lives in Philadelphia, wrote a $84.83 check to Verizon to pay a phone bill. It was stolen in the mail. The amount was changed to $45,678.12, made out ...

For some, writing a check is second nature. For others, it may seem as antiquated as using a rotary phone. “While we’re all used to grabbing our laptop or phone when it’s time to make a payment, there ...

MISSOURI, USA — Check fraud linked to mail theft is surging across the country. An average of 10,000 checks per month were stolen out of USPS mailboxes during the fall of 2023, according to Georgia ...

As mobile banking has taken off, many people never visit a bank, and online banks with no physical branches have opened their virtual doors. One of the most convenient developments in mobile banking ...