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Image changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers.

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The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.

Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.

Originally published at htpbe.tech . The version on htpbe.tech stays in sync with the latest detection algorithm — refer to it for the canonical text. A large share of fintech still ships on Rails. Stripe, Gusto, GitHub, Shopify, Instacart — the generation of companies that defined modern payments and payroll built their backends on Ruby, and the startups following them keep reaching for the same stack. So when a forged bank statement, an altered payslip, or a doctored invoice lands in an underwriting queue, more often than you would guess it lands on a Rails controller. Your KYC provider already confirmed the applicant is a real person with a valid identity. It said nothing about whether the PDF they uploaded was edited after the bank generated it. That structural-tampering layer is invisible to identity verification, and the right place to catch it is at ingress — before your Document model saves, before the row reaches underwriting, before any downstream system trusts the file. This guide walks through integrating the PDF tamper detection API into a Ruby on Rails application: from the first curl command to an idiomatic HtpbeClient service object built on Faraday, a Data -class result struct, configuration-bound credentials, a typed error class, an ActiveJob that analyzes an uploaded document and routes on the verdict, and a request spec that stubs the API with WebMock. The patterns target Rails 7.x and Ruby 3.x, but they map cleanly onto Sinatra, Hanami, or a plain Ruby worker. Treat the code as a reference architecture: it runs the real request flow against the documented error codes, but you should adapt and harden it for your own traffic profile and threat model. If you want the conceptual overview first, start with How to Detect PDF Tampering Programmatically . Integrating from another stack? See the Python , Node.js , Go , Java / Spring Boot , Laravel / PHP , and C# / .NET guides. TL;DR Two API calls, three verdicts: POST /analyze returns a top-level id , th

New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims.

Originally published at htpbe.tech . The version on htpbe.tech stays in sync with the latest detection algorithm — refer to it for the canonical text. Accounts payable teams are receiving receipts generated by ChatGPT plugins. HR platforms are seeing payslips rendered by Python scripts. Insurance claims contain repair estimates that no shop ever issued. The documents look correct. The logos match. The numbers are plausible. The question is: what can actually be detected, and what cannot? The honest answer requires separating two things that are often confused under the phrase “AI-generated document detection.” Two distinct problems called "AI-generated document detection" When people ask how to detect an AI-generated document, they usually mean one of two distinct things: Content classification asks: was the text in this document written by an AI language model? This is what tools like GPTZero and Turnitin’s AI detector do. They analyze writing style, token probability distributions, and linguistic patterns to estimate whether a human or a model produced the text. Structural forensics asks: was this PDF file generated by a real institutional system, or did it come from a headless browser, a PDF library, or a consumer tool? This is what HTPBE does. It reads the binary structure of the file — producer metadata, xref patterns, font embedding, object numbering — and checks whether those patterns match how legitimate institutional software generates documents. These are not the same problem. A document can contain AI-written text and still come from a real corporate system. A document can contain entirely human-written text and still have been rendered by Puppeteer an hour ago. The structural check and the content check answer different questions. HTPBE does structural forensics. It does not classify text. This article explains what that distinction means in practice, what the structural approach reliably catches, and where its limits are. What structural forensics detec

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI support assistant" bot into resetting account passwords.

A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm's chief executive says the malicious activity resulted from a security breach and was likely the work of a competitor trying to tarnish his company's public image.