Americans lost more than $893 million to AI-related scams last year, including voice cloning attacks along with AI-generated phishing emails, romance scams and other hoaxes, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The article covers how AI voice scams work, and how to protect yourself:

Targets who receive these types of calls should try contacting their loved one through other means, such as via a text message, calling them on another person’s phone or reaching out to someone who would know where they are….

Families or coworkers can also establish a precautionary “code word” that can be used to verify each other’s identity. It should be a word or phrase that only a small group of people know and isn’t discoverable online.

760 words: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/tech/ai-voice-cloning-scams-protect-yourself.

Good news from Fix the News:

…Let’s end with a lightning round of undiluted good news from the United States:

• Why overdose deaths in the US are falling (it’s not because of the war on drugs).
• Florida is closing Alligator Alcatraz ((“the notorious immigration jail in the remote Florida Everglades celebrated by Donald Trump for its harsh conditions.”))
• New York has put a one-year moratorium on data centres.
• Minnesota just became the first state to ban prediction markets.
• Massachusetts school lunch participation has risen by 22% and breakfast by 27% since the state made school meals free for all students in 2023.
• Vermont is the first state to ban paraquat, a pesticide linked to Alzheimer’s.
• Texas is directing US$1.4 billion in federal funding toward rural healthcare.
• Also in Texas (by far the country’s largest energy market), clean energy has overtaken fossil fuels.
• Virginia becomes the first southern state to pass paid family and medical leave.
• Virginia has also banned the sale and manufacture of certain semi-automatic firearms, joining 11 other states.
• Oklahoma becomes the 17th state to ban child marriage. There has been a sea change regarding the issue in the US over the past decade.
• Since 2019, 26 states have enacted menopause laws, which run the gamut from mandating insurance coverage for treatments to workplace accommodations.
• National suicide rates decrease across most racial groups and youth.

We can argue about some of these, but this is a lot of good news!

And an image from my collection: