Laura Cress,Technology reporterand Chris Vallance,Senior technology reporter Getty Images Campaigners have accused the government of dragging its heels on implementing a law which would make it illegal to create non-consensual sexualised deepfakes. It comes amid a backlash against images created using Elon Musk’s AI Grok to digitally remove clothing – …
Read More »Cyber flashing just became a priority offence – here’s what changes from today | Science, Climate & Tech News
Cyber flashing became illegal in 2024. Now, the government is making it a priority offence, putting the pressure on tech companies to do something about it. Cyber flashing is when someone sends a non-consensual explicit picture – best known as a “dick pic”. It’s most often women on the receiving …
Read More »Cyber flashing just become a priority offence – here’s what changes from today | Science, Climate & Tech News
Cyber flashing became illegal in 2024. Now, the government is making it a priority offence, putting the pressure on tech companies to do something about it. Cyber flashing is when someone sends a non-consensual explicit picture – best known as a “dick pic”. It’s most often women on the receiving …
Read More »Illegal child abuse material generated by X’s artificial intelligence Grok, says UK watchdog | Science, Climate & Tech News
Criminals have used Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to create child sexual abuse imagery, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported. For days, the IWF has been receiving reports from internet users that Grok had created child abuse images, but that content hadn’t crossed the threshold into illegal content. Now, it …
Read More »Nearly half of porn users are still seeing porn with no age checks, says survey | Science, Climate & Tech News
Almost half of pornography users have accessed adult sites without government-mandated age checks since the measure came into force, new research shows. Since the law changed in July, 45% of 1,469 adults who use porn have gone on websites without age checks to avoid submitting their personal information, a poll …
Read More »UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes ‘sexualised images of children’
Ofcom has made “urgent contact” with Elon Musk’s company xAI following reports its AI tool Grok can be used to make “sexualised images of children” and undress women. A spokesperson for the regulator said it was also investigating concerns Grok has been producing “undressed images” of people. The BBC has …
Read More »UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes ‘sexualised images of children’
Ofcom has made “urgent contact” with Elon Musk’s company xAI following reports its AI tool Grok can be used to make “sexualised images of children” and undress women. A spokesperson for the regulator said it was also investigating concerns Grok has been producing “undressed images” of people. The BBC has …
Read More »Grok is undressing anyone, including minors
xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster’s permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has provoked outrage after people used its AI chatbot Grok to alter photos of women by removing their clothing. The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women to make them appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting them in …
Read More »700Credit data breach exposes 5.8 million people’s Social Security numbers
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Data breaches tied to financial services companies are no longer rare, but they still hit harder when Social Security numbers are involved. In the latest incident, U.S.-based fintech company 700Credit has confirmed that the personal data of more than 5.8 million people …
Read More »ShinyHunters allegedly hacks Pornhub, demands Bitcoin ransom for 2025
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pornhub is dealing with fresh fallout after the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a massive user data leak. The group says it stole 94GB of data tied to more than 200 million records and is now attempting to extort the company …
Read More »Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law
A federal judge blocked a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users’ ages from taking effect on January 1st. In an order granting a preliminary injunction on the Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420), Judge Robert Pitman wrote that the statute “is akin to a law that …
Read More »‘I have lost out on a childhood due to sex abuse’
Derbyshire Police Jennifer Colebrook said the abuse started when she was 11 years old After being abused by a family friend as a child, Jennifer Colebrook said her life would never be the same again. Now 29 years old, she has waived her right to anonymity after her abuser Gary …
Read More »Labour MSP to quit Holyrood over links to sex offender
Scottish Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy will not seek re-election to Holyrood next year as she does not want her friendship with a convicted sex offender to “become a distraction”. Earlier this month Duncan-Glancy stood down as the party’s education spokeswoman after admitting an “serious error of judgement” over her links …
Read More »Parents told to lead by example and turn off phones this Christmas
Parents should lead by example this Christmas and turn their phones off during family time, the children’s commissioner for England has said. Dame Rachel de Souza told the Press Association children were “crying out” for engagement with their relatives over the festive break, and urged them to have “phone-free time”. …
Read More »Monmouthshire dominatrix’s tech company combats revenge porn
A professional dominatrix said repeatedly seeing her private explicit images leaked by clients led her to set up a company to combat revenge porn. Madelaine Thomas, who lives in Monmouthshire, described them as “beautiful pictures”, but said they had been “used against me by someone who I don’t know”. Ms …
Read More »I lost everything and now I try to help others says Jersey man
Chris CraddockJersey communities reporter BBC Ross Powell wants to help others who are struggling with their mental health A man who “lost everything” has opened up about his struggles with issues like drink and drugs in a bid to help others who might be facing similar problems. Ross Powell said …
Read More »Dominyddes yn defnyddio technoleg i daclo camddefnyddio lluniau
Mae camddefnyddio lluniau, sy’n cael ei gyfeirio ato yn aml fel revenge porn, yn drosedd all arwain at ddedfryd o hyd at ddwy flynedd o garchar. Mae adroddiad diweddar gan y Revenge Porn Helpline yn awgrymu bod 1.42% o ferched y DU yn cael eu heffeithio gan y broblem bob …
Read More »Dominatrix turns tech founder to combat revenge porn
Image Angel Madelaine Thomas says her personal experience of having her intimate images leaked gives her a unique insight as a tech founder Professional dominatrix Madelaine Thomas isn’t your average tech founder. After the repeated humiliation of clients leaking her private explicit images, she felt “angry enough to do something …
Read More »Scarborough teacher banned after sending messages to student
A teacher has been banned indefinitely after he sent messages of a sexual nature to a student. Andrew Bennington, 52, was working at Scarborough Sixth Form College when he sent messages on social media and an app when the student was attending the college and after they had left. A …
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