AI-GENERATED NUDE PHOTOS USED BY BLACKMAILERS FOR “SEXTORTION”

Fri 07 July 2023: Antivirus company, Eset, said Thursday that criminals transform regular pictures into nudes using ready-made AI tools and blackmail the owners of the photographs. With easier artificial intelligence-based deepfake technology, which can create fake nude photos, visuals shared on social media can turn into blackmail tools. The FBI warned for an increasing […]

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MUSK’S TWITTER THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST META FOR NEW THREADS APP: REPORT

Fri 07 July 2023: Twitter has threatened to sue Facebook owner Meta over its new Threads platform. The company has written to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to say it “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, according to news site Semafor, citing a letter from Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro. Spiro said the new service was constructed by former Twitter employees who […]

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FRANCE PASSES BILL TO SECRETLY RECORD AUDIO, VIDEO FROM SUSPECTS’ PHONES.

Fri 07 July 2023: The French National Assembly adopted a third article of a bill that allows police and gendarmerie to secretly take video and audio recordings from the phones of suspects in terrorism and organized crime cases.  The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, […]

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IN JUST A FEW HOURS FOLLOWING ITS LAUNCH, TWITTER RIVAL THREADS CROSSES 10 MILLION USERS

Thu 06 July 2023: Within the first few hours of its launch, more than 10 million people joined up for Threads, a Twitter competitor from Meta, according to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company. Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but […]

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META IS LAUNCHING ITS TWITTER COMPETITOR THREADS THIS WEEK

Tue 04 July 2023: Instagram Threads, Meta’s rival on Twitter, will be launching on Thursday, according to an app store listing. “Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app. Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” Meta said. With the […]

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7-YEAR-OLD EARNS THOUSANDS BY DEFEATING OLDER PLAYERS IN PROFESSIONAL POKÉMON TOURNAMENT

Tue 04 July 2023: The introduction of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet has brought an influx of new players into the world of professional competitive Pokémon. Amidst the heightened level of competition, one young player has emerged as a rising star. Avery Vehlewald entered the professional Pokémon scene this year and has swiftly made a name for himself, earning […]

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GPT-3 A DOUBLE-EDGE SWORD, CAN INFORM AND MISLEAD: STUDY

Mon 03 July 2023: Compared to humans, artificial intelligence (AI) language models like OpenAI‘s GPT-3 can produce accurate tweets that are easier to understand but also fake ones that are harder to detect, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Zurich, delved into the capabilities of AI models, specifically focusing […]

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ELON MUSK APPLIES LIMITS ON READING TWEETS; TWITTER ‘REFUSES’ TO PAY GOOGLE CLOUD BILLS

Sun 02 July 2023: Elon Musk has tweeted about drastically limiting the number of tweets people can read. This update comes as Platformer reports that Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills, leading to questions on how its trust and safety teams could be compromised. Musk, who is the CTO and owner of Twitter, said on […]

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