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NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM.
The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/
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NEW: San Francisco's city attorney has sent cease and desist letters to Apple and Google, telling them to stop hosting and profiting off apps that can 'nudify' people.
"These companies have responsibility to ensure that apps on their platforms do not facilitate sexual abuse," David Chiu told me
This follows researchers repeatedly finding apps, commonly face swapping apps, that can nudify people in the App Store and Google Play Store. Researchers say the companies are well aware of the problems and are not doing enough about the harmful apps
Read the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-apple-and-google-delete-ai-nudify-apps-from-app-stores/
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NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it.
Staff didn't trust some systems, reports obtained by WIRED show, with experts saying some systems designed to protect children could have led to "historic harms"
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By next year, London will have eight areas with fixed, police-operated, face recognition cameras, the Met has announced.
Really does continue the UK's push to roll out more and more face recognition systems—both those operated by the police and also in privately owned shops
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NEW from me: Grok has continued to host sexualized and demeaning images of celebrities, a review of public posts from Grok Imagine has found.
As well as this, people have been creating full nudity (against Grok’s terms) and sex scenes with the Musk-owned AI
X and xAI removed the dozens of posts we flagged after we got in touch, but did not comment
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-still-hosting-sexualized-deepfakes-of-famous-women/
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The survey revealed “deep European distrust in the US”, the authors said.
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Looks like the UK is going for some combination of client-side scanning/similar approach, plus device-level age verification requirements?
Cannot see Apple/Google voluntarily implementing what the government wants within the three months that's been asked
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Made some big updates to my digital sovereignty in Europe tracker!
There's now almost 40 examples listed, including organizations ditching US tech, political decisions to reduce dependence, and tech developments
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Big new WIRED story:
Meta has been quietly shipping to code to run face recognition from its smart glasses. The code is now on millions of phones
From my colleagues Dhruv and Dell
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
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NEW: Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to force four people suing it over sexual deepfake images created with Grok to drop their public anonymity.
The lawsuit says there is a public interest in knowing the names of people accusing xAI, including a woman who alleges her father used Grok to create sexualize images depicting her as a child
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“No-one is asking for this..."
Just like millions of others, scammers on cybercrime forums are fed up with AI posts and the increased rollout of AI
https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-complaining-about-ai-slop-flooding-their-forums/
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London...
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NEW:
Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered.
The findings, from a European nonprofit group, also say that the communities are involved in extensive trading, selling, and promotion of a huge variety of abusive content, including nonconsensual intimate images of women, so-called nudifying services, plus folders of images that sellers claim include child sexual abuse material and depictions of incest and rape.
https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/
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Last year, a human trafficking victim in a Southeast Asian scam compound messaged @agreenberg@infosec.exchange. The man wanted to blow the whistle on the criminals who had enslaved him.
Over the course of months, the source known as Red Bull, shared his story and secrets from inside compound.
Read the wild story of how Red Bull turned into a whistleblower and then escaped from the compound, risking his life in the process
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NEW: The number of phones being searched at the US border just hit another high
- 16,000 devices were searched in the last three months—a record high for a quarter
- 55,000 in the fiscal year 2025 (Oct-Sept)—a yearly record high
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NEW: Food prices in Europe have been soaring. Earlier this year, the Austrian government said it would build a price database to let people compare costs at different supermarkets. It said this would take months to make and only include a small number of product categories.
Within 2 hours, @badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place had built a first prototype, pulling the data from supermarket's websites, and open sourced the project. Now Heisse Preise lists 177,000 products from 10 chains.
The transparency has allowed prices to be compared: and the results appear to show supermarkets are watching each other and adjusting their prices based on others. The competition authority is investigating and already said new laws should make supermarkets publish proper APIs with full item data
