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AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Deepfake, Digital media, Health, Internet, Medicine, Social media, Technology, TikTok, UK news, US news

Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effectsTikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation.The factchecking organisation Full Fact has uncovered hundreds of such videos featuring impersonated versions of doctors

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Another Cloudflare outage takes down websites including LinkedIn and Zoom

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Internet, LinkedIn, Technology, World news, Zoom

Web infrastructure provider says it has implemented a fix after users had seen ‘a large number of empty pages’A host of websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and Downdetector went offline on Friday morning after fresh problems at Cloudflare.Cloudflare said shortly after 9am UK time that it was “investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs”, referring

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Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

Artificial Intelligence, Computer modeling, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, data, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Internet, Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Research, Robotics, School of Engineering, Simulation

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks. Whether you’re writing Shakespearean sonnets, debugging code, or need an answer to an obscure trivia question, artificial intelligence systems seem to have you covered. The source of

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Charlie Kirk tops Wikipedia’s list of most-read articles in 2025

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Zohran Mamdani, Ozzy Osbourne and Sinners also feature in encyclopedia’s top 20 most-read English-language pages Wikipedia’s article on Charlie Kirk was the most read on the online encyclopedia this year, as users sought out information on the conservative activist. People viewed the entry on Kirk nearly 45m times, many after he was shot at a

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UK terror watchdog warns national security plan ignores escalating online threats

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Independent reviewer says need to protect against online threats is now as important as need for robust armed forces The UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws has criticised the government’s latest national security strategy for failing to take online threats more seriously, despite Keir Starmer claiming it would result in “a hardening and sharpening of

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