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UK schools should remove pupils’ online photos as AI blackmail threat grows, say experts

Criminals are manipulating pictures found on school websites and social media to create sexually explicit images UK schools should remove pictures of pupils’ faces from their websites and social media accounts because blackmailers are using them to create sexually explicit images, experts have said.Child safety experts and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) warn that […]

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How A.I. Is Transforming China’s Entertainment Industry

A.I.-generated microdramas have taken off. Celebrities have threatened legal action against the use of their likeness, while actors say jobs have dried up.

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I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

Physical phone blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the testWake up, 100 messages from group chat overnight about something – what? another assassination attempt; a village destroyed in Lebanon; the football result in England; the weather in Iran being manipulated; the pesticides

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Tech giants face new levy to pay for Australian news as Meta calls position ‘simply wrong’

Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on

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The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books

After Donald Trump’s second election, I realised the insidious hold my phone had over my life. So I turned to something I’d loved in childhood to better occupy my attentionAfter a long day of looking at screens for work, I used to go to bed and stare at my phone until I fell asleep. When

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Facing AI and a tough job market, gen Z turns to entrepreneurship: ‘I have to prove myself’

As AI erases the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder, some gen Z workers skip the entry level to become their own CEOsWhen Ashley Terrell graduated from the University of Hawaii in 2024, she planned to find a job in marketing, maybe for a tech company. She had a bachelor’s degree in business administration and

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‘Superhighways for child sexual abuse’: California lawmakers seek tougher rules for big tech

Online exploitation ‘inflicting profound trauma on a staggering number of children’, Democrats sayFrustrated with what they describe as a lack of accountability from social media companies, two California state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would clear a legal pathway for them to face lawsuits in the state for failing to detect or remove child

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