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Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material

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Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s totalAI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025.Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in

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More than 44,000 file legal objections to Palantir NHS platform handling their data

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Exclusive: Campaign comes amid backlash against tech company’s involvement with Israeli military and Trump’s ICE crackdownUK politics live – latest updatesTens of thousands of people have formally demanded NHS England blocks the Palantir-powered national medical data platform from handling their personal information.More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to their health data being shared

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‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses

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As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a wholeThere was a time, a few decades ago, when the men who owned the world’s

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We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar

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I suspect nearly all of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term healthProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghWhen I was a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford in the early 2000s, I interviewed

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TikTok drops appeal against £12.7m fine for not keeping under-13s off platform

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UK watchdog fined video app in 2023 for failing to enforce minimum age limit and remove underage usersTikTok will pay a £12.7m fine to the UK’s data watchdog after dropping an appeal against a ruling that it did not do enough to keep children below the age of 13 off the platform.The video app was

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The rise of Big Toothbrush: how did our mouths become such a lucrative market?

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People in the UK are more interested in oral health than ever – and you can now buy prebiotic toothpastes and brushes that cost up to £600. Yet we remain in the midst of a serious dental crisisA December 1969 report from the consumer magazine Which? explored a relatively new gadget that, it predicted, many

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‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

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The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolationTributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed Jolene at a London gig. Kesha sang Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You), a single her mother wrote for

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Digital ID comes of age as pubs and bars get go-ahead for biometric scan tech

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New laws coming into force this week aim to streamline age checks although old-style plastic IDs will still be allowedYounger drinkers in England and Wales will be able to prove their age with a digital ID starting this week as new laws give pubs, off-licences, nightclubs and restaurants the right to use biometric scanning technology

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Phones are the new cigarettes: why restaurants are discouraging and even banning them

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Would you hand in your phone at the door in exchange for a free bottle of wine? One restaurateur has tried that – and there are now many other gambits that are encouraging us to connectName: Phone bans.Age: Their provenance is considerable; their time is now. Continue reading…

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