Deepfakes: Families with teen girls victimised by deepfake nudes push for law to rein in AI technology
The problem with deepfakes isn’t new, but experts say it’s getting worse as the technology to produce it becomes more available and easier to use. Researchers have been sounding the alarm this year on the explosion of AI-generated child sexual abuse material using depictions of real victims or virtual characters. In June, the FBI warned it was continuing to receive reports from victims, both minors and adults, whose photos or videos were used to create explicit content that was shared online.
Israel bombards southern Gaza with war planes, artillery as humanitarian crisis hits ‘breaking point’
Displaced Gazans have been sheltering in Khan Younis and Rafah because of fighting in the north of the densely populated enclave, but residents said they feared Israeli troops were preparing to move on the south.
What’s the endgame of East African Community: East African federation or East African confederation?
When Ugandans voted 65 per cent for federal system of government in a nationwide constitutional change initiated by President Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the early 1990s, they sincerely wanted a federal government of Uganda.
War diplomacy: A big part of Henry Kissinger’s legacy is the corruption of US foreign policymaking
Kissinger ducked questions about the bombing of Cambodia, muddied the truth in public comments, and spent half his life lying about his role in the killings there. In the early 2000s, Kissinger was sought for questioning in connection with human rights abuses by former South American military dictatorships, but he evaded investigators, once declining to appear before a court in France and bolting from Paris after receiving a summons. He was never charged or prosecuted for deaths for which he bore responsibility.
Henry Kissinger, top US diplomat who died aged 100, was in many respects stuck at age 14
As national security adviser, Henry Kissinger played a key role in prolonging the US wars in Southeast Asia, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese. During his tenure, the United States dropped nine billion pounds of munitions on Indochina.
War in Gaza prompts President Biden to remove restrictions on Israel’s access to US weapons stockpile
Created in the 1980s to supply the US in case of a regional war, the War Reserve Stockpile Allies-Israel, or WRSA-I, is the largest node in a network of what are effectively foreign US weapons caches. Highly regulated for security, the stockpiles are governed by a set of strict requirements.
Drug maker Pfizer sued in Texas for ‘false’ and ‘deceptive’ marketing of Covid vaccines
Dr Naomi Wolf, whose organization Daily Clout has performed detailed analyses of the Pfizer documents, told Steve Bannon that Pfizer’s own documents show they knew, “within two months of rollout, that the vaccine did not work … and that the third most common side effect was Covid-19.”
Kenya’s doomsday cult leader to appeal 12 months jail sentence for illegal film production
Mackenzie’s lawyer James Mouko said he would appeal against the ruling. Local media reported Mackenzie was convicted and fined for a similar offence in 2017.
