5 hours ago AI increasingly used for sextortion, scams and child abuse, says senior UK police chief

The fast-developing technology is providing opportunities in ‘any crime type’ – and police must ‘move fast’ to catch upPaedophiles, scammers, hackers and criminals of all kinds are increasingly exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) to target victims in new and harmful ways, a senior police chief has warned.Alex Murray, the national police lead for AI, said that the use of the technology was growing rapidly because of its increasing accessibility and that police had to “move fast” to keep on top of the threat. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago 'Disgraceful' data shows children among those waiting years in temporary housing

The data shows one child in Edinburgh has been waiting seven years for a permanent house, while an adult in the capital has waited nearly eight years.

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22 hours ago Even with access to blockbuster obesity drugs, some people don't lose weight

Most people taking popular drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight have shed significant pounds

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22 hours ago 'Immediate security action' taken after prison maps leaked on dark web

The Government said it was aware of a data breach following a report in the Times that detailed prison layouts had been shared on the dark web in the past two weeks

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27 hours ago Ronan Farrow on surveillance spyware: ‘It threatens democracy and freedom’

The investigative journalist takes on the shadowy world of invasive surveillance technology in frightening new documentary SurveilledIn 2017, while reporting a story on Harvey Weinstein that would, along with a New York Times report, kick off the #MeToo movement, the investigative journalist Ronan Farrow found himself the target of covert surveillance.The efforts to suppress investigations into Weinstein’s history of sexual abuse, for which the Hollywood mogul paid the Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube, were mostly old-school: front companies and false identities, hired subcontractors staking out buildings or tailing targets, gumshoes eavesdropping on meetings. Black Cube was able to obtain some of Farrow’s geolocation data from his phone, thus tracking his movements, but the...

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27 hours ago ‘Immediate security action’ taken after prison maps leaked on dark web

The Ministry of Justice said it was aware of a data breach after reports that detailed layouts had been shared online in the past two weeks.

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