18 h. ago Digital violence is 'spreading at alarming speed' as millions of women face online abuse

A new report from UN Women has found that digital violence is intensifying, yet nearly half of the world's women and girls lack legal protection from digital abuse

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3 d. ago Chaos online as massive Cloudflare outage cripples half the internet

Cloudflare provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, so when it goes down, anything that relies on it cannot load, making it the backbone of the internet.

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8 d. ago Researchers find simple exercises could reduce the risk of falls for older women

Women were recruited for online dance classes twice per week for 12 weeks. Here’s what they found

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2 w. ago Gemma Collins named top 'hun' but what is a hun and why are they so important

‘Hun’ culture has exploded online in recent years with the movement celebrating ‘ordinary women’ with a camp, glamorous and down-to-earth attitude and the fun side of British celebrity culture

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2 w. ago BBC rebukes newsreader who corrected 'pregnant people’ to ‘women’ live on air

The clip of Martine Croxall, who changed the wording of ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ during a live broadcast, was widely shared online

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2 w. ago Newsreader’s facial expression while saying ‘pregnant people’ broke rules – BBC

The clip of Martine Croxall, who changed the wording of ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ during a live broadcast, was widely shared online.

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2 w. ago ‘The chilling effect’: how fear of ‘nudify’ apps and AI deepfakes is keeping Indian women off the internet

Widespread adoption of artificial intelligence has been accompanied by new ways to harass women onlineGaatha Sarvaiya would like to post on social media and share her work online. An Indian law graduate in her early 20s, she is in the earliest stages of her career and trying to build a public profile. The problem is, with AI-powered deepfakes on the rise, there is no longer any guarantee that the images she posts will not be distorted into something violating or grotesque.“The thought immediately pops in that, ‘OK, maybe it’s not safe. Maybe people can take our pictures and just do stuff with them,’” says Sarvaiya, who lives in Mumbai. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Dangerous’ online pornography featuring choking to be banned

Conservative peer Baroness Bertin warned that there has been a ‘total absence of government scrutiny’ of the pornography industry

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