2025-01-07
New UK law would criminalize creating sexually explicit deepfakes
Bad actors have created deepfakes to imitate celebrity endorsements, President Biden and employers. But, one of the most heinous uses is making sexually explicit deepfakes of real people. Now, the UK government is taking new steps to deter their creation, introducing new criminal offenses for producing or sharing sexually explicit deepfakes. Only sharing deepfakes is currently an offense under UK law. <br /> "With these new measures, we’re sending an unequivocal message: creating or sharing these vile images is not only unacceptable but criminal," said Baroness Margaret Beryl Jones, minister for the future digital economy and online safety. "Tech companies need to step up too — platforms hosting this content will face tougher scrutiny and significant penalties.&qu [...]
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2025-01-07
Instagram blocked LGBTQ hashtags and treated them as ‘sexually suggestive content’
Meta’s Instagram has been blocking LGBTQ-related hashtags for months, according to reporting by User Mag. This was done under the company’s “sensitive content” policy as an attempt to restrict [...]
2025-01-08
Threads and Instagram will recommend political content after all
Meta is continuing to overhaul its moderation and content rules. Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted today that Instagram and Threads will start including political content in recommendations. It' [...]
2025-01-03
CES 2025: The new tech we're expecting to see from Samsung, NVIDIA, LG and more in Las Vegas
Time to get into the habit of writing "2025" instead of 2024, and the year may have just begun, but the Engadget team is already working hard for CES 2025. This weekend, many from the Engadg [...]
2025-01-01
Thanks to public domain, Tintin can now skeleton dance to Rhapsody in Blue
It's the start of a new year, which means a fresh crop of creative works have entered the public domain. Today, many materials that were copyrighted in 1929, along with sound recordings from 1924 [...]
2025-01-02
The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down
It's been almost one year since Intuit shut down the popular budgeting app Mint. I was a Mint user for many years; millions of other users like me enjoyed how easily Mint allowed us to track all [...]
