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UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report

Copilot invented a nonexistent football match that was included in an intelligence report.

Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery

I suppose a subscription CSAM app might be the way MECHAHITLER manages to make money …Matthew Broersma /Silicon UK:EU Extends X Retention Order Over Sexualised ImagesThe Guardian:The UK government say...

The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service

Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service. www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...@jf2u:So... in moving the feature to the p...

AI experts share a paper ahead of the UK's AI summit in Bletchley Park warning of worrying capabilities in current AI systems and seeking urgent governance

Authors and academics also warn development of advanced systems ‘utterly reckless’ without safety checks

Sources: a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang infected the UK's Royal Mail customs label printers, forcing the postal service to stop overseas deliveries

A look at Sky Bet, the UK's most popular gambling app, which collects extensive player data, critics say to keep users hooked rather than identify addictions

Sources detail Belgium's ongoing investigation into the hack of Belgacom, Belgium's largest telecommunications provider, which was carried out by the UK's GCHQ