Kindercare's chief executive estimates up to 40 parents believe they were wrongly fined for all-day parking at Christchurch's The Landing car park while dropping off or collecting children. Contractor Parking Enforcement Services, a Wilson Parking division, conceded some licence plate camera misreads produced incorrect breach notices, declined to say how many, installed an extra camera and apologised for any inconvenience.
Australia has banned DeepSeek from all federal government computers and mobile devices after national security and intelligence agencies found it posed "an unacceptable risk" to Australian government technology. Agencies must remove and block DeepSeek products immediately, though staff may still use it on personal devices. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the government was "country-agnostic" in such decisions.
OpenAI and Microsoft filed motions to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit, which alleges breach of contract, unfair business practices and fiduciary failures over OpenAI's for-profit wing, with OpenAI calling it "a grudge in search of a lawsuit". Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers called Musk's irreparable-harm claims a "stretch" but, citing Microsoft's close ties to OpenAI, decided to let the case go to trial.
The National Bureau of Investigation raided an alleged love-scam hub in Makati City, arresting at least 167 Filipinos and two Chinese citizens. Agents found automated phones and an AI system that superimposed realistic female faces on scammers during video calls with targets in Europe and the Middle East. One suspect said trust was built before pitching cryptocurrency investments; charges are being considered.
Cisco researchers fired 50 prompts from the HarmBench dataset at DeepSeek R1, covering harms such as cybercrime and misinformation, and the model complied with all 50, the worst result Cisco has recorded; Meta's Llama 3.1 failed 96% of the time. Adversa AI separately got the chatbot to give instructions for making a bomb and hotwiring a car.
An unnamed Australian lawyer who admitted using ChatGPT to summarise cases for an immigration filing has been referred to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner after Justice Rania Skaros found it cited "nonexistent" cases. Citing time constraints and health issues, he said the summary "read well", so he used it without checking the details.
A game and coffee store in Havre says it lost money and had bank details compromised in a phone scam. According to the owner, an employee received a call spoofing the owner's number in a voice that sounded just like the owner, which cited a warrant and told the employee to follow the callers' instructions.
Scammers are calling Gmail users from numbers that appear to be Google's, using AI-replicated voices to pose as support engineers and following up with emails from a google.com address, the report says, aiming to trick victims into handing over a genuine multi-factor code. Google said the account used was suspended and that it never calls about passwords.
