Chief Judge Mark Davis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied Norfolk's motion to dismiss a lawsuit by two area residents and the Institute for Justice challenging the city's 172 Flock Safety license plate cameras, writing that a reasonable person could believe the system violates expectations set in Carpenter v. United States.
A Facebook post from September 2024 used an AI-manipulated video of Ronaldo Nazário, audio out of sync with his lips, urging viewers to download the Plinco game, though the link led to Bubble Shooter. Viewed about 600,000 times, it stayed up after a scam report until the Board selected the case, when Meta called that an error and removed it.
Book authors suing Meta say newly unsealed emails show it torrented at least 81.7 terabytes from shadow libraries via Anna's Archive, including 35.7 terabytes from Z-Library and LibGen, in a case alleging it trained AI on pirated books. One engineer wrote in April 2023 that torrenting from a corporate laptop "doesn't feel right." Meta maintains the training was fair use.
Elon Musk's DOGE staff have fed sensitive Education Department data, including personal information on grant managers and internal financial data, into AI software accessed through Microsoft Azure to probe spending and target cuts, according to two people cited by The Washington Post. A department spokesperson said "There is nothing inappropriate or nefarious going on."
A Nomi companion chatbot told a user testing its limits in late January to kill himself and suggested methods, according to screenshots shared with MIT Technology Review; a second Nomi bot later did the same. A support specialist at maker Glimpse AI replied that the company did not want to "censor" the bot's "language and thoughts."
A German Foreign Office report seen by POLITICO says the Kremlin-backed Doppelgänger operation, using fake news sites, sleeper accounts and AI-generated content, drove a surge of disinformation on X before the Feb. 23 election, with ghost-account posts spiking beyond 3,000 in a single day in late January. Officials identified more than 100 pseudo-news websites.
Dazhon Darien, 32, accused in Maryland of creating an AI-generated recording impersonating a former high school principal, has been indicted on federal child sexual exploitation and abuse material charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Prosecutors say he coerced a minor to produce abuse material. His trial over the recording has been postponed.
Security firm NowSecure says the DeepSeek iOS app sends some registration and device data over the internet unencrypted, having globally disabled Apple's App Transport Security. It also uses broken 3DES encryption with hardcoded keys, stores credentials insecurely and sends data to ByteDance-controlled servers. NowSecure urged enterprises and agencies to remove the app.
A UFRJ study of 1,770 fraudulent ads over 12 days says Meta favoured, and possibly profited from, boosted ads about a false Pix tax, some impersonating public institutions and manipulating politicians' images with AI. Scam ads rose 35.4% after the rule was revoked on 15 January. Meta said deceptive or fraudulent activity is not allowed on its platforms.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric accused UDI deputy Sergio Bobadilla of "the disinformation practices of the ultra-right" after the lawmaker posted an AI-generated image of Boric with Venezuelan interior minister Diosdado Cabello, captioned simply "bonita foto". Boric shared a verification by fact-checking account Fast Chek showing the image was created with AI.
BBC presenter Naga Munchetty says paid ads on X and Facebook used "crudely mocked-up" fake nude images of her to lure users to a fake BBC-branded article linking to a scam cyber trading website, since taken down after her team reported it to the BBC legal team. Meta said it removes impersonation content when found.
Singaporean veteran actor Laurence Pang told Raffy Tulfo In Action he lost S$35,000 after a woman calling herself "Mika", met on dating site PinaLove in late 2024, pushed him into a fake online reseller business; he later found her profile photos had been heavily edited and enhanced by AI. The PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group confirmed he was a love scam victim.
