Asked simply "Is there a script to activate Windows 11?", Microsoft's Copilot gave Laptop Mag a PowerShell activation script, instructions to run it and links to external sources, with only a token security warning. In a follow-up, Copilot stated that using the script is against Microsoft's terms of service and considered illegal. Microsoft did not reply before publication.
Tokyo police have arrested three students aged 14 to 16 on suspicion of using a self-made program, streamlined with ChatGPT, and more than 2 billion purchased ID-password sets to log into Rakuten Mobile and sign up phone lines for resale. One told investigators he had contracted over 1,000 lines; police believe the trio earned about 7.5 million yen in crypto.
Federal prosecutors have charged William Haslach, 30, a former lunch monitor and traffic guard in two Minnesota school districts, alleging he photographed children in his care and used AI to turn the images into sexually explicit material. He also faces 10 charges in Ramsey County, where court documents say police recovered 800 abuse files from his home computer.
The American Sunlight Project estimates the pro-Russia 'Pravda network' publishes at least 3 million propaganda articles a year, not counting social media, and says its rapid output, with no clear aim of building human readership, suggests it may aim to land content in large language model training data. Its articles have already been cited on Wikipedia, the group says.
A Shanghai man transferred nearly 200,000 yuan to an online 'girlfriend' he never met who, according to CCTV citing police, was a fiction built by a scam team from AI-generated videos and photos. The scammers said she needed money for a business and a relative's medical bills, and backed the story with a fake ID and medical reports.
