The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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Pimpri Chinchwad police arrested five men, two from Madhya Pradesh and three from Delhi, accused of siphoning funds abroad via cryptocurrency after a deepfake Instagram video of a share trading expert lured a businessman to a fraudulent trading app. He transferred Rs 54.6 lakh between March 27 and May 9, while the app showed a "profit" of Rs 2.52 crore.
Original report: Five held over deepfake share-trading fraud and crypto trail
The Centro Memorial de las Víctimas del Terrorismo's 2024 terrorism review says Islamic State's Khorasan branch used artificial intelligence for the first time to recreate a supposed Pashto-language TV news bulletin about its May 2024 attack in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, which killed four Spanish tourists and three Afghans. The review calls Spanish translation of jihadist content "almost normalised".
Original report: Report says Islamic State used AI for fake Pashto newscast
Jerusalem Magistrate's Court judge Ofer Yuval ordered a self-represented insolvency appellant to pay NIS 1,000 in costs to the state treasury after a June 26, 2025 fee-exemption request, drafted with or by AI, cited statutory sections and case law that do not exist. The judge said withdrawing the request once confronted with reality was not enough.
Original report: Jerusalem court orders costs over AI-invented statutes and rulings
