Microsoft said Thursday it has ceased and disabled a set of services, including specific cloud storage and AI services, to a unit within Israel's Ministry of Defense. Its review of a Guardian report alleging the military stored phone-call data from mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank on Azure found evidence supporting parts of it, including Azure storage in the Netherlands.
Australia's federal court ordered Anthony Rotondo to pay a $343,500 penalty plus costs in a first-of-its-kind case brought by the eSafety Commissioner. Rotondo had admitted posting deepfake pornographic images of prominent Australian women on MrDeepFakes.com. After an earlier order to remove them, he emailed the images to 50 addresses, including the regulator, and later admitted contempt.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A DeSoto County, Mississippi, circuit judge sanctioned attorney Vanessa Price over a filing with 14 erroneous case citations, some to nonexistent cases. Price attributed them to an AI tool available through Fastcase. She must pay $7,472 in fees, take six hours of AI CLE and send the order to The Mississippi Bar. The court dismissed her clients' claims against Briggs Equipment over fraudulent damages documents.
Neon, launched days earlier, paid thousands of users for phone-call recordings to sell to AI companies. It stopped working after TechCrunch found a flaw letting any logged-in user access others' phone numbers, call recordings and transcripts. Founder Alex Kiam took the servers down and told users of a temporary pause to add security, without mentioning the flaw.
A proposed class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleges the Chicago Cubs collected biometric data from fans at Wrigley Field without informed written consent. According to the suit, contractors Blue Star Security and Protos Security did this using Protos' facial recognition software, violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. It also claims consumer fraud and unjust enrichment.
Trolls circulated AI-altered images appearing to show actress Sai Pallavi in a bikini. They followed beach photos from an Australian holiday, posted by her sister, that had drawn criticism online. Pallavi responded on Instagram with genuine holiday images, captioned 'PS: The above images are real and aren't Ai generated.'
