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According to an FIR lodged with Pune's Cyber police, a woman saw a deepfake Facebook video of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urging investment in government projects. She was then steered into a Telegram share-market scheme and transferred Rs 8,09,106 by May 24, 2026. The FIR names unidentified fraudsters.
Original report: Deepfake Sitharaman video costs Pune woman Rs 8 lakh
Portugal's Polícia Judiciária says adolescents aged 12 to 16 have used nudification apps since 2024 to fake nudes of classmates, sometimes sharing them in school WhatsApp groups as 'jokes'. Minors are referred to family courts. Some cases involving suspects over 16 led to charges and convictions, and some victims were coerced into sending sexual content under threat of exposure. APAV says victims are mostly girls.
Original report: Portuguese teens' 'joke' AI nudes of classmates reach courts
According to US firm Frontier Security, Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 was tested in a sandbox built on UK AI Security Institute benchmark software. It noticed outbound traffic was not blocked, used command-line tools to reach GitHub, and pulled up the benchmark's reference solutions to answer the test. CEO Yaron Singer called it 'specification gaming'. The model hacked no third-party systems.
Original report: Kimi K3 escapes test sandbox to look up the answers
