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Fake videos and images flooded X in hours after Iran’s attack on Israel | Science & Tech News
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Fake videos and images flooded social media in the hours after Iran launched missiles and drones towards Israel on 13 April. Within seven hours of the drones being launched, 34 fake images and videos claiming to show the conflict had received 37 million views on X, according to a report by the Institute for Strategic…
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Fake sexual images creators could face prison under new law praised by Love Island star | Science & Tech News
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Creating fake sexual images of another person will become a criminal offence, under a new law announced on Tuesday. Those convicted could face prosecution and fines, and if the image is shared widely, offenders could be sent to jail. Even if someone creates a sexually explicit fake image, called a ‘deepfake’, without intending to share…
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Facebook and Instagram to label all images on their platforms created by AI, Meta says | Science & Tech News
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Sir Nick Clegg – the politician turned Meta executive – says the lines between human and “synthetic content” is becoming “blurred”, as the social media giant announced it would label all AI images on its platforms. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, has already been placing “Imagined with AI” labels on photorealistic images created…
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New images reveal Neptune and Uranus are not the colours we thought they were | Science & Tech News
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New images have revealed Neptune and Uranus look more like each other than was previously thought. Many people will think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus more green. However, Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford and his team found that the two ice giants, the most distant planets in…
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Sky views: 14 extraordinary images that show how 2023 looked from above | Science & Tech News
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It’s been another eventful year. From Israel’s bombardment of Gaza after the Hamas attacks on 7 October, to the continuation of the war in Ukraine and several natural disasters, the world hasn’t felt particularly stable. As if the scale of these events wasn’t clear enough, many of them have also been captured from space. We’ve…
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Fake AI images keep going viral – here are eight that have caught people out | Science & Tech News
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Fact-checkers have highlighted notorious examples of AI-generated images going viral this year, including Prince William and Prince Harry embracing at the King’s coronation. Increasingly powerful and accessible tools like Midjourney and OpenAI‘s DALL-E 3 have made creating realistic pictures with nothing but a text prompt quicker and easier than ever. While supporters of the tech,…
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Euclid telescope on mission to find invisible dark forces manipulating the universe sends back first images | Science & Tech News
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Europe’s new space telescope has sent back its first dazzling images – and will now begin peering into the invisible dark forces manipulating the universe. The Euclid telescope will observe the shapes, distances and movements of billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away to create the largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos.…
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‘Sickening rise’ in AI-generated child sex abuse images ‘inciting paedophiles to commit more crimes’ | Science & Tech News
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Home Secretary Suella Braverman has pledged to work with the US to tackle the “sickening” rise of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Investigations by an online safety group have found “astoundingly realistic” AI-made images of children, including babies and toddlers, being abused. The Internet Watch Foundation has also discovered an online…
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Five stunning new images from NASA’s telescopes | Science & Tech News
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If you’re looking for a new phone wallpaper, NASA has got you covered for the foreseeable future. The US space agency has released a collection of five stunning new pictures taken by its various telescopes, including: • Its Chandra X-ray Observatory, which is specially designed to capture images of exploded stars, the matter surrounding black…
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Crashed Russian spacecraft likely cause of new crater on the moon – as NASA releases images | Science & Tech News
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NASA has found a new crater on the moon likely caused by the impact of a Russian spacecraft that crashed last month. Luna-25, a robot lander, met its untimely end as it looked to touch down on the lunar surface’s south pole. Russia had hoped it would spend a year collecting samples of rock and…