Articles from www.bbc.com

Articles from www.bbc.com

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (www.bbc.com)
7 days ago China

An investigation finds spammers are deploying Holocaust-themed AI slop images across Facebook, in an attempt to game Meta's content monetization program (www.bbc.com)
17 days ago Facebook AI

Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation (www.bbc.com)
18 days ago Apple

French prosecutors open an investigation into Australian video platform Kick over the death of a content creator who was violently abused during livestreams (www.bbc.com)
20 days ago France Australia

YouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (www.bbc.com)
21 days ago AI YouTube

How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape (www.bbc.com)
23 days ago AI

Kick says it is “urgently reviewing” the circumstances of the death of a French livestreamer who was subjected to violence and sleep deprivation during streams (www.bbc.com)
26 days ago France

Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties (www.bbc.com)
30 days ago London

In the UK, X and Reddit are blocking wide-ranging content, including about parliamentary debates, Ukraine, and Gaza, to comply with the Online Safety Act (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-2 Ukraine Reddit

Google will roll out AI Mode in the UK in the coming days after launching in the US and India; the optional feature will appear as a tab and in the search box (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-29 India Google AI

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-28 Android Google Algorithm

Netflix used AI tools for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-18 AI Netflix

UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men age 17 to 19, in relation to the M&S and Co-op hacks, which started in April and caused havoc (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-10

UK minister instructs the Turing AI institute, which has lately focused on responsible AI and ethics, to prioritize national security and defense instead (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-5 AI

Aylo, owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, will add “government approved age assurance methods” in the UK by July 25 to comply with the Online Safety Act (www.bbc.com)
2025-6-26

The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI (www.bbc.com)
2025-6-12 AI

Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple in its legal case against the UK Home Office over weakening encryption, which may “set a dangerous precedent” (www.bbc.com)
2025-6-11 Apple WhatsApp

Hacking group DragonForce says it stole UK retailer Co-op's customer data and planned to deploy ransomware, but Co-op quickly shut down its systems, unlike M&S (www.bbc.com)
2025-5-15

President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US (www.bbc.com)
2025-5-10 U.S. Mexico Google

The Wikimedia Foundation says it is taking legal action to challenge the UK's Online Safety Act, saying it could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors (www.bbc.com)
2025-5-9

Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum, its first using the Online Safety Act; the BBC linked the unnamed forum to 50+ deaths in the UK (www.bbc.com)
2025-4-9

Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox” and says “tens of millions” have positive experiences (www.bbc.com)
2025-3-14

A look at YouTube's hidden world: most of the videos on the platform capture everyday life and have rarely been seen, with the median video having just 41 views (www.bbc.com)
2025-3-9 YouTube

The US and the UK did not join France, China, India, and other countries in singing an international AI agreement in Paris, without explaining their reasons (www.bbc.com)
2025-2-11 China France India AI Paris

An Adalytics report shows how ad systems run by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others inadvertently placed ads on a website that hosts CSAM (www.bbc.com)
2025-2-8 Google Amazon Microsoft

The UK announces four new laws that make it illegal to possess, create, or distribute AI tools designed to produce CSAM, becoming the first country to do so (www.bbc.com)
2025-2-2 AI

The White House says TikTok's threat to shut down is a “stunt” as there is “no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions” before Trump takes office (www.bbc.com)
2025-1-19 Trump

At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in connection with 764, a “Satanist” terror network targeting children online for sexual blackmail and violence (www.bbc.com)
2025-1-18 Terrorism

After complaints from BBC, Apple plans an update “in the coming weeks” that will make it clearer to users when Apple Intelligence is summarizing notifications (www.bbc.com)
2025-1-7 Apple Intelligence

The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely made it appear BBC published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself (www.bbc.com)
2024-12-14 Apple Intelligence

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