Parents can now set limits on YouTube Shorts for teen accounts

mashable - YouTube launches new safety features for teen accounts, including screen time controls for Shorts and age-appropriate algorithm for recommendations.

7 wks / mashable

Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling

7 wks / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

YouTube adds more parental controls, including a way to block teens from watching Shorts

7 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Jay Peters / theverge - Google's Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google…

#ai #dataprivacy #google #aiethics #genai #youtube #alphabet #assistant #digitalprivacy #gemini

Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements (7)
Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data (24)
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Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements

Apple Picking Google Gemini to Power Siri Was About Buying Time

7 wks / cnet / Imad Khan

3 Rumored Features Exclusive To Gemini-Powered Siri That Android Desperately Needs

7 wks / bgr

Google launches Personal Intelligence feature in Gemini app, challenging Apple Intelligence

7 wks / cnbc

Apple May Use Customized Google Gemini

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Will Siri Really Be ‘Powered by Gemini’?

7 wks / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Don't give Gemini your personal data, wait for Apple Intelligence-powered Siri

7 wks / appleinsider

Gemini just got scarily smart for you where Apple’s Siri dream failed

7 wks / digitaltrends

Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data

Google Wants Gemini to Know You Better Than You Know Yourself

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google's Personal Intelligence links Gmail, Photos and Search to Gemini

7 wks / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence in the U.S.

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Google introduces Personal Intelligence personalization tool for Gemini

7 wks / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Google Integrates Gmail, YouTube, and Search Into Gemini

7 wks / eweek / David Curry

Gemini can now access your photos and read your Gmail messages

7 wks / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Google Launches Beta of ‘Personal Intelligence’, Connecting Gemini to Google Apps

7 wks / blog / John Gruber

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

7 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

For AI to be truly useful, it needs to understand you. With Personal Intelligence, we’re beginning to solve this. With your permission, Gemini can now securely reason across your own data to answer questions that generic models simply can't - like suggest

7 wks / x / @demishassabis

Alphabet(GOOG) Stock: Pushes Forward as Gemini Gains New Personal Intelligence Features Across Core Google Apps

7 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Google Enables AI Assistant Gemini to Draw Information From Emails and Photos

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers | The feature will start with paid users only, and it’s off by default.

7 wks / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Google Gemini’s ‘Personal Intelligence’ Pulls from Your Search and YouTube History

7 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Google Gemini Can Now Be Personalized Using Data From Google Apps

7 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Google taps its massive data advantage with new Gemini feature

7 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google Gemini’s Most Useful Update Ever: It Finally Knows Who You Are

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

7 wks / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Gemini's New Personal Intelligence Gives Android The Assistant iPhone Keeps Promising

7 wks / bgr

Gemini's New 'Personalized Intelligence' Uses Your Photos and Gmail to Customize Responses

7 wks / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

Gemini can now pull context the rest of your Google apps, if you let it

7 wks / engadget / Andre Revilla

Google Gemini Can Proactively Analyze Users’ Gmail, Photos, Searches

7 wks / bloomberg / Chris Welch

Google taps emails and YouTube history in push for personalised AI

7 wks / ft

Gemini’s new beta feature provides proactive responses based on your photos, emails, and more

7 wks / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

7 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

Other: Diverse Gemini ecosystem developments

Google plans to make Chrome for Android an agentic browser with Gemini

7 wks / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Gemini is winning

7 wks / reddit / /u/Alone-Competition-77

The Model Matters: I Tried Vibe Coding a Project With Different Gemini Models

7 wks / cnet / Blake Stimac

Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabilities

7 wks / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Gemini is winning

7 wks / theverge / David Pierce

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Important announcement on the path towards Jarvis -> Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users

7 wks / bsky / @glenngabe.bsky.social / glenngabe.bsky.social

Google Gemini is now asking users to let it train on their personal email and photos, and offering up bizarre reasons why this is meant to be good. It is not, and the timing of the news is suspicious.

7 wks / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Image post - please click to view at origin

7 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

This is very much the interconnected extension of a Gemini Live aspiration for glasses etc. So it knows, sees, contextualizes. By getting all the data www.theverge.com/news/861576/...

7 wks / bsky / @scottstein.bsky.social / scottstein.bsky.social

Every day a new way for AI to be more intrusive and unwanted.

7 wks / bsky / @sesmith.lol / sesmith.lol

Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

7 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Apple will finally bring encrypted RCS messages for iPhone to Android chats

digitaltrends - Apple may be preparing to add end-to-end encryption to RCS messages, with new clues spotted in the iOS 26.3 beta pointing to more secure cross-platform chats between iPhone and Android users.The post Apple will finally bring encrypted RCS messages for iPh…

#cybersecurity #mobiletech #apple #android #iphone #ios #internet #instantmessaging #encryption #digitalprivacy

Apple will finally bring encrypted RCS messages for iPhone to Android chats

7 wks / digitaltrends

iOS 26.3 Hints at Improved iPhone-to-Android Texting Coming Soon

7 wks / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

End-to-end encryption for RCS messages surfaces in iOS 26.3 beta

7 wks / appleinsider

Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - The Senate has passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE ) Act with unanimous consent, according to the bill’s co-sponsor Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). The bill lets the subjects of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfak…

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #politics #cybercrime #us #law #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

After Grok's deepfake flood, Senate passes bill letting victims take creators to court

7 wks / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/13/2347221/senate-passes-a-bill-that-would-let-nonconsensual-deepfake-victims-sue?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

7 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue - Slashdot #sentiment analysis #ai #artificial intelligence #government

7 wks / bsky / @onpolitics.news / onpolitics.news

yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/...

7 wks / bsky / @mementomori4950.bsky.social / mementomori4950.bsky.social

What can technology do to stop AI-generated sexualized images?

7 wks / techxplore

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue

7 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes

7 wks / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue / It comes amid the global uproar over X’s mass AI undressing of users on its platform.

7 wks / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue

7 wks / theverge / Lauren Feiner

US Senate Unanimously Passes DEFIANCE Act as Grok Crisis Spurs Victim Protection Law

7 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

X could face UK ban over deepfakes, minister says

7 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Monero Sets New Record Price as Privacy Trade Re-Emerges

Sebastian Sinclair / decrypt - Monero’s push to a record high follows renewed interest in privacy-focused coins, even as uneven liquidity complicates price signals.

#blockchain #cybersecurity #crypto #dataprivacy #finance #privacy #encryption #digitalprivacy #regulation

Monero Hits $600: Privacy Coins Make a Powerful Comeback

7 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Bitcoin pares Powell-fueled spike as privacy coins outperform: Crypto Markets Today

7 wks / coindesk / Oliver Knight

Privacy tokens rally as XMR breaks all-time high

7 wks / coindesk / Sam Reynolds

Monero Sets New Record Price as Privacy Trade Re-Emerges

7 wks / decrypt / Sebastian Sinclair

Apple and Samsung Oppose India’s Smartphone Source Code-Sharing Rule

PYMNTS / pymnts - India wants smartphone makers to share their source code with its government. That’s according to a report Sunday (Jan. 11) by Reuters, which said that the government also wants these companies to make several software changes to comply with new security …

#techpolicy #apple #samsung #android #government #ios #india #smartphone #tradesecrets #digitalprivacy

India is proposing another far-reaching security rule for smartphones

7 wks / engadget / Andre Revilla

Indian Govt Denies Smartphone Source Code Sharing Plan Amid Closed-Door Consultations

7 wks / medianama / Azdhan

Apple Opposes India's Plan to Access iOS Source Code

7 wks / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code

7 wks / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Apple and Samsung Oppose India’s Smartphone Source Code-Sharing Rule

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users

Jackson Chen / engadget - If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you're not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the "sensitive information" of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwar…

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #meta #internet #cybercrime #scam #privacy #instagram #digitalprivacy

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Instagram Response & Fixes (2)
Other: Account Lockouts (1)
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Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #government #asia #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #grokai #digitalprivacy

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over sexualized deepfakes

7 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Grok Limits Image Generation On X To Premium Users, But Use For Non-Consensual Deepfakes Still Widespread

7 wks / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

Musk’s Grok blocked by Indonesia, Malaysia over sexualized images in world first

7 wks / reddit / /u/cnn

Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk's Grok over AI deepfakes

7 wks / npr / The Associated Press

It begins. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/m...

7 wks / bsky / @joyouspanther.bsky.social / joyouspanther.bsky.social

Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk’s Grok over AI deepfakes

7 wks / go

Malaysia and Indonesia block Elon Musk's Grok due to obscene, non-consensual content

7 wks / cnbc

‘The Humiliation Is the Point’: Women Speak Out Over Sexualized Grok Images

7 wks / reddit / /u/Disastrous_Award_789

Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut

7 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Malaysia and Indonesia block Musk's Grok over sexually explicit deepfakes

7 wks / bbc

Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut

7 wks / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Epic Games CEO Defends Grok AI After It's Used To Create Illegal Child Abuse Content And Deepfakes

7 wks / reddit / /u/PeanutCheeseBar

U.S. Senators Ask Cook and Pichai to Remove X and Grok From App Store and Play Store

7 wks / senate / John Gruber

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok access, UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows

7 wks / mashable

Grok Deepfaked Renée Nicole Good’s Body Into a Bikini

7 wks / reddit / /u/Salt-Harvester

UK, Canada and Australia in talks to ban X over explicit Grok AI trend

7 wks / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia Over Sexual Images

7 wks / bloomberg / Soraya PermatasariRam Anand

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

7 wks / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Indonesia Blocks Elon Musk’s Grok AI For Explicit Deepfake Abuse

7 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

7 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Indonesia has the balls. Does anyone else? gizmodo.com/indonesia-re...

7 wks / bsky / @kolchak.bsky.social / kolchak.bsky.social

Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

7 wks / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

7 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

The Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Just Reportedly Blocked Grok

7 wks / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

7 wks / reddit / /u/mepper

Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images

7 wks / reddit / /u/moeka_8962

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

Connor Jones / theregister - Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation ANALYSIS From May's cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have become increasingly common in UK government.…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #infosec #government #governance #uk #internet #law #digitalprivacy

Musk Calls UK ‘Fascist’ as Row Over X’s Grok AI Images Escalates

7 wks / bloomberg / Damian Shepherd

UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence

7 wks / ycombinator

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

7 wks / theregister / Connor Jones

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

Rebecca Heilweil / fastcompany - Grok’s digital undressing scandal is horrifying. In recent days, countless women, including the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, have found AI-generated and nonconsensual sexual images of themselves propagating across the web. According to one analy…

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #business #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #digitalprivacy

Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry (4)
Monetization and Paywall Tactics (8)
Other Scandals and Technical Woes (5)
Regulatory and Political Backlash (14)
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Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry

Why Elon Musk is laughing off Grok’s flood of deepfake AI porn

7 wks / fastcompany / Jay Willis

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees

1 month / wired / Kat Tenbarge

The latest on Grok’s gross AI deepfakes problem

1 month / theverge / Verge Staff

Elon Musk's Grok Faces Backlash Over Nonconsensual AI-Altered Images

1 month / cnet / Gael Cooper

Monetization and Paywall Tactics

X Restricts Grok's Image Generation to Paid Users After Global Backlash

1 month / reddit / /u/i-drake

Elon Musk Moves to Monetize Grok Deepfake Abuse, UK Calls It Insulting

1 month / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

1 month / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

X Didn't Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

1 month / wired / Matt Burgess

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Grok image generation is now paywalled on X amid AI "undressing" deepfake controversy

1 month / techspot

Limiting Grok AI image edits to paid users 'insulting' to victims, says UK Govt.

1 month / reddit / /u/Negative_Round_8813

Other Scandals and Technical Woes

Just like its dad, Grok keeps failing up

7 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll

Grok Is In Massive Trouble

1 month / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Why AI could mark the end of Big Tech's invincibility

1 month / semafor / Reed Albergotti

AI-coded malware arrives on the Mac through fake Grok AI app

1 month / appleinsider

The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored.

1 month / techpolicy

Regulatory and Political Backlash

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia Over Sexualized Content

7 wks / bloomberg / Soraya Permatasari

‘Abhorrent’: PM slams Elon Musk’s Grok

7 wks / news.com.au

X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns

1 month / reddit / /u/PaiDuck

Is Apple’s ‘Safe’ App Store a Myth? Senators Want X Booted Over Grok Deepfakes

1 month / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards / X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

1 month / theverge / Elizabeth Lopatto

Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say

1 month / cnbc

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

US Senators from the Democratic Party Urge Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok from App Stores Following Grok Generating Illegal Sexual Images at Scale

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

Senators tell Apple to remove X & Grok from App Store because of AI-generated child porn

1 month / appleinsider

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation

1 month / macrumors / Eric Slivka

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

1 month / fastcompany / Rebecca Heilweil

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores / Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of service, the senators argue.

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

1 month / theverge / Lauren Feiner

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Elon Musk needed three years to transform Twitter from maybe the world’s most important news source and a vital tool for real-world change into a weird right-wing AI slop machine generating on-demand bespoke nonconsensual porn. A real innovator in the spa

7 wks / bsky / @jaywillis.net / jaywillis.net

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

1 month / bsky / @manishakrishnan.bsky.social / manishakrishnan.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/news/859715/...

1 month / bsky / @djnoneya.bsky.social / djnoneya.bsky.social

Mosyle has identified a macOS malware campaign that uses generative AI-assisted code and spreads through a fake AI app download.

1 month / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

The message also includes a link pushing people toward the social media platform’s $395 annual subscription tier. In one test of the system requesting Grok create an image of a tree, the system returned the same message.

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

The apparent change comes after days of growing outrage against and scrutiny of Musk’s X and xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

The companies face an increasing number of investigations from regulators around the world over the creation of nonconsensual explicit imagery and alleged sexual images of children.

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Neither X nor xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has confirmed that it has made image generation and editing a paid-only feature. An X spokesperson acknowledged WIRED’s inquiry but did not provide comment ahead of publication. Read the full story:

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

I would much rather have RAM than an AutoHarass Gold subscription www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

1 month / bsky / @subzerofrog.bsky.social / subzerofrog.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/x-didn... Seriously!

1 month / bsky / @beavington.bsky.social / beavington.bsky.social

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

bbc - It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #digitalprivacy

Government, regulatory scrutiny intensifies (4)
Monetization measures restrict free access (11)
Other analysis (1)
Sexual deepfakes and abuse scandals (8)
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Government, regulatory scrutiny intensifies

Canada’s AI minister condemns deepfake sexual abuse amid X nude images controversy

1 month / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

EU and UK eye investigations into X over Grok’s lack of safeguards

1 month / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

1 month / theregister / Carly Page

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot limits access to image generator that put women in bikinis

1 month / politico / Mathieu Pollet, Pieter Haeck

Monetization measures restrict free access

xAI Paywalls Grok Image Generation amid CSAM Outcry, UK Calls Move “Insulting”

1 month / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Grok says it has restricted image generation to subscribers after deepfake concerns. But has it?

1 month / mashable

Elon Musk makes Grok's sexualized AI images a 'premium service' for X subscribers

1 month / qz / Niamh Rowe

X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

1 month / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Musk's Grok chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash to deepfakes

1 month / go

Grok Restricts Image Generation After Backlash Over Explicit AI Imagery

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Grok turns off AI image generation for non-payers after nudes backlash

1 month / techxplore

Image editing on Grok limited on X after users prompt AI deepfakes

1 month / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

1 month / reddit / /u/F0urLeafCl0ver

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

1 month / bbc

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

1 month / reddit / /u/qwerty_1965

Other analysis

Watch: Backlash against Musk's Grok AI explained

1 month / bbc

Sexual deepfakes and abuse scandals

How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images

1 month / ft

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

1 month / 404media / Samantha Cole

Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I., Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

1 month / nytimes / Kate Conger and Lizzie Dearden

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

1 month / nytimes / Kate Conger,Lizzie Dearden

Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

1 month / nytimes / nytimes

Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

1 month / nytimes / Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Vjeran Pavic, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Mar

Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok after outcry over sexualised images

1 month / ft

Musk’s Grok Limits Image Generation to Paid Users on X

1 month / bloomberg / Amy Thomson

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Honeypot trap set for any attorney general willing to use it: www.404media.co/x-premium-gr...

1 month / bsky / @danny.page / danny.page

In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.

1 month / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

the art of the possible

1 month / bsky / @mjgault.bsky.social / mjgault.bsky.social

After years of trying to push subscriptions with meaningless verifications and making X so toxic it bleeds users by the millions, Elon Musk might have found a way: by monetizing abuse at the source. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @samleecole.bsky.soci

1 month / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has restricted access to a much-criticized deepfake generator on social media platform X following a surge of users creating nonconsensual nude images.

1 month / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

According to #TheTwit restricting the access to the image generator that has created multiple sexual images to premium subscribers (that will cost you 8 bucks a month) will help “ensure responsible use“ while they “grow” the platform. I am curious as to

1 month / bsky / @porpentina2017.bsky.social / porpentina2017.bsky.social

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Healthcare with US hospitals

Alexey Shabanov / testingcatalog - OpenAI introduces “OpenAI for Healthcare,” offering secure, HIPAA-compliant AI solutions tailored for hospitals and healthcare systems at scale.

#techpolicy #digitalhealth #apple #openai #aiethics #genai #health #chatgpt #us #digitalprivacy

OpenAI launches health portal for ChatGPT with Apple Health tie in

1 month / mobilesyrup / Matthew Mountjoy

Explained: OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Health, But Issues Persist With Health Advice from Chatbots

1 month / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

OpenAI launches healthcare product line, signs up major US hospitals

1 month / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

OpenAI's Hospital Play Comes with a Warning from the Hospitals Themselves

1 month / implicator / Robert Brown

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/8/2026

1 month / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

AI Misses Nearly One-Third of Breast Cancers, Study Finds

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

OpenAI for Healthcare:

1 month / x / @gdb

real impact from ChatGPT for health:

1 month / x / @gdb

OpenAI Beats Apple to the Punch with ‘ChatGPT Health’

1 month / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor

1 month / theregister / Thomas Claburn

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Healthcare with US hospitals

1 month / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

Iran’s Internet Traffic Drops to 'Near Zero' as Protests Intensify

Jason Nelson / decrypt - Cloudflare data shows a near-total blackout as demonstrations calling for regime change spread and authorities tighten control.

#cybersecurity #government #broadband #internet #asia #media #censorship #cloudflare #digitalprivacy

Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues

1 month / ycombinator

Iran cuts off internet as protests intensify

1 month / semafor / Tom Chivers

U.S. watching for signs Iran's protests could bring down regime

1 month / axios / Barak Ravid

Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response

1 month / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Iran’s Internet Traffic Drops to 'Near Zero' as Protests Intensify

1 month / decrypt / Jason Nelson

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis

1 month / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Iran in 'Digital Blackout' as Tehran Throttles Mobile Internet Access

1 month / slashdot / msmash

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis

1 month / techcrunch / Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Texas court blocks Samsung from collecting smart TV viewing data

Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - The State of Texas has obtained a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Samsung that prohibits the South Korean company from collecting audio and visual data about what Texas consumers are watching on their TVs. [...]

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #samsung #judiciary #us #law #tv #smarthome #litigation #digitalprivacy

Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order

1 month / ycombinator

Texas Blocks Samsung from Using its Smart TVs to Spy on Texans

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

Texas court blocks Samsung from collecting smart TV viewing data

1 month / bleepingcomputer / Bill Toulas

Zcash developer team behind ECC quits after governance clash with Bootstrap board

Shaurya Malwa / coindesk - ECC's CEO, Josh Swihart, claims the team was forced to leave because of changes that made their work untenable.

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Privacy Coin Zcash Drops 20% as Core Dev Team Departs Electric Coin Company

1 month / gizmodo / Kyle Torpey

Cryptographers who mass exited Electric Coin Company debut new Zcash wallet

1 month / theblock / Daniel Kuhn

The Daily: ZEC drops as Zcash developer team at ECC quits, spot XRP ETFs see first net outflows since launch, and more

1 month / theblock / James Hunt

The ZCash situation explained! Interview with ZEC bull Mert! BTC below $90K! ZEC falls 19%!

1 month / decrypt

Zcash governance clash tanked the token. Here's why it may not be as big as it seems.

1 month / coindesk / Oliver Knight

Monero retakes privacy crown as Zcash turmoil rattles rally

1 month / theblock / Kyle Baird

Zcash Plunges Double Digits After ECC Team ‘Constructively Discharged’

1 month / decrypt / Will McCurdy

Zcash developer team behind ECC quits after governance clash with Bootstrap board

1 month / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

Zcash developers quit, form new company after board clash

1 month / theblock / Brian Danga

Roblox rolls out mandatory age checks for all users

mashable - Roblox expands its platform-wide age verification plans with mandatory age checks for any user wanting to chat online.

#gaming #dataprivacy #techpolicy #social #internet #apps #community #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Roblox now requires age verification to use in-game chat

1 month / engadget / Andre Revilla

Roblox now requires an age check if you want to chat www.theverge.com/news/856696/...

1 month / bsky / @theverge.com / theverge.com

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

1 month / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Roblox rolls out mandatory age checks for all users

1 month / mashable

Roblox now requires an age check if you want to chat

1 month / theverge / Jay Peters

Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat

1 month / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Elon Musk's initial reaction sparked additional controversy when he responded with laughing emojis to AI-generated bikini images.The post Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #governance #law #censorship #contentmoderation #grokai #digitalprivacy

Global Regulatory Crackdown (6)
Sexual Explicit Content Controversies (6)
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Global Regulatory Crackdown

X faces possible sanctions as Indonesia tightens AI rules

1 month / e27 / Sainul

Elon Musk faces new fight in Australia over 'abhorrent' deepfakes on Grok

2 months / capitalbrief / Finn McHugh

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Is Facing Potential Bans - Here's Why

2 months / bgr

EU Calls Grok's Child Images 'Illegal' as Global Crackdown Intensifies

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy

2 months / techpolicy

Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes

2 months / bbc

Sexual Explicit Content Controversies

AI chatbot Grok under fire for sexual images

1 month / semafor / Tom Chivers

Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

1 month / bloomberg / Cecilia D'Anastasio

Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream

2 months / wired / Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner

People are using Grok to create lewd images of women and young girls

2 months / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?

2 months / theverge / Hayden Field

Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

2 months / eweek / eWEEK Staff

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New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the

2 months / bsky / @mattburgess1.bsky.social / mattburgess1.bsky.social

The scale of the AI-fueled, nonconsensual sexualization of women in photos on X is staggering. The internet has suffered tools like this for years, but never at this scale, with this reach, and this out in the open. from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburge

2 months / bsky / @brbarrett.bsky.social / brbarrett.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Poli

2 months / bsky / @justinhendrix.bsky.social / justinhendrix.bsky.social

You may never have to recharge a smart lock ever again

digitaltrends - Lockin’s V7 Max smart lock uses wireless optical charging and triple biometric security to eliminate batteries entirely, promising reliable, maintenance-free home security.The post You may never have to recharge a smart lock ever again appeared first on D…

#cybersecurity #iot #hardware #camera #batteries #technology #gadgets #digitalid #smarthome #digitalprivacy

Lockin’s New Smart Locks Never Need Recharging Thanks to Infrared Light https://gizmodo.com/lockins-new-smart-locks-never-need-recharging-thanks-to-laser-beams-2000704701

2 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

The new Ultraloq smart lock uses both your face and your palm to let you in

2 months / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Lockin's everlasting vein-recognizing smart lock doorbell cam combo is peak CES

2 months / engadget / Amy Skorheim

You may never have to recharge a smart lock ever again

2 months / digitaltrends

Lockin’s New Smart Locks Never Need Recharging Thanks to Infrared Light

2 months / gizmodo / Wes Davis

Lockin’s new vein-scanning smart lock has a video doorbell and recharges wirelessly

2 months / theverge / Barbara Krasnoff

NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces

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#dataprivacy #voice #computervision #business #camera #food #law #digitalid #digitalprivacy

NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces

2 months / reddit / /u/esporx

NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces

2 months / reddit / /u/habichuelacondulce

California introduces a one-stop shop to delete your online data footprint

Jackson Chen / engadget - Californians can now put a stop to their personal data being sold around on an online trading floor, thanks to a new free tool. On January 1, the state launched its Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, shortened to DROP, that allows residents to request t…

#bigdata #dataprivacy #techpolicy #government #internet #digitalprivacy #regulation #california

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info | Discussion

2 months / bsky / @hackernewsbot.bsky.social / hackernewsbot.bsky.social

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info

2 months / ycombinator

39 Million Californians Can Now Legally Demand Data Brokers Delete Their Personal Data

2 months / slashdot / EditorDavid

A new tool should make it easier for California residents to limit data brokers’ ability to store and sell their personal information.

2 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

California residents can use new tool to demand brokers delete their personal data

2 months / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

California introduces a one-stop shop to delete your online data footprint