Schools in England should teach children how to recognise and act against misogyny - prejudice against women - under new government guidance around sex education classes.

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Full feature-length AI films of child sexual abuse will be ‘inevitable’ as synthetic videos make ‘huge leaps’ in sophistication in a year

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Under the Online Safety Act, services that are likely to be accessed by children have duties to protect children online.

From 25 July 2025, providers will need to take the safety measures set out in the Codes of Practice or use other effective measures to protect child users from content that is harmful to them.

Ofcom's Codes of Practice were issued on 4 July 2025. This page gives a quick introduction to the safety measures recommended in the Protection of Children Codes.

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Racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos are getting millions of views on TikTok.

These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist tropes, such as depicting Black people as monkeys and criminals and featuring imagery of Black people with watermelons and fried chicken.

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The fake videos and images show how generative AI has already become a staple of modern conflict. On one end, AI-generated content of unknown origin is filling the void created by state-sanctioned media blackouts with misinformation, and on the other end, the leaders of these countries are sharing AI-generated slop to spread the oldest forms of xenophobia and propaganda.

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Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was nowhere to be seen, he asked Meta’s WhatsApp AI assistant for a contact number for TransPennine Express. The chatbot confidently sent him a mobile phone number for customer services, but it turned out to be the private number of a completely unconnected WhatsApp user 170 miles away in Oxfordshire.

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