Corporate executives, government employees, and professionals are confessing to crimes, exposing trade secrets, and documenting career-ending admissions in ChatGPT conversations visible to anyone on the internet.

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A number of UK agencies involved in fighting terrorism have issued a warning to parents that their children could be vulnerable to being influenced online during the summer holidays.

For the first time, Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP), MI5, and the National Crime Agency (NCA) have issued a joint statement calling for greater vigilance.

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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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