Link to the 33-page lawsuit.

(...) The Complaint details a scheme where the named defendants, acting on behalf of Passes, recruited young women, that they knew were minors, to create pornography before they reached the age of 18, and to distribute that child pornography on the Passes platform to paying subscribers, both before and after the subject became of age.

The Complaint further details how Passes and the individual defendants took to disguise their scheme and to cover their tracks once their sexual exploitation of minor women was revealed, including changing its public representations about the compliance policy just two days ago, and also about its relationship with Celestin.

The BBC, Premier League, and Sky have submitted a joint response to the UK investigation into Google's search dominance, calling for tougher anti-piracy measures. The rightsholders argue that Google's current efforts to combat piracy are insufficient to prevent piracy. They propose a "Know Your Customer" (KYC) requirement for advertisers and a transparent repeat infringer policy to address the issue.

• Researchers found messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India, which violates Meta’s policies prohibiting firearm sales.
• The names and descriptions of some groups contain references to gun sales, which can easily be monitored by WhatsApp.
• The company has faced similar allegations globally. Earlier studies found instances of firearms-related advertisements on Meta’s platforms in the U.S. and the European Union.

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Distressing news and traumatic stories can cause stress and anxiety – not only in humans, but also in AI language models, such as ChatGPT. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich have now shown that these models, like humans, respond to therapy: an elevated “anxiety level” in GPT-4 can be “calmed down” using mindfulness-based relaxation techniques.

A court in Murcia, Spain, has ordered Google to testify in a criminal case concerning IPTV app, NewPlay. Football league LaLiga, whose matches were allegedly offered illegally through the app, previously called for the directors of Google, Apple, and Huawei to face criminal charges. LaLiga criticized the companies for failing to disable copies of NewPlay already installed on users' devices. Google and Huawei must now testify as 'profit-making participants' in an alleged piracy scheme.

In response to several court orders, Cloudflare geoblocked more than 400 sports streaming piracy domain names on its pass-through service in France last year. Notably. Cloudflare says that, despite requests, it has not blocked any websites through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver. That last comment is relevant to the renewed site blocking push in the United States.

• We are investigating how TikTok uses 13–17-year-olds' personal information to make recommendations to them
• We also announce we are investigating how Reddit and Imgur assess the age of their child UK users
• Investigations are part of our wider interventions into how social media and video sharing platforms use children's data