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AI advances could lead to more child sexual abuse videos, watchdog warns

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 05:00

IWF warns of more AI-made child sexual abuse videos as tools behind them get more widespread and easier to use

Advances in artificial intelligence are being used by paedophiles to produce AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse that could increase in volume as the technology improves, according to a safety watchdog.

The majority of such cases seen by the Internet Watch Foundation involve manipulation of existing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or adult pornography, with a child’s face transplanted on to the footage. A handful of examples involve entirely AI-made videos lasting about 20 seconds, the IWF said.

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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 18 July - 14:37

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms. .

Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on the M25 over four days in November 2022.

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Britain’s system for tackling wrongful convictions failed me spectacularly. Overhaul the CCRC now | Andrew Malkinson

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 18 July - 14:30

A scathing new report lays bare the inadequacy of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. I’d like to see resignations

‘Catalogue of failures’: watchdog missed chances to help Andrew Malkinson, report finds

On 30 March 2004, I was sentenced to life in prison for a crime I did not commit. As I was being led to the cells, I told the courtroom, loudly: “I am completely innocent.” But no one listened, and to borrow a quote from Robinson Crusoe, one of my favourite childhood books, I found myself “cast upon a horrible, desolate island”: the English prison system.

I emerged from that system after spending more than 17 years behind bars, having finally been granted the parole that had been denied many times before because I had continued to protest my innocence. It took a further two and a half years of fighting before, at last, I was able to stand outside the Royal Courts of Justice a free, exonerated man .

Andrew Malkinson is a former prisoner rebuilding his life after he was wrongfully convicted in 2004 of a stranger rape in the Greater Manchester area

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Murder investigation launched after man shot dead in Merseyside

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 18 July - 09:40

Police patrols stepped up in area after man, 36, killed in Kirkby on Wednesday evening

A murder investigation has been launched after a 36-year-old man was shot dead on the streets of Merseyside.

Police said they received a report at 6.35pm on Wednesday from the North West ambulance service that a man had been shot in Kirkby.

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Man in US court over UK crash that left nurse unable to walk

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 July - 20:39

Issac Calderon, who was said to be working ‘with the secret service’, faces possible extradition hearing at a later date

A US citizen who allegedly left a mental health nurse unable to walk for six weeks after a car crash in the UK has appeared in a Texas court a year on from the collision.

Issac Calderon, who gave his name to the authorities as Isac Alejandro Calderon, appeared in a federal court in the southern district of Texas on Monday regarding a potential extradition to the UK.

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Nine-year-old shot in Hackney may never again ‘speak or move properly’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 July - 08:09

Police renew appeal for information on motorcyclist who fired into restaurant where girl was having family meal out

A young girl who was shot while having a family meal in London may never again “speak or move properly”, her parents have said.

The nine-year-old was shot in a Turkish restaurant in Hackney north-east London on 29 May by a man on a motorbike, who fired at least four rounds towards the restaurant. Her parents were sitting with her at the time.

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Police start new search for remains of murdered Muriel McKay

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 July - 21:11

Victim died in kidnap-for-ransom in Hertfordshire 54 years ago after being mistaken for then-wife of Rupert Murdoch

Police have begun a new search for the remains of Muriel McKay, who was murdered in a kidnap-for-ransom case more than 54 years ago.

Nizamodeen Hosein and his brother, Arthur, mistook McKay, 55, for Anna Murdoch, the then-wife of the newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch, when they kidnapped her. The pair held McKay at a farm in Hertfordshire and demanded a £1m ransom.

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Inside the biggest art fraud in US history - podcast

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 July - 02:00

Orlando Whitfield, the author of All That Glitters, on his years of friendship with the art fraudster Inigo Philbrick

Orlando Whitfield , the author of All That Glitters , tells Michael Safi about his former friendship with Inigo Philbrick, who was sentenced to seven years in 2022 for wire fraud and ordered to forfeit $86m (£68m).

As students at Goldsmiths University in London, Whitfield and Philbrick decided to start dealing in art together . They sold their first piece for €15,000 (£12,600).

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Fears UK prisons face ‘collapse’ as they could be full before early release scheme begins

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 13 July - 13:00

With Labour plan not coming into effect until September, ex-prison governor says emergency measures can only ‘keep a lid on things’

Prisons could still hit full capacity within weeks despite new emergency measures announced by Labour to release some prisoners early .

An unprecedented move to cut the time served in custody for most sentences to 40% will not come into effect until September, and officials fear that capacity will be overwhelmed by the end of August. The justice secretary has described the situation as a “ticking timebomb”.