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Elon Musk's xAI is taking Minnesota to court over a newly passed law that would ban so-called nudify apps — software capable of generating nonconsensual intimate imagery. The company is framing it as a First Amendment fight, but critics argue the law exists to protect real people from real harm. It's a collision between free speech doctrine and personal safety that courts will now have to untangle.
Meanwhile, a background check firm called iFacts has exposed roughly twenty-one thousand sensitive files belonging to South African citizens. The breach included identity documents, financial records, and personal data — the kind of information that becomes a toolkit for identity theft. It's a reminder that the companies holding the most sensitive data are often the ones with the least public scrutiny.
And on the generational cybersecurity front, a new Kaspersky study finds that Gen Z, despite growing up entirely online, is surprisingly lax about digital safety. Only twenty-seven percent use antivirus software on mobile devices, and fewer than thirty percent regularly back up their data. Familiarity with technology, it turns out, does not automatically translate into caution about it.
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