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Generative AI Is the Newest Tool in the Dictator’s Handbook

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When protests in Pakistan earlier this year escalated into clashes between pro-government forces and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the now-imprisoned leader turned to social media to bolster his message. Khan shared this brief video clip on Twitter showing his supporters holding up signs with his face on them and chanting his name. The clip ends with a still shot of a woman in an orange dress boldly standing face to face with a line of heavily armored riot police.

“What will never be forgotten is the brutality of our security forces and the shameless way they went out of their way to abuse, hurt, and humiliate our women,” Khan tweeted. The only problem: The image showing the woman bravely standing before the police wasn’t real. It was created using one of many new AI image generators.

Source: Generative AI Is the Newest Tool in the Dictator’s Handbook

Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks – Slashdot – Middle East Triangle

“The industry has been slow to come to terms with the issue, leaving flight crews alone to find ways of detecting and mitigating GPS spoofing.” If air crews do realize that something is amiss, Humphreys said, their only recourse is to depend on air traffic control…

Source: Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks – Slashdot

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says | Gaza | The Guardian

Mosab Abu Toha poet from Gaza.

A celebrated Palestinian poet and author, Mosab Abu Toha, has been arrested by Israeli forces while trying to leave Gaza, according to his friends and family.

Abu Toha had been told by US officials that he and his family would be able to cross into Egypt, as one of his children is an American citizen. They were on the way from north to south Gaza, heading for the Rafah crossing point on Sunday, when he was arrested along with other Palestinian men at a Israeli military checkpoint.

“The army took Mosab when he arrived at the checkpoint, leaving from the north to the south, as the army had ordered. The American embassy sent him and his family to go through the Rafah crossing,” the poet’s brother, Hamza, said on social media. “We have heard nothing from him.”

Source: Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says | Gaza | The Guardian