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Paris (AFP) - Meta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by US politicians of damaging the mental health of youngsters. Gangs run sextortion scams by persuading people to provide explicit images of themselves and then threatening to release them to the public unless they receive money. Meta said it was testing an AI-driven "nudity protection" tool that would find and blur images containing nudity that were sent to minors on the app's messaging system. "This way, the recipient is not expose...
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Summer is creeping up on us fast and with it comes the promise of escaping in the sun. It’s a chance to unwind, sink your toes in the sand and forget about everything else. But what exactly does the perfect beach holiday look like? Retreat booking platform BookRetreats has ranked beaches across 16 European countries based on what they say travellers value the most: popularity, weather, safety, accessibility and water quality. Using data from Google reviews, safety rankings from the Global Peace Index and water quality information from the European Environment Agency (EEA), each location was gi...
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A 39-year-old man has become the first person to be jailed in England under a new “cyberflashing” law that came into effect this year. Nicholas Hawkes was sentenced on Tuesday to a total of 66 weeks in prison. He received 52 weeks for “cyberflashing” which became a crime on January 31 after the Online Safety Act became law late last year. The 2023 Online Safety Act created a new criminal offence for sending photographs or films of one’s genitals to cause distress, which has been called cyberflashing. “Cyberflashing is a serious crime which leaves a lasting impact on victims, but all too often ...
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As officials investigate what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand, a passenger on Tuesday described a wild ride, with people without seatbelts thrown from their seats and some crashing into the plane's ceiling. At least 50 people were injured on Monday by what LATAM Airlines described as a “strong movement” on the Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner later landed at Auckland Airport as scheduled and was due to continue on to Santiago, Chile. “The plane, unannounced, just dropp...
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On the 28th of February last year Greece was left mourning when when a passenger train carrying 350 people collided with a freight train operating on the same track. The two trains were operating at high speed before they crashed into each other, with the front carriages bursting into flames upon impact. Only one young man was rescued from the worst impacted carriages, who remains in hospital. The train crash, the deadliest in the nation's history, prompted three days of mourning and nationwide protests. A year later, the streets of Athens are full of demonstrators arguing that the ongoing inq...
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Flying in Europe is at its safest level since records began, according to new research from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Findings in their 2023 annual safety report for global aviation show that, in Europe alone, the ‘all accident’ rate improved from 0.98 per million sectors in 2022 down to 0.48 accidents in 2023. That statistic is significantly better than the continent’s 5-year average of 0.77 accidents per million. Better still, Europe has had a fatality risk of zero since 2018. Interestingly, the largest proportion of recorded accidents were down to landing gear coll...
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Washington (AFP) - US regulators on Tuesday called on Amazon to improve its safety protocols after six people were killed in December when a tornado hit one of the company's warehouses in the state of Illinois. An investigation into the deaths found that workers did not know where to go for shelter during the storm, and that a megaphone meant to communicate with employees was "locked in a cage and not accessible," the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said in a letter to the e-commerce giant. "These tragic deaths have sparked discussions nationwide on the ...
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New York (AFP) - Just over 4,000 sexual assaults that occurred during Lyft trips were reported to the US ride-hailing company from 2017-2019, the firm said in its first-ever safety report. California-based Lyft, which faces sex assault lawsuits from passengers, had pledged transparency in 2019 after rival Uber released a report on safety matters. Lyft says that while sexual violence is statistically rare, it is a serious problem. "Behind every report is a real person and real experience, and our goal is to make each Lyft ride as safe as we possibly can," Jennifer Brandenburger, Lyft's direct...
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San Francisco (AFP) - German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer lost another appeal against a verdict that found its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, the latest setback in its bid to end thousands of lawsuits over the product. An appeals court in San Francisco on Monday upheld the 2019 ruling in favor of a couple who claimed they got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using Roundup for years. The court also upheld a judge's decision to reduce the jury's compensation award to Alva and Alberta Pilliod from $2 billion to $86.7 million. Bayer has been plagued by problems since it bought Monsanto, ...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States' top infectious disease official said Thursday that two coronavirus vaccines being tested were "solid," and that the speed at which they were developed has not compromised safety or integrity.Anthony Fauci spoke at a rare briefing from the White House virus task force to reassure some public concerns about the two vaccines -- one from Pfizer/BioNTech and the other by Moderna -- after both companies announced successful trials."The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety nor did it compromise scientific integrity. It was a reflection of the ext...
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