Prompting AI to undress someone is not free speech. Limiting such content is not censorship. Elon Musk would disagree. However, social media platforms that once promised to be a catalyst for democracy and pluralism are now invoking humanity's most primal instincts.

A few years back, only a master in Photoshop could craft a fake nude picture convincingly. With AI in the picture, it takes only mere seconds to strip someone of their clothes.

With Grok AI, all users had to do was tag Grok in X comments to get what they wanted. Not only would it comply with borderline illegal requests, but those pictures would immediately become public. Haters rendered naked feminists to intimidate them, and women were stripped of their hijabs to take a jab at their religion.

It's not a coincidence that this is Musk's tool. You don't see ChatGPT spitting out nudes, do you? Musk claims to be a believer in free speech and speaks against censorship. And when content moderation is not there, we get posts glorifying Hitler or pictures of stripped kids getting shared on X.

But Grok or no Grok, the possibility to create a deepfake of whatever you want in mere seconds is there. There are numerous tools even marketed to target ex-spouses, and it is not OK.

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I hope that this recent scandal will be a significant catalyst to jumpstart discussions in countries worldwide on how to restrict access to social media content and how to hold these platforms accountable.

Europeans, given the current political climate and the rising geopolitical tensions between the US and the rest of the world, are looking for alternatives to tech made in the US.

This is what we've been mostly focusing on for the past few weeks, and here are the top 5 articles by Cybernews journalists. Enjoy!

Europeans quietly shift away from US tech services, share lists of local alternatives

A new wave of online lists is mapping out European alternatives to everyday apps and platforms, encouraging users to switch from US tech platforms and instead support local innovation, reclaiming control of their digital lives.

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As Donald Trump revives talk of taking Greenland, Danes are fleeing to Signal in record numbers.

Europe has powerful weapons against Trump and his tech bros. Will it use them?

The European Union (EU) may have lost the battle for the internet, but it still has some secret weapons against the United States (US) in the war for its digital sovereignty.

“Political hot potato:” What can governments do about Grok’s sexualized deepfakes?

Officials across Europe, Asia, and Australia have been looking into xAI’s chatbot Grok's production of unconsented explicit deepfakes of women and children. However, the current political climate may help X to avoid real punishment.

I updated from Windows 10 to Linux, and I’m not going back

At some point, I had four different versions of Steam installed on Ubuntu, and only one of them was working properly. Flatpak is amazing – it solves all the major frustrations I had with Linux.

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