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India Today
8 hours ago
- India Today
Assam man circulates AI-morphed images of ex-girlfriend, arrested
In a cyber defamation case, the Dibrugarh Police have arrested the prime accused, Pratim Bora, for circulating morphed and explicit images of a woman on multiple social media platforms using advanced AI the woman's former boyfriend, allegedly used advanced AI tools to superimpose her face onto pornographic visuals, falsely portraying her as part of the adult film industry and claiming she resided in the United defamatory content sparked outrage across Assam. However, police have confirmed that the images were entirely fabricated and intended to malign the woman's reputation following a personal fallout. Acting on a complaint filed by the victim, Ms Phukan, the cybercrime unit launched an investigation that led to Bora's arrest. During interrogation, Bora admitted to using AI-powered platforms such as Midjourney AI, Desire AI, and OpenArt AI to create the morphed images. He also created multiple fake Gmail accounts and social media profiles to upload and circulate the are currently verifying all the digital identities linked to the accused. The case has been registered at Dibrugarh Police Station under Dib PS Case No. 234/25, invoking Sections 336(4), 356(2), 74, 75, 294, and 351(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), covering offences like cyber harassment, defamation, obscenity, and invasion of accused is in police custody and will be produced before the court today, where the police plan to seek a seven-day remand for further interrogation and digital evidence the developments, Sizal Agarwal, SP-in-charge, said, 'Yes, the accused used AI tools to create and circulate the images. We have sought data from multiple agencies to assist in the investigation.'She also issued a stern warning, saying, 'Any individual found forwarding, sharing, or making abusive comments on the defamatory content even after knowing the facts-will come under legal scrutiny.' Agarwal appealed to the public to remain sensitive to the emotional trauma faced by the victim and to extend support.- EndsMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Assam
The Verge
2 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
More Gemini in Gmail.
More Gemini in Gmail. In May, Google started showing Gemini-powered summaries at the top of some Gmail threads on mobile, and now the company says it's rolling them out on the web.
Forbes
2 days ago
- Forbes
New Google Gmail Upgrade For 2 Billion Users — Email Just Got Safer
This Gmail upgrade makes managing your email more secure than ever. When it comes to email, the free platform that is used more than any other is Gmail by Google. With 2 billion users, sending an estimated 350 billion emails every day, it's hardly surprising that Gmail is popular among cybercriminals as well as consumers. With everything from a myriad of password attacks, to sophisticated AI-powered phishing scams, Gmail, like all email platforms, is an attack surface that requires your full attention. Google has thankfully just upgraded Gmail with a critical tool to help protect against a gravely underrated threat. The Gmail Security Upgrade You Didn't Realize You Needed Most Google security upgrades are fairly self-explanatory: patches for newly discovered Chrome vulnerabilities, passkeys to replace less secure passwords, sender verification for Google Messages all fall into this category. Some, however, are not and do not. Gmail subscription management fixes a security issue you probably didn't know you had, but that doesn't make it any less critical. The security issue is that of unsubscribing from spam. While Gmail has always done a great job of filtering spam from view, some makes it into your inbox, and some can be rather persistent as it comes in the guise of a legitimate marketing email. However, unsubscribing can be a dangerous affair. How so? Well, unsubscribe links in emails can take you to malicious sites or malicious downloads. This has been a known weapon in the phishing arsenal for years. Gmail has had the perfect defensive protection for some time as well: one-click unsubscribe. The problem is that it wasn't available to all users. It is now, as Google is going global with the subscription management upgrade for Gmail. Not only does this bring a handy one-pane-of-glass view to your email subscriptions, sorted by most frequent sender and displaying just how many emails each has sent, but adds an unsubscribe button. Rather than having to visit a potentially dangerous site yourself or risk a potentially malicious download, Gmail handles the unsubscribe request safely on your behalf. 'Alongside our efforts to keep inboxes safe,' Chris Doan, director of Gmail, said, 'we've also prioritized giving users even more control over the messages they want to receive.' The new manage subscriptions feature has already started to roll out and, Doan said, you can 'click on any of the senders for a direct view of all the emails they've sent.' Once available to you, you'll find it in the navigation bar in the top-left corner of your inbox.
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mirror
Google is fixing huge issue with your Gmail inbox - free upgrade is coming soon
Google is releasing a major Gmail upgrade that will help fix a massive issue with your email inbox. There's a big change coming to Gmail, and it's going to help end the nightmare of an overflowing inbox. Google has just confirmed that it's bringing a new "Manage subscriptions" function to its popular software, which does exactly what it says on the tin. Via this new area in the Gmail settings, users will be able to quickly see all active subscriptions along with how many messages have been sent out by companies during the past few weeks. If a firm is pestering too much - or the messages simply are relevant anymore - there will be a one-touch option to unsubscribe rather than spending ages trying to work out how to do it manually. Once tapped, Gmail will do all the hard work and send an unsubscribe request to the sender. READ MORE: Sky is dishing out a massive upgrade, but only if your postcode is on this list "It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of subscription emails clogging your inbox: Daily deal alerts that are basically spam, weekly newsletters from blogs you no longer read, promotional emails from retailers you haven't shopped in years can quickly pile up,' Google explained. 'With Gmail's new "Manage subscriptions" feature, you can view and manage your subscription emails, making it easy to unsubscribe from the ones you no longer want all from a single place." Sound enticing? To find this view, click the navigation bar in the top-left corner of your inbox and select 'Manage subscriptions.' Google says that the ability to manage subscriptions in Gmail is rolling out now on web, Android and iOS to select countries. Alongside giving users even more control over the messages they want to receive Google is also boasting that it now blocks more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware. The tech giant has also recently rolled out new AI-based defenses which cut scam emails by 35%.
Mint
3 days ago
- Business
- Mint
Are you a member of the inbox zero club?
Srijan Shetty opens WhatsApp to the Unread chat filter tab. It's his default view, a digital gateway that takes him straight to conversations demanding attention. For the Dubai-based fintech entrepreneur, it's not just a feature—it's a lifestyle that's defined his relationship with technology for 15 years, ever since he first got email in college at IIT Kanpur. 'I even mark OTP messages as read in the messages app," Shetty says, and when I ask who doesn't, he shrugs. 'I know people who don't care about piling messages as long as they got the OTP and used it." It's something I'll never understand either. We are the 'inbox zero" people—a minority that has begun to feel seen and heard by platforms. WhatsApp started beta-testing different chat filters to organise our communication logs better around March 2024. A few months ago, I noticed I had got multiple filter tabs–All, Unread, Favourites, Groups–sitting innocuously at the top of my chat list. For people like Shetty and me, that Unread chat tab is an acknowledgement that some of us need to see our unfinished business laid out clearly. The thrill of tackling my unread messages tab on WhatsApp reminds me of the first time someone told me about Gmail's 'label: unread"command. Life-altering doesn't begin to explain the joy of this discovery for me. I also recall how in 2013, Gmail introduced Primary, Social, and Promotions tabs—and crucially, made only the Primary tab count toward your unread email tally. Recently, WhatsApp announced the launch of Message Summaries through its blog, calling it 'a new option that uses Meta AI to privately and quickly summarise unread messages in a chat, so you can get an idea of what is happening, before reading the details in your unread messages." As someone who has manually turned off email summaries, I'm excited to see how this feature caters to the inbox-zero person in me who also likes to note the little details. As Amrita Tripathi, a Delhi-based author and founder of The Health Collective that focuses on mental health, points out: 'Piled up unread emails and messages can seem like white noise, they can be anxiety-inducing if you're built a certain way." So she looks for hacks: archive chats, leave groups, mark things as unread if they are important but not urgent, find ways to manage the digital overwhelm, essentially. 'Let's face it, most of the emails and messages we get are trash," Tripathi adds. 'So this feels like trash piling up, and clearing it out gives the same feeling as clearing out trash from your house." It's not like we get nightmares about unread messages. I do, however, remember the unread counts on almost every platform: WhatsApp, Gmail, work email, Instagram DMs. But it's like unfinished business you need to get to at some point. When I clear them all, the orderly and organised person in me feels good. It's a chance to give myself a pat on the back—a positive affirmation-ary activity that fuels my sense of accomplishment. This is why these features matter. They're not just tools—they're acknowledgements of our particular way of being in the world. Even though the platforms might be doing this to bring in mass efficiency, because not everyone can afford premium email management apps or plug-ins for messaging apps, each bulk unsubscribe feature, each smart categorisation, each unread filter feels to us like a platform saying: We see you, inbox zero person. Your need for digital order is valid.
