rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warn

Meta has sparked blowback from privacy advocates for allowing its new AI image maker to generate photos of users with public profiles by default.

Users of <a href="Meta’s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="tp-feedurl" title="" >https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/">Meta’s Muse Image AI tool, released Tuesday, can tag public Instagram profiles and generate pictures that pull from faces of people featured in these social media posts. Instagram users aren’t notified when their posts are integrated into what the company describes as its “most advanced image generation model yet”.

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that might make them irresistible. Morocco no doubt had the best of intentions, ideas of how they could hurt the side that had beaten them in the semi-final in Qatar, but France press so well that they soon accepted they had no option but to retreat and endure, and France have such attacking quality that simply surviving isn’t really a viable option.

Kylian Mbappé, once again, was the key figure, missing a penalty, scoring a stunning opener and then teeing up Ousmane Dembélé for the second. He went off with 13 minutes remaining to a deserved ovation: the game had seemed to be drifting, and there had just been a sense that Morocco might conceivably pull off an implausible rearguard action, when he produced a goal from nowhere.

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attack on Donald Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show in June

Eight men were indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges Thursday for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and sniper attack on the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House in June.

The indictment, returned in Ohio, charges all eight in two separate conspiracies, one to provide material support to terrorists and a second to commit murder on federal government territory and to murder a federal government official.

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presents video of a prosecutor interviewing Lance Twiggs

Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old charged with murdering far-right pundit Charlie Kirk, cried and told his then-roommate Lance Twiggs “he wishes he hadn’t done it” one day after the fatal shooting, according to testimony played Thursday in court.

On the fourth day of a hearing to determine whether the case has probable cause to proceed to trial, the state presented the video of a prosecutor interviewing Twiggs, after <a href="back-and-forth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="tp-feedurl" title="" >https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/dna-evidence-charlie-kirk-killing-suspect">back-and-forth on Wednesday over whether publicly broadcasting the testimony could expose potential jurors to prejudicial information.

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