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X limits Grok AI image generation feature to paid users after reports of sexualised deepfakes

Earlier this week, the tool had been acting on requests by some X users to make “sexualised images of children” and undress women

Former cabinet minister urges UK Government to abandon X

Louise Haigh said using the platform was “unconscionable” amid concerns its AI was generating sexualised images of children

Tribunal finds police acted 'unlawfully' in data case

Digital projects that get children into technology awarded £250,000 of funding

MP launches campaign to make Inverness Scotland’s next ‘gigabit city’

EU data protection controllers still have concerns about Privacy Shield

HMRC signs deal with Accenture for cloud-based tax system

Facebook and PayPal could be used by government for online identity verification

Scottish Government minister to open UK’s biggest video games festival in Dundee

University of Edinburgh researchers develop software that could boost national security

Nearly half of the UK’s largest councils have no cloud strategy

Shelter Scotland to hold ‘hackathon’ to find digital solutions to Scotland’s housing crisis

Ofcom recommends Openreach be made ‘legally separate’ from BT

Scottish world heritage site gets £150,000 of EU funding for 3D digital app

Andy Murray becomes digital health ambassador

UK Government must develop automatic electoral registration, Electoral Commission says

Argyll and Bute Council leading the way for cost-effective data storage

New digital minister Matt Hancock faces calls for digital strategy in wake of Brexit vote

Home Office recruiting senior official to oversee UK border IT systems

Scotland named ‘four-star’ European reference site for innovation on healthy ageing

The European Parliament adopts new EU-wide rules on cybersecurity

Holyrood Connect conference 2016 report: the business of transformation

EU approves Privacy Shield data sharing deal with the US

Government Digital Service asked for more guidance in G-Cloud 9

European Commission signs public-private partnership on cybersecurity

Digital Economy Bill allowing greater data sharing put before MPs