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The amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online surged by 14% in 2025, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The watchdog identified 8,029 AI-made images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse material (CSAM) last year.The IWF reported a 260-fold increase in videos, with 65% of the 3,443 videos classified as category A, the most severe type under UK law. This is compared to 43% of non-AI videos. Kerry Smith, IWF chief executive, emphasized that advances in technology should not come at the expense of a child's safety and wellbeing.The IWF also found that offenders are discussing the potential of AI systems to create more realistic and violent content, including adding audio to videos or manipulating imagery of real children. The UK government has announced plans to test AI tools to prevent CSAM and introduced legislation to ban AI models designed to generate child sexual abuse material.Eight out of 10 UK adults want the government to introduce legislation ensuring AI systems are developed with safety as a priority. The IWF operates a hotline and has a global remit to monitor child sexual abuse content.

Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of the adult content platform OnlyFans, has passed away at the age of 43 after a prolonged battle with cancer. The company announced his death on Monday, stating that he passed away peacefully.Radvinsky, a Ukrainian-American billionaire, had a net worth of about $3.8 billion as of May 2025. He acquired OnlyFans' parent company, Fenix International Limited, in 2018 and served as the company's director and majority shareholder. Born in Odesa, he grew up in Chicago and studied economics at Northwestern University.According to reports, Radvinsky began running pornography sites as a teenager. OnlyFans, founded in 2016, is best known for allowing adult film actors and sex workers to monetize their content through a subscription-based model. The company typically takes a 20% cut of payments, leaving creators with 80% of the revenue.In recent months, Radvinsky had been in talks to sell a 60% stake in OnlyFans in a deal that would have valued the company at around $8 billion. He had moved his ownership to a trust in 2024. OnlyFans has faced controversy, including a 2024 Reuters investigation that reported on women who claimed to have been sexually enslaved to make money from the site.Despite efforts to expand beyond sexually explicit content, pornographic material remains OnlyFans' best-known product. The platform has been used by various creators, including Olympians and teachers, who have turned to the site as a way to supplement their income.

Jenni Murray, a trailblazing broadcaster and longest-serving presenter of Woman's Hour, has died at the age of 75. Murray brought a unique calm authority to the BBC Radio 4 weekday show for an impressive 33 years, transforming it into a platform for discussing subjects such as the menopause, domestic violence, genital mutilation, and sexual politics.Under Murray's tenure, which began in 1987, Woman's Hour evolved significantly from its origins in 1946 as a program focused on cooking, cleaning tips, and romantic serials. By the time Murray took over, the show had become a sisterhood of the airwaves, as described by the Sunday Times in 1996.Murray was renowned for her fearless and thoughtful questioning of guests, which included politicians, film stars, authors, poets, chefs, gardeners, lawyers, and anxious parents. One notable interview was with Margaret Thatcher in 1990, where Murray exposed the ideological differences between the feminist approach and Thatcher's views on childcare and gender equality.Murray also conducted incisive interviews with other prominent figures, including Edwina Currie, who revealed her affair with John Major, and Tessa Jowell, discussing her financial decisions. Her conversations were marked by a flair for the dramatic and a deep empathy for her guests.Throughout her career, Murray was not without controversy. In 2017, she faced backlash for an article she wrote questioning the use of the term 'real woman' by trans individuals. The BBC subsequently warned her about maintaining impartiality on controversial topics.Murray's contributions to broadcasting were widely recognized. She was awarded an OBE in 1999 and a dame in 2011. Woman's Hour won the Television and Radio Industries Club's award for best radio program in 2004, and Murray received two Sony awards in 2010 and 2011.Murray's legacy extends beyond her broadcasting career. She was a champion of women's rights and a prolific author, writing several books, including her memoirs and a history of women's suffrage.

Lemi Limbu, a woman with severe intellectual disabilities in Tanzania, has had her conviction and death sentence quashed after spending more than a decade in prison awaiting execution. Limbu, now in her early 30s, was convicted of the murder of her daughter in 2015.On 4 March, a court in Shinyanga, northern Tanzania, declared she can appeal. She will face a retrial, but a date has yet to be set. Lawyers and activists have condemned her sentence, saying she should not be in prison at all. Limbu, who remains incarcerated, is a survivor of brutal and repeated sexual and domestic violence and has the developmental age of a child.Under Tanzanian and international law, Limbu should not be held criminally liable, given her intellectual disability. “She was not supposed to be in prison in the first place,” said Anna Henga, executive director of Legal and Human Rights Centre, a Tanzanian human rights advocacy organisation.At her first trial, Limbu pleaded not guilty. Unable to read or write, she said she did not know the contents of a statement that police claimed she had made admitting to the murder. Her original conviction in 2015 was nullified in 2019 due to procedural errors. In 2022, she was retried and sentenced to death a second time.The court did not allow evidence to be heard from medical professionals about her intellectual disabilities or history of abuse. A clinical psychologist who evaluated her had concluded she had a severe intellectual disability and the developmental age of a 10-year-old child or younger.A coalition of 24 African and international human rights groups last year condemned Limbu’s sentence as part of an appeal to the African court on human and peoples’ rights to look at the plight of women on death row throughout Africa. In Tanzania, the death penalty is the mandatory sentence for murder, although no executions have been carried out since 1995.