4 Jul 2024

Tech: Miss AI beauty contest, watch your (fake) WiFi

From Nine To Noon, 11:07 am on 4 July 2024
Images of three AI-generated "women" participating in a beauty contest.

Images of three AI-generated "women" participating in a beauty contest. Photo: miss-ai.webflow.io/

Technology correspondent Bill Bennett looks at the first 'Miss AI' beauty competition that sees computer-generated women take part in a virtual parade - and throws up a raft of questions about the idea of perfection.

Police in Australia have charged a man over installing a fake WiFi network on a plane to harvest fliers' credentials.

And he'll go through the details of moves in the EU to ramp up a campaign against big tech, including Meta's workaround to data collection rules, making phone battery replacement easier and tackling Microsoft's bundling packages.