A stunning Miss England semi–finalist has been revealed, but there's a huge catch – she is AI–generated. The Miss England pageant has launched a brand new AI round, featuring computer–generated beauty queens. Glamorous contestants can now walk down a virtual catwalk by making digital twin avatars of themselves as part of the Black Mirror–style qualifying round. Organisers believe they are the first beauty pageant in the world to introduce a digital AI round which will help'reflect the world' the young women are stepping into. The contest has already axed its bikini swimwear round in a bid to move away from outdated pageant stereotypes and replaced it was a CPR round teaching life–saving skills.

A new type of email attack is quietly targeting 1.8 billion Gmail users without them ever noticing. Hackers are using Google Gemini, the AI built-in tool in Gmail and Workspace, to trick users into handing over their credentials. Cybersecurity experts found that bad actors are sending emails with hidden instructions that prompt Gemini to generate fake phishing warnings, tricking users into sharing their account password or visiting malicious sites. These emails are crafted to appear urgent and sometimes from a business. By setting the font size to zero and the text color to white, attackers can insert prompts invisible to users but actionable by Gemini.

Today's youngsters will never know the painstaking task of going to a library and searching for an article or a particular book. This tedious undertaking involved hours upon hours of trawling through drawers filled with index cards – typically sorted by author, title or subject. An explosion in research publications during the 1940s made it especially time-consuming to locate what you wanted, especially as this was before the invention of the internet. Now, an expert has lifted the lid on the man and the device that changed everything – and it could also be the key to surviving AI. Dr Martin Rudorfer, a lecturer in Computer Science at Aston University, said an American engineer called Vannevar Bush first came up with a solution, dubbed the'memex'.

Robert Hanssen was the most damaging spy in American history. A senior FBI agent turned traitor, he sold classified secrets to Russia for more than two decades, compromising US intelligence at the highest levels. I was the undercover operative assigned to stop him. Working inside FBI headquarters, I became Hanssen's assistant in name, while secretly gathering the evidence that would lead to his arrest. That operation became the basis of my book Gray Day and the film Breach, in which Ryan Phillippe portrayed me. Since then, my path has evolved.

Elon Musk's latest business venture just rolled out an updated service map that has all of social media convinced he's trolling his critics with a juvenile image. Over the weekend, Musk's electric car company Tesla unveiled the expanded area where Robotaxi will be operating in Austin, Texas. Robotaxi launched in June in a small, geofenced portion of the city, meaning the self-driving cars could not operate anywhere else. It's not Robotaxi's expansion that's raising eyebrows, but the oddly shaped coverage zone, which many on social media insist resembles a phallus. Musk himself posted an enlarged image of the new Robotaxi map on X Monday morning with no comment. While Tesla CEO wouldn't say this phallic-shaped map was done intentionally as a joke, his followers on X quickly pounced on the alleged prank.

Users of a naturally occurring psychedelic drug are convinced they've encountered real alien beings, including'machine elves,' which inhabit a realm beyond our Earth. These machine elves, described as chattering, mischievous entities, consistently appear in the visions of those who take DMT, which one neuroscientist suggested could mean users are actually entering a shared alien reality. DMT (or N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is present in thousands of plants, including ayahuasca, which is used in religious ceremonies, but is also present in small amounts within the human body. Dr Andrew Gallimore, who has a PhD was in biological chemistry and has studied computational neuroscience, said he encountered these beings firsthand after being transported to a hyper-dimensional world teeming with intelligent lifeforms. Unlike earthly creatures, these beings - ranging from insectoids to God-like figures -seem to exist in a space that defies our three-dimensional understanding.

It has been over 40,000 years since the last of the Neanderthals, our ancient human cousins, disappeared from the Earth. But from the shape of your nose to whether someone is an early riser, Neanderthal genes are still shaping many of our lives today. Starting from around 250,000 years ago, ancient homo sapiens and Neanderthals met, lived alongside each other, and often had children together. Now, MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what those hybrid children would have looked like. Scientists believe that hybrid children would inherit traits from both of their parents.

In the battle for AI supremacy, Meta has just made a major move. Mark Zuckerberg's firm – which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – has lured a renowned AI expert away from rival Apple with an eye-watering pay offer. Over the next'several years', Ruoming Pang, originally from China, will earn more than 200 million ( 147 million) in his new role, a report reveals. The'unusually high' earnings package is among the highest of any corporate job, including CEO roles at the world's major banks, the report adds. Mr Pang becomes a high-ranking member of Meta's mysterious new'superintelligence' lab, thought to be based in California.

Elon Musk's AI firm has been forced to delete posts after the Grok chatbot praised Hitler and made a string of deeply antisemitic posts. The company xAI said it had removed'inappropriate' social media posts today following complaints from users. These posts followed Musk's announcement that he was taking measures to ensure the AI bot was more'politically incorrect'. Over the following days, the AI began repeatedly referring to itself as'MechaHitler' and said that Hitler would have'plenty' of solutions to'restore family values' to America. In a post on X, xAI wrote: 'We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. 'Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. 'xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.'

AI tools are being fed artists' songs to'learn' their vocal styles and musical hallmarks before being able to generate brand new approximations, with new lyrics and melody (file photo) But it appears The Velvet Sundown is not the only fake artist on Spotify, which has more than 600 million users worldwide. According to a report last year from The Week, Spotify is becoming inundated with unlicensed covers of songs generated by AI.