An app that allows users to deepfake their appearance in realtime has predictably resulted in a streamer making nonconsensual and potentially defamatory content. Specifically, the streamer made himself look like Mr. Beast and said “I love touching little boys’ pee pees.”

Sam Pepper, a British internet personality known for videos and streams in which he harasses people with so-called pranks, and who has been banned from multiple platforms, used the realtime deepfake app on Kick, a streaming platform and Twitch competitor known for its loose moderation policies. 

Initially, Pepper made himself look like a seemingly random woman, but then switched his appearance to look like real people including Mr. Beast, Jeffrey Epstein, Amouranth, and Sydney Sweeney. When he appeared as one of the women, Pepper showed his AI-generated body to the camera, pulled up her dress, and played with her AI-generated breasts. 

The app Pepper used, called Delulu, offers users the ability to appear as any of these celebrities out of a menu of likenesses the app calls “skins,” many of which are created by Delulu users. Delulu users can make themselves look like animals, cartoons, and fictional characters, but also real people like George Floyd, politicians like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, or celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Eminem. The site also includes skins for a number of adult performers. All users have to do to change their appearance is give the app access to their camera and click on one of these skins. Much like Civitai and other platforms and communities for sharing custom AI models, Delulu allows users to create and share their own models. All the skins Pepper showed on Stream appear to be user-generated. 

The result is not as convincing as some other pieces of software that allow people to deepfake their appearance in real time, but is free and easy to use. For example, we recently wrote about Haotian AI, a Chinese-language realtime deepfake software that’s marketed to scammers. Haotian AI costs thousands of dollars, is difficult to install, and requires a powerful video card. 

Delulu is just one of several AI video products from Decart, a company that has raised more than $450 million in several rounds of funding from established Silicon Valley venture capital firms like Sequoia and Benchmark. Decart also makes an AI video generator called MirageLSD, and a realtime video AI model called Lucy 2 similar to Delulu. One of the main differences between Lucy 2 and Delulu is that Delulu caters to streamers. 

Delulu’s terms of use don’t say anything about people using the platform to take on the likeness of other real people, but does say its policy is “to respect the legitimate rights of copyright and other intellectual property owners, and we will respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement.”

Kick and Decart did not respond to requests for comment about whether Pepper’s behavior was allowed on their platform. 

Decart presented realtime AI video tech, but not Delulu, at TwitchCon last year. Twitch did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  

Incorporating nearly two tons of porcelain fragments, a monumental pair of vessels spills out into a pool of lustrous green. Shards of broken cups and saucers, pots, and other voluptuous forms blanket the gallery of the Green-House at Green-Wood for a new installation by Jean Shin.

Celadon Landscape is one of the latest projects in which the artist transforms a singular material into a sprawling sculpture. Found objects that bear traces of their former purposes and users are prized possessions in Shin’s New York studio, as these often-discarded items are nested into dynamic works that consider the relationship between consumption, environmental care, and community.

Green-Wood presents the second iteration of Celadon Landscape, which originated during the artist’s visits with ceramicists and makers in South Korea. Celadon production has a lengthy history in the region and dates back to at least the 10th century. As Shin encountered the heaps of imperfect pieces these artisans had cast aside, she found the pale green-blue material an apt metaphor for belonging, repair, and the diaspora.

“Celadon vases occupy a prized place in Korean cultural history—objects of reverence, painstakingly made and carefully preserved,” the artist says. “In Celadon Landscape, I shift the gaze to what is usually discarded: thousands of broken ceramic shards. I see in their imperfection not loss, but beauty—fragments that still pulse with the memory of Korea’s enduring legacy.”

With materials donated by studios in and near the city of Icheon, Shin conceived of two bulbous vessels cloaked in patterned, painted, stamped, and textured bits of pottery. Resting on their sides, the mosaic forms appear to emerge from the earth below, as if they’ve been uncovered in an archaeological dig. None of the vessels—the original pieces or the large-scale reconstructions—is presented whole and unblemished, suggesting a fragmentation that doesn’t disappear but rather is made anew.

Fabricated by Miotto Mosaics Art Studios, Inc., Celadon Landscape is on view through January 17 in New York, where Shin is based. Keep up with her projects on Instagram.

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• Club admit breaches involving three opponents

• Boro reinstated to take on Hull in playoff final

Southampton have been expelled from the Championship playoff final and docked four points for next season for spying on Middlesbrough and two other opponents.

An independent disciplinary ­commission handed down the punishment after the English Football League charged Southampton with a breach of its regulations. The EFL said Southampton had “admitted to multiple breaches of EFL regulations related to the unauthorised filming of other clubs’ training” and that the admitted breaches “concern fixtures against Oxford United in December 2025, Ipswich Town in April 2026 and Middlesbrough in May 2026”.

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Auto-enrolment has made retirement more secure for many. But some groups, including women, need more support

Recommendations from the government-backed Pensions Commission are not due until next year. But its interim warning that at least 15 million Britons are not saving enough for retirement already signals the scale of the challenge. The trend towards increasing longevity means that the issue of retirement incomes is unavoidable. At some point during the next decade, a threshold is expected to be reached whereby there are three pensioners for every 10 working-age adults.

The decision to reconvene this expert group was a good one. The automatic enrolment system it proposed has been a success, with around 90% of eligible employees signing up since 2012, along with their employers. But millions of low-paid workers, as well as the vast majority of self-employed people, face an uncertain future unless they too are helped to plan and save. One suggestion, made by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) as part of its own pensions review, was that HM Revenue and Customs could oversee a system whereby self-employed taxpayers would be enabled to make pension contributions at the same time as paying their tax bill.

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⚽️ 8.15pm BST kick-off; Spurs win sends West Ham down
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A huge game, this, for at least three clubs, and probably biggest of all for the one that isn’t playing. If Tottenham win tonight, West Ham will be relegated. If Tottenham draw tonight, West Ham will also be relegated – but not until Sunday (because it wouldn’t be mathematically certain this evening, there still being a chance that Spurs will lose their last game by six goals while West Ham win theirs by seven and stay up on goals scored). If Tottenham lose the whole business will roll through to the weekend, and if they lose by lots things really get interesting down towards the bottom of the table.

Chelsea though are significantly incentivised. Having missed the chance of securing a place in Europe by winning the FA Cup, they go into the game in 10th place, currently outside the qualifying places. But if they win tonight they’d move into eighth place, above Brentford on goal difference, and be back on track for at least a place in the Conference League. They could then make sure of a place in the Europa League by winning at Sunderland on the final day, so long as Brighton don’t simultaneously beat Manchester United, or if Bournemouth – who host Manchester City in tonight’s earlier kick-off – don’t get any more points, while assuming Brentford fail to beat Liverpool so convincingly they go back above them on goal difference. This is, to be sure, all a bit complicated but the simple version is this: Chelsea really need to win this game, and so do Spurs.

De Zerbi has spoken to his squad about the Stamford Bridge hoodoo but mainly to tell them it is not something to worry about. He has been all about the power of positive thought since he came to the club five matches ago and he leaned into it when he addressed those who would revel in Spurs’s demise.

“I am Italian and in Italy it’s the same,” De Zerbi said. “For the biggest teams, it’s the same. We have to accept the pressure. We have to enjoy this pressure. We have to find new motivation from this pressure. It’s a good thing for us. If everyone wants Tottenham relegated, it’s a big motivation for me and I hope for my players as well.”

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Tens of millions of women and men worldwide are isolated and enjoy fewer protections than other labourers. Landmark legislation is a sign of hope

Domestic workers are used to hard graft for minimal reward. But in Indonesia, more than two decades of activism has finally paid off. Last month, the country’s parliament passed legislation classifying them as workers, ensuring that they are entitled to health insurance, days off and pensions. It also outlaws hiring under-18s for such jobs. For more than four million people, this is a significant step forward.

The challenges go far beyond Indonesia. There are around 75 million people in the sector worldwide, experiencing “lower wages, fewer benefits and fewer legal or social protections than other workers”, says the International Domestic Workers Federation. Three-quarters of them are women. Because they work in people’s homes they are isolated, and many get little or no time off. That makes them particularly vulnerable to abuse by employers and particularly hard to organise. Accommodation is often grim and food inadequate.

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Force says two women have come forward alleging they were victims of attacks detailed in Epstein files

Surrey police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse after two women came forward to say they were the victims of attacks in Britain detailed in the Epstein files.

The force said the claims dated back to the 1980s and 1990s, with one in Surrey and allegations concerning Berkshire understood to relate to the Windsor estate.

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John McGinn will lead out team in final against Freiburg seven years after helping them win promotion with club chasing a first major European trophy since 1982

As Aston Villa arrived at Besiktas Park on the banks of the Bosphorus, for one last training session before the real thing, it was impossible not to consider the journey to the Europa League final. John McGinn, who will lead Villa out as captain in Istanbul, was in the side promoted from the Championship via the playoff final seven years ago. Tyrone Mings also started that day at Wembley and across the course of the following 12 months Villa built a spine that on Wednesday will be central to their hopes of winning their first major European trophy since 1982.

It is why McGinn’s mind goes back to a 3-0 league defeat at Wigan and a midweek trip to Rotherham in the season they clinched promotion, averting a likely financial disaster. Tammy Abraham, then on loan from Chelsea, also began the playoff final victory over Derby. “If we lose that match, are Aston Villa here at the minute?” McGinn says. “Probably not. For us, tomorrow night, it will be nice to see the supporters who were there at Rotherham away, Wigan away, nights like that on a Tuesday evening when it’s very easy to stay at home. They deserve it just as much as the players do and hopefully we can give them something to remember.”

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Off-duty officers allegedly assaulted a sex worker in a taxi in Ciutat Vella, according to police in Catalonia

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Three off-duty Toronto police officers have been charged with sexual assault while vacationing in Barcelona, in an incident likely to pile pressure on a force already under intense public scrutiny.

According to police in Barcelona, the alleged assault occurred on the evening of 13 May, when the trio of police officers were travelling in a taxi with a sex worker in the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood of Barcelona.

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• Petr Vlachovsky was first convicted in May 2025

• Five-year domestic coaching ban was seen as too lenient

Uefa has handed a lifetime ban from all football-related activity to Petr Vlachovsky, the Czech coach who used a hidden camera to secretly film his female players in their changing rooms.

Vlachovsky was convicted in May 2025, having been found to have filmed 14 players at FC Slovacko over a four-year period. He was convicted without a public hearing and handed a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban, which prompted calls from the Czech players’ union for his punishment to be broadened.

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Honderdduizenden chronisch zieken dreigen hard geraakt te worden door een stapeling van bezuinigingsplannen van het kabinet-Jetten, op zorg én sociale zekerheid. Simone Stroet is een van hen. „Als je ziet hoe weinig ik overhoud, 31 euro per maand, hoeveel extra kun je dan nog van me vragen?”

Gaan er vijfduizend Amerikaanse militairen weg uit Europa? Of negenduizend? En met welke reden? Een verklaring vanuit de VS bleef uit. De Amerikaanse commandant van de NAVO zei dat de verdediging van Europa niet in het geding komt.

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El sol de Mar del Plata haciendo magia sobre el agua. Miles de destellos en cada ola, como si el mar se llenara de estrellas por un rato. De esas fotos que te obligan a frenar y mirar ✨

No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan forgiveness. No UBI for average Americans. But reparations, treason forgiveness, and UBI for the Jan 6th insurrectionists & criminals who attacked Congress. Got it, got it, got it.

You know about shadow IT. Get ready for the shadow AI surge. Employees using unauthorized personal accounts to access GenAI tools are emerging as a growing insider-risk concern for organizations, new research shows. That means workers who have access to sensitive material could be plugging it into their AI platform of choice more frequently, leaving their organization none the wiser. Of the 45 percent of all professionals using AI in the workplace regularly, 67 percent of those were accessing the platforms using personal accounts that were not authorized by their IT teams, data from Verizon’s annual data breach investigations report (DBIR) [PDF] showed. Verizon said that the proportion of users accessing AI through personal accounts now represents a fourfold increase in non-malicious insider actions detected across this year’s dataset of more than 22,000 breaches globally. We’re not just talking about the Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok, but also various vibe coding platforms, AI agents, and other external chatbots that could have access to an organization’s data in some form. Verizon reported that 28 percent of data loss prevention policy violations involved employees entering source code into an AI tool, potentially exposing an organization’s intellectual property. In descending order of prevalence, staff were tossing images, structured data, documents, and PDFs into GenAI platforms as well. In 3.2 percent of cases, workers were uploading proprietary research and technical documentation. This should concern even the most bullish AI adopters, given the volume of potentially sensitive corporate data employees are feeding into unauthorized third-party AI services each day. Verizon said admins should be doing everything they can to prevent users from blindly trusting technology that is putting an increasing number of systems between this potentially sensitive data and the model itself, including by securing all enterprise asset configurations, and ensuring accounts and their permissions are tightly managed. The prevalence of shadow AI has given rise to new thinking around the matter, including by evolving the idea of software bill of materials (SBOMs) to AI-BOMs. You may have come across these already. Cisco open-sourced its AI-BOM earlier this year, for example, and more recently introduced a tool to track AI model provenance. Ian Swanson, VP of AI security products at Palo Alto Networks, told us the other week that AI-BOMs can also play an impactful role in helping incident responders deduce how cyberattacks play out in cases where the attackers use an organization’s own AI against it. AI-BOMs give defenders an idea of what any given AI system’s configurations were at a given time, allowing them to more easily see what changed and when. "If you had understanding of state and understanding of state changes, then you would be able to go back to an AI bill of materials and say: 'What system prompt was used within the ingredients to create the AI application?' And then see it's changed from a prior state to a new state. So we should probably check this and see if there's anything bad that's happening here," Swanson said. "And in that case, you'd be able to catch it." Bugs, bugs, bugs Away from the growing issue of shadow AI, Verizon said the exploitation of software vulnerabilities is once again the leading cause of security breaches, overtaking credential abuse, which is down 13 percent on last year’s results. Organizations’ patching habits aren’t doing much to help the cause here. The percentage of critical vulnerabilities from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog that were fully remediated was down from 38 to 26 percent in 2025, for example. Verizon also said that the median time to full vulnerability resolution rose by nearly two weeks, from 32 days in 2024 to 43 days last year. That said, defenders have had their work cut out for them, with the number of critical vulnerabilities needing remediation increasing by 50 percent on average. Elsewhere, ransomware featured in nearly half of all breaches covered in the report. Forty-eight percent of them, to be exact, up slightly from 44 percent in the previous year’s dataset. Some bright news to end on, however: Verizon continues to see a downward trend in ransom payments being made – 69 percent of victims refused to pay, while the median ransom payment fell from $150,000 to $139,875. ®

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌦️ - 19-05-2026 19:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 13.8°C · Lichte motregen 🌦️ | Min 9.5°C / Max 16.2°C | Kans op neerslag 37%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 9.5°C, Max 16.2°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1012.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 183°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 13.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 76%, 🧭 1012.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 190°
• 21:00: 13.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 66%, 🧭 1012.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 196°
• 22:00: 13.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 55%, 🧭 1013.1 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 196°
• 23:00: 13.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1013.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 193°
• 00:00: 13.4°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 35%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 201°
• 01:00: 13.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 26%, 🧭 1013.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°
• 02:00: 13.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1013.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 203°
• 03:00: 13.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1013.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 206°
• 04:00: 13.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1013.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 210°
• 05:00: 13.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1013.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• 06:00: 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 221°
• 07:00: 12.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1014.7 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 215°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 20 mei: Min 12.9°C, Max 17.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1017.4 hPa ↗️ +4.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• donderdag 21 mei: Min 12.5°C, Max 22.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.5 hPa ↗️ +9.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 238°
• vrijdag 22 mei: Min 12.8°C, Max 23.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.8 hPa ↗️ +1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 137°
• zaterdag 23 mei: Min 14.9°C, Max 24.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1028.6 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.1 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 313°
• zondag 24 mei: Min 15.1°C, Max 25.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1031.4 hPa ↗️ +2.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 6.7 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 57°
• maandag 25 mei: Min 13.8°C, Max 21.0°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1032.8 hPa ↗️ +1.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 61°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 13.8°C (Lichte motregen)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 11.0°C (-2.8°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 187°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 38.5 km/h (10.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 89%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1012.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 9.3 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.5
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:42 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:34

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 44 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 6.9 μg/m³

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The president intends to make a renewed push to convince Chinese leader Xi Jinping to finalize the stalled Power of Siberia 2 pipeline project.

SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/RTR) - Andrej Karpathy, een van de oprichters van OpenAI die later bij Tesla werkte, is aan de slag gegaan bij AI-bedrijf Anthropic. Dat heeft hij dinsdag bekendgemaakt. Karpathy is een invloedrijk figuur in de AI-gemeenschap en speelde een belangrijke rol in de ontwikkeling van Tesla's technologie voor zelfrijdende auto's.

"Ik denk dat de komende jaren aan het front van LLM's bijzonder bepalend zullen zijn. Ik ben enthousiast om bij het team hier aan te sluiten", schrijft Karpathy op X. LLM's zijn taalmodellen die zijn getraind op grote hoeveelheden tekst.

Anthropic werd in 2021 opgericht door oud-medewerkers van OpenAI. Het bedrijf laat zich voorstaan op verantwoordelijk en ethisch gebruik van AI. Anthropic is het bedrijf achter de chatbot Claude, die te boek staat als concurrent van ChatGPT.

In 2024 vertrok een andere medeoprichter van OpenAI, John Schulman, al naar Anthropic. Ook andere hooggeplaatste bestuurders stapten eerder op bij de maker van ChatGPT.