By Rachel Tashjian, CNN

(CNN) — In recent years, having the best vintage dress or a meme-worthy look seemed to be the ultimate red carpet flex in Hollywood.

But at Sunday night’s Golden Globes, actors wore gowns that spoke to the present – something strange and sober, in which ease and wearability are demanded but rarely given, and when unusual beauty can feel like a statement in aesthetically conservative times.

Vintage, or finding something forgotten or conjuring a well-remembered moment, has been the dominant trump card in Hollywood – a sign that you should be taken seriously as a fashion player in addition to an artist. That’s all been well and good (and has been great for reminding us that something doesn’t have to be new to look right), but it’s also left us mired in nostalgia, obsessing over recreating past moments.

When stars weren’t repeating the past, they were wearing ridiculous outfits. Crazy colors, outrageous silhouettes, pointless ruffles and swags – the fashion victim became a venerated main character rather than a cherished sideshow act. Viral clothes, engineered to spin the internet into days of discourse, tainted our collective sense of what was glamorous and pretty.

Everyone has looked just fine lately, but at a time when Hollywood seems to be losing its hold on our fantasies and influencer celebrity has overtaken movie stardom, we have less of a sense of what modern-day glamour looks like. When we dream – of wedding dresses, proms, celebrations and fame – we see very little that shows us the visual values of our times.

At the Golden Globes, which is an early indicator of the fashion themes that will play out over the awards season, actors and designers (with the help of their increasingly powerful stylists) are speaking to the present. Like Renate Reinsve, of “Sentimental Value,” wearing a Louis Vuitton gown of floor-length beaded fringes that moved. For years, red carpet dresses appeared to be stiff, oriented towards the still image — at last, a woman in motion! Another example was Tessa Thompson, who wore a warm chartreuse gown by Balenciaga, an elegant nod to her film, “Hedda,” but with its slinky fishtail sequins, sleek and almost comfortable looking. And when is the last time an awards show gown looked comfortable, even though ease is what every woman wants?

Political statements were not abundant this year, but Thompson was one of the stars seen wearing a “Be Good” badge pinned to her clutch, in reference to Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota mother who was shot and killed by ICE agents last week.

Ayo Edebiri, a star of the television show “The Bear” as well as several films last year, wore a black velvet Chanel gown, kissed with brooches at the shoulders, that first appeared in the brand’s much-dissected show in the New York City subway late last year. Black is an atypical sighting on the red carpet unless the gown is epic in proportion, which this was not. But the sleekness, the coy refusal to play the big and obvious dress game, propelled the look into a new definition of cool. (It’s very Coco Chanel, who wore the most understated clothes and claimed anyone who didn’t like it just wasn’t sophisticated enough to get it.) This is a dress to please Edebiri first and foremost – a declaration of snarling chic when it seems everyone has something to say about everyone else’s clothes.

Similarly in conversation with the past, instead of in its thrall, was Zoey Deutch, who played a winning Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague.” Her Prada plisse gown, with a drop waist cummerbund that fell into fringes of glass beads, was more the spirit of Art Deco – stately but uncompromising – then flapper costume fr

By Clare Duffy, CNN

New York (CNN) — When Elliston Berry, then 14 years old, discovered a classmate had made and shared a deepfake nude image of her, she didn’t know where to turn for information on what had happened or how to get the photos removed from social media. Now, she’s pushing to ensure no other young person has to feel the same way.

Berry helped to create an online training course to teach students, parents and school staff about non-consensual, explicit deepfake image abuse, in partnership with cybersecurity firm Adaptive Security and Pathos Consulting Group.

It’s an increasingly common form of harassment, amid the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools that make creating sexualized deepfakes simple and widely available. Just this week, Elon Musk’s xAI came under fire after its AI chatbot Grok was repeatedly used to create nude or sexualized AI images of women and minors. (xAI has since limited its image generation feature.)

One in eight US teens report personally knowing someone who has been targeted by nude deepfakes, according to research published last year by the non-profit Thorn. That’s despite the Take It Down Act — which President Donald Trump signed into law last year, and for which Berry advocated — making it a crime to share nonconsensual, explicit images, real or computer-generated.

“One of the situations that we ran into was a lack of awareness and a lack of education,” Berry, now 16, told CNN of the leadership at the Texas high school where she was harassed. “They were more confused than we were, so they weren’t able to offer any comfort, any protection to us. That’s why this curriculum is so important … it focuses on the educators so they’re able to help and protect if a victim were to come to them for a situation like this.”

The online course takes about 17 minutes to complete and is designed for middle- to high school-aged students, as well as teachers and parents. It includes lessons on understanding and recognizing AI-generated deepfakes, deepfake sexual abuse and sextortion.

Sextortion, a scheme where victims are deceived into sending online perpetrators explicit images and then blackmailed in exchange for money or additional graphic content, has affected thousands of teens in recent years and led to multiple suicide deaths.

The course also includes links to support resources from RAINN, as well as information about legal consequences under the Take It Down Act and on how to get images removed. Berry said it took nine months to get the images of her removed from social media. The Take It Down Act now requires platforms to remove such images within 48 hours of being notified of them.

“It’s not just for the potential victims, but it’s also for the potential perpetuators of these types of crimes,” said Adaptive Security CEO Brian Long. “They need to understand that this isn’t a prank, right? … It’s against the law and it’s really, really harmful and dangerous to people.”

Adaptive Security is making the course available for free to schools and parents of young people.

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By Matt Egan, CNN

New York (CNN) — Greenland’s untapped mineral wealth has helped land the island at the top of President Donald Trump’s empire-building wish list.

Trump officials view Greenland’s underground riches as a way to loosen China’s stranglehold over the rare-earth metals that are critical for everything from fighter jets and lasers to electric vehicles and MRI scanners.

“We need Greenland … It’s so strategic right now. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One earlier this month.

“We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. If we don’t do it the easy way, we’ll do it the hard way,” Trump said Friday at a press conference with oil executives.

Although Trump has recently downplayed Greenland’s natural resources, his former national security adviser Mike Waltz told Fox News in 2024 that the administration’s focus on Greenland was “about critical minerals” and “natural resources.”

But the reality is that Denmark’s ownership of Greenland is not what’s stopping the United States from tapping the island’s treasure trove. It’s the punishing Arctic environment.

Researchers say it would be extremely difficult and expensive to extract Greenland’s minerals because many of the island’s mineral deposits are located in remote areas above the Arctic Circle, where there is a mile-thick polar ice sheet and darkness reigns much of the year.

Not only that, but Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, lacks the infrastructure and manpower required to make this mining dream a reality.

“The idea of turning Greenland into America’s rare-earth factory is science fiction. It’s just completely bonkers,” said Malte Humpert, founder and senior fellow at The Arctic Institute. “You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it’s worse than the moon.”

Despite its name, approximately 80% of Greenland is covered with ice. And mineral extraction — or just about anything — in the Arctic can be five to 10 times more expensive than doing it elsewhere on the planet.

Greenland, unlike Venezuela, is open for business

Trump’s interest in Greenland is not new — nor is he the first US president to covet the island.

Yet Trump’s startling intervention in Venezuela and decision to take control of the South American nation’s vast oil riches have refocused attention on his interest in Greenland.

The chance that the United States takes control of any part of Greenland has surged to around 40% on prediction market Kalshi, up from about 20% in mid-2025.

Of course, there are major differences between the situations in Venezuela and Greenland.

Not only is Greenland a territory of NATO ally Denmark, but unlike Venezuela it is very much open to business that can operate there, and it has a long history of political stability.

For years, if not decades, officials in Greenland have courted foreign direct investment. People in Greenland say they already are open to business opportunities without any belligerence.

“I don’t see a need for taking over Greenland. We’re open to investment and working with Americans,” Christian Keldsen, m

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst

(CNN) — When the Supreme Court, led by Justice Neil Gorsuch, ruled in 2020 that federal law protected transgender workers from discrimination, the justices appeared to launch a new era of rights for a historically shunned group.

LGBTQ advocates believed the core principle of Bostock v. Clayton County – that bias against transgender people amounts to unlawful sex discrimination – would extend beyond the workplace.

Lower court judges, in fact, soon began relying on the Bostock decision to protect transgender individuals in educational settings, such as to ensure access to bathrooms of choice and desired sports teams. In 2021, the Biden administration cited Bostock as it imposed rules protecting trans individuals from discrimination in health care.

But the Bostock foundation was shaky at the Supreme Court, as the majority grew more conservative. At the same time, Republican-controlled states increasingly adopted legislation diminishing transgender rights, in education and public facilities, healthcare and athletics.

“It had great potential as a legal matter and, more broadly, as a political matter,” said Georgetown law professor David Cole, “in recognizing that when we discriminate against people because they are transgender we are, in fact, engaging in sex discrimination and enforcing sex-based stereotypes.”

Cole, a former national legal director of the ACLU who argued on behalf of a transgender woman in the 2020 case, said Bostock’s repercussions have cut in two directions.

Bostock has provided coverage for trans individuals on the job. Yet, Cole, referring to the politicking and legislative efforts against trans rights, said, “The backlash has been brutal.”

Last June, the Supreme Court turned away from Bostock when it upheld state bans on hormone treatment and other medical care for trans youths. The 6-3 majority rejected arguments that they were a form of sex discrimination and declared the bans instead tied to age and medical use. Dissenting justices contended the new ruling, in United States v. Skrmetti, simply could not be squared with Bostock.

“As was true in Bostock, then,” they wrote, “the law deprives minors of medical treatment based, in part, on sex.”

Now, in one of the most anticipated disputes of the justices’ current session, the court will hear a pair of cases on Tuesday over whether states can keep trans women from participating on female sports teams without violating federal anti-bias statues or the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the law.

“Bostock crystallized an understanding for the populus, both on rights and responsibilities under the law,” said law professor Kara Ingelhart, director of the LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic at Northwestern. “Then Skrmetti created confusion and a lot of mistrust.”

Skrmetti changed the rules

The Skrmetti case revealed a shifting approach and mindset at the court.

The opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who had been a vote for transgender rights in the 2020 case.

Joining the majority was also Gorsuch, Bostock’s author. He had not asked a single question during the oral arguments, which was highly unusual, and then he wrote no separate opinion to explain how he was reconciling the two decisions.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who had joined the bench in late 2020 after Bostock, wrote separately in the 2025 case. Her approach would have directly undercut the potential reach of B

Por Lex Harvey

Grok de Elon Musk ha sido bloqueado por Indonesia y Malasia, los primeros países en hacerlo después de que la función de “desnudez digital” de la herramienta de IA inundara internet con fotos de mujeres y menores en imágenes manipuladas, sugerentes y obscenas

La presión internacional sobre Musk ha ido aumentando para controlar a Grok a raíz de una tendencia viral en la que los usuarios han pedido a la herramienta de inteligencia artificial que genere deepfakes sexualmente explícitos.

Grok es una herramienta de la plataforma de redes sociales X de Musk, anteriormente conocida como Twitter.

El ministro digital de Indonesia, Meutya Hafid, dijo en un comunicado el sábado que la prohibición era para “proteger a las mujeres, los niños y el público en general de los riesgos del contenido pornográfico falso generado utilizando tecnología de inteligencia artificial”.

Malasia anunció su propia prohibición temporal el domingo tras “el uso indebido repetido de Grok para generar imágenes manipuladas obscenas, sexualmente explícitas, indecentes, groseramente ofensivas y no consensuadas, incluido contenido que involucra a mujeres y menores”.

Indonesia y Malasia son países de mayoría musulmana con leyes estrictas contra la pornografía.

CNN se ha puesto en contacto con la empresa matriz xAI para solicitarle comentarios.

Funcionarios del Reino Unido, la Unión Europea y la India también han expresado su preocupación por las barreras de protección de Grok.

Anteriormente, Musk y xAI afirmaron que estaban abordando el problema suspendiendo permanentemente las cuentas infractoras y “trabajando con los gobiernos locales y las fuerzas del orden”. Sin embargo, las respuestas de Grok a las solicitudes de los usuarios seguían repletas de imágenes que sexualizaban a las mujeres.

Muchos usuarios consideran que Grok es un caso atípico en comparación con otros modelos de IA convencionales, ya que permite (y en algunos casos promueve) contenido sexualmente explícito y avatares acompañantes.

El auge de la tendencia de desvestirse digitalmente comenzó a finales del año pasado, cuando muchos usuarios descubrieron que podían etiquetar a Grok en X y hacer que manipulara imágenes.

Los usuarios han impulsado al chatbot a generar imágenes de personas en bikini y posando de forma sugerente, causando angustia a cientos de miles de mujeres en todo el mundo.

Investigadores de AI Forensics, una organización europea sin fines de lucro que investiga algoritmos, analizaron más de 20.000 imágenes aleatorias generadas por Grok y 50.000 solicitudes de usuarios entre el 25 de diciembre y el 1 de enero.

Los investigadores encontraron “una alta prevalencia de términos que incluían ‘ella’, ‘poner’/’quitar’, ‘bikini’ y ‘ropa’”.

Más de la mitad de las imágenes generadas de personas “contenían individuos con vestimenta mínima, como ropa interior o bikinis”.

En público, Musk se ha pronunciado durante mucho tiempo contra los modelos de IA “despiertos” y lo que él llama censura.

Pero el multimillonario ha rechazado las restricciones para Grok dentro de la empresa, dijo a CNN una fuente con conocimiento de la situación en xAI.

El equipo de seguridad de xAI, ya pequeño en comparación con sus competidores, perdió varios empleados en las semanas previas a la controversia.

Musk ha declarado que cualquiera que use Grok para crear contenido ilegal enfrentará consecuencias. Sin embargo, ha desestimado en gran medida las preocupaciones sobre el contenido sexual en la aplicación, argumentando que los gobierno