From Radar Trends to Watch: January 2026 – O’Reilly :

• Trains were canceled after an AI-edited image of a bridge collapse was posted on social media. - Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image - BBC News

• Virtual kidnapping is a thing. Nobody is kidnapped, but doctored images from social media are used to “prove” that a person is in captivity. - FBI warns of virtual kidnapping scams using altered social media photos

• There’s an easy way to jailbreak LLMs. Write poetry. Writing a prompt as poetry seems to evade the defenses of most language models. - Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models