PARIS (AP) — As Paris shines under the global spotlight of the Olympic Games, technological innovations are enabling people with visual impairments to take it in.

NEW YORK (AP) — Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is trying to accomplish something that seems impossible in the South American country: steer people away from WhatsApp and X. Maduro’s announcement this week that he has ordered a 10-day block on access to X in Venezuela is the latest in a series of efforts by his government to try to suppress information sharing among the population voicing doubts about his claim to victory in the July 28 presidential election. It also reveals how every aspect of Venezuela’s government is subject to Maduro’s wants and needs, as he went from demanding retweets from his Cabinet in May to ordering the nation’s telecommunications agency on Thursday to block access to X.

PARIS (AP) — Dire financial straits are leading droves of Olympic athletes to sell images of their bodies to subscribers on OnlyFans — known for sexually explicit content — to sustain their dreams of gold at the Games. As they struggle to make ends meet, a spotlight is being cast on an Olymp…

The Paris prosecutor’s office says a ransomware attack has targeted the central data systems of the Grand Palais and other museums in the Réunion des Musées Nationaux network. Some of them are hosting Summer Olympics events including fencing, taekwondo and equestrian sports. The attack was detected on Sunday. It hit data systems used by around 40 museums across France. Paris authorities and the museum network said there has been no disruption to the Olympic events and no data extraction has been detected. Efforts are ongoing to secure and restore the affected systems.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has sued a group of advertisers, alleging that a “massive advertiser boycott” deprived the company of billions of dollars in revenue and violated antitrust laws. The company formerly known as Twitter filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a federal court in Texas against the World Federation of Advertisers and member companies Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted. It accused the advertising group’s initiative called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media of helping to coordinate a pause in advertising after Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and overhauled its staff and policies.

Groups linked to Russia’s government are using online disinformation to spread false information about the 2024 Olympics and portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool. In one example, a fake music video taunts Paris with AI-generated images of rats, litter and sewage. Russian disinformation also has sought to exploit unsubstantiated claims about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. A firm that analyzes online misinformation says Russia is one of the most advanced users of generative AI models for malign purposes. Experts who study foreign influence say any global event like the Olympics is likely to be targeted for disinformation as bad actors look to exploit public interest.

Five secretaries of state are urging tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on his social media platform X, saying in a letter that it has spread election misinformation. The state election officials said the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. The secretaries of state from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington wrote that X has a responsibility to provide users “access to guidance that reflects true and accurate information about their constitutional right to vote.” Social media platforms such as X have faced mounting scrutiny for their role in spreading misinformation, including about elections.

A Frontier Airlines flight that had been set to go from Houston to the Dallas area last week got canceled not because of weather, but because one of its pilots got arrested. Houston police say the pilot, Seymour Walker, was arrested by officers around 4 p.m. Thursday. The arrest happened before passengers began to board the plane at Bush Intercontinental Airport. The 45-year-old was wanted on an assault-family violence arrest warrant that had been issued by the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Department of Public Safety. Frontier Airlines says passengers were offered a full refund or booking on another flight.

PARIS (AP) — Canyon Barry is a part-time basketball player.

The French government says multiple telecommunications lines have been hit by acts of vandalism, affecting fiber lines and fixed and mobile phone lines as cities around France are hosting events for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Organizers for the Paris Games say their operations aren't affected. France’s second-largest telecommunications company said it had made repairs in several areas already or workarounds kept the scale of the impact low. Some other providers also got things back up and running later Monday. Paris prosecutors say a national investigation has been launched into the attacks on optic cables and “the damage to the telecommunications systems."

PARIS (AP) — Photos of blood-red hands on a Holocaust memorial. Caskets at the Eiffel Tower. A fake French military recruitment drive calling for soldiers in Ukraine, and major French news sites improbably registered in an obscure Pacific territory, population 15,000.

The Olympic world's ever-expanding quest to draw in young fans is meeting them where they are — on Roblox.