Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary After a YouTube Shorts clip from Will Smith’s concerts drew criticism for appearing “AI‑generated,” blogger…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel amended its funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received about $5.7…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Several indie bands have removed their music from Spotify in response to news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months tens of thousands of users have reported Meta (Facebook and Instagram) suspending accounts mistakenly. A BBC investigation…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary YouTube educator and music-producer Rick Beato has been hit with a fresh wave of copyright claims and…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports targeted around a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The FBI…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil…
Summary Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix, described a single, frustrating experience writing a Rust programme. At 83 he said he found Rust’s memory-safety mechanisms hard to ‘grok’, the ecosystem (crates,…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The Register reports that AI-powered web crawlers are dramatically increasing bot traffic and in some cases overwhelming…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A major new clinical analysis finds that routine use of beta-blockers after a…
