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Music labels are taking down AI voice clone songs from streaming services by citing copyright infringement, an approach experts say is not so straightforward (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: Music labels are taking down AI voice clone songs from streaming services by citing copyright infringement, an approach experts say is not so straightforward — Major record labels are going after AI-generated songs, arguing copyright infringement. Legal experts say the approach is far from straightforward.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years — International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring …

7 speed bumps on the road to AI

Everyone is amazed as the AI butterflies emerge from their cocoons. Large language models are poised, learned, and adept at communicating in a wide range of languages and styles. The art models can produce pretty much anything that we can dream of and explain in words—the wackier the better. Scientists are teaching AIs to compose

Machine Vision Automates Trainspotting with Unique Full-Length Portraits

As hobbies go, trainspotting is just as valid a choice as any — we don’t judge. But it does present certain logistical challenges, such as having to be in visual range of a train to be able to spot it. There’s also the fact that trains are very large objects, and they tend to move

Like it or not, Bing AI is now on your Galaxy phone

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Bing AI integration is now available on the pre-installed SwiftKey app on Galaxy devices. This effectively means that Bing AI features are now available on all Galaxy phones. The feature is available in v9.10.11.10 of the pre-installed SwiftKey app. Microsoft brought Bing AI capabilities to SwiftKey keyboard users a

Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)

Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists — A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube …

Fire TV Channels is a free TV service just for Fire TV owners

Credit: Amazon Fire TV/YouTube Amazon has announced Fire TV Channels for Fire TV devices. This is a free, ad-supported TV service that combines FreeVee with new content. Amazon is no stranger to the free, ad-supported TV (FAST) space, offering its FreeVee service for several years now. Nevertheless, the company has now announced a new foray

Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)

Squeeze Over a Minute Of Movie Filming Onto a 35mm Still Cartridge

There’s an allure to shooting film in the digital age which isn’t quite satisfied by digital filters for your smartphone camera. Aside from the technical challenge of working with a medium limited in sensitivity compared to its electronic replacement there are aesthetic reasons for wanting to shoot with particular lenses not found on any modern

Sotheby’s launches a curated, P2P secondary NFT marketplace, on-chain via the Ethereum and Polygon networks, and letting users pay in native tokens ETH or MATIC (Rosie Perper/CoinDesk)

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Sotheby’s launches a curated, P2P secondary NFT marketplace, on-chain via the Ethereum and Polygon networks, and letting users pay in native tokens ETH or MATIC — Sotheby’s Metaverse will now offer a curated, peer-to-peer marketplace via the Ethereum and Polygon networks.

A US federal judge declares a mistrial in Masimo’s lawsuit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secret claims, after jurors failed to reach a consensus (Joe Schneider/Bloomberg)

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: A US federal judge declares a mistrial in Masimo’s lawsuit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secret claims, after jurors failed to reach a consensus — Apple Inc. and Masimo Corp. failed to persuade a jury to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial where the medical-devices company claimed …

Redfall is playable on Steam Deck — with the right settings

The Redfall intro screen, with the Steam Deck’s performance hud above it. | Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge Nearly four hours in, I am not at all convinced that Redfall is a good game — unless there’s a lot of hidden depth, it feels like a rare miss from Arkane. But unlike that

Memo: Samsung bans employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company devices over concerns staff will leak sensitive data (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Memo: Samsung bans employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company devices over concerns staff will leak sensitive data — Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT after discovering staff uploaded sensitive code …

ESA’s Jupiter-bound Probe Hits Antenna Snag

While the few minutes it takes for a spacecraft’s booster rocket to claw its way out of Earth’s gravity well might be the most obviously hazardous period of the mission, an incredible number of things still need to go right before anyone on the ground can truly relax. Space is about as unforgiving an environment

Amazon rolls out Fire TV Channels, its FAST video experience for Fire TV devices, after monthly hours streamed of FAST content grew 300%+ in the past six months (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon rolls out Fire TV Channels, its FAST video experience for Fire TV devices, after monthly hours streamed of FAST content grew 300%+ in the past six months — Amazon is doubling down on free, ad-supported content with today’s introduction of Fire TV Channels, its new, free and ad-supported …

Pornhub has disabled its website in Utah amid a new age verification law for porn sites, replacing it with a video asking users to talk to their representatives (Samantha Cole/VICE)

Samantha Cole / VICE: Pornhub has disabled its website in Utah amid a new age verification law for porn sites, replacing it with a video asking users to talk to their representatives — People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to

OnePlus Pad review: a bright screen, excellent build quality, and snappy performance, but limited built-in apps, subpar keyboard and stylus, and a mid-tier CPU (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

Dan Seifert / The Verge: OnePlus Pad review: a bright screen, excellent build quality, and snappy performance, but limited built-in apps, subpar keyboard and stylus, and a mid-tier CPU — OnePlus’ first tablet brings high-end features and specs to a midrange price point. It reminds me of the OnePlus we used to know.

Recreating a Non-Standard USB Cable

USB is a well-defined standard for which there are a reasonable array of connectors for product designers to use in whatever their application is. Which of course means that so many manufacturers have resorted to using proprietary connectors, probably to ensure that replacements are suitably overpriced. [Teaching Tech] had this problem with a fancy in-car

The current push for age restrictions on certain online content in the US echoes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which was struck down by SCOTUS in 1997 (New York Times)

New York Times: The current push for age restrictions on certain online content in the US echoes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which was struck down by SCOTUS in 1997 — In the 1990s, the U.S. government limited what young people could see online, but lost a court fight challenging those rules.

Redfall is playable on Steam Deck — with the right settings

BeReal is making a feed of just famous people

Photo by Fabian Sommer / picture alliance via Getty Images BeReal is releasing another feature that seems to counter the purpose of the app: a feed dedicated to famous people. Instead of exchanging daily photos with your friends, now you’ll get to see what the top athletes, artists, and activists of the world are up

Mastodon announces a new onboarding experience that makes mastodon.social the default server choice, instead of requiring users pick from thousands of instances (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Mastodon announces a new onboarding experience that makes mastodon.social the default server choice, instead of requiring users pick from thousands of instances — Mastodon is making it easier for newcomers to create an account on the platform. On Monday, the decentralized network announced …

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5: Everything we know so far

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Update, May 1, 2023 (06:04 PM ET): We have updated the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 hub to include high-quality renders of the Flip 5.

Microsoft partners with PayPal, Stripe, and GoDaddy to launch a payments system inside Teams to let SMBs in the US and Canada collect payments during a meeting (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft partners with PayPal, Stripe, and GoDaddy to launch a payments system inside Teams to let SMBs in the US and Canada collect payments during a meeting — Microsoft is launching a payments system inside Microsoft Teams that lets small businesses earn money from appointments, classes …

It’s getting easier to make an account on Mastodon

Image: Mastodon Mastodon is making it easier for newcomers to create an account on the platform. On Monday, the decentralized network announced that it will start directing new users to create an account on mastodon.social instead of prompting them to choose from one of the thousands of other servers on the platform. This update doesn’t

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