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Sony’s Oasis-Loving CEO Thinks We’re Going To Crave Human-Made Art In The Age Of AI
The use of AI in creative fields has been a thorny issue, and analysts predict that the growing presence of AI-generated content will drive people to seek more authentic, human-made content. Sony CEO and Oasis superfan Hiroki Totoki is one such person, as he believes that while AI can help “enhance” creativity, the human factor…
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Antisemitism fight explodes in Florida as voters head to the polls: ‘Political pogrom’
Randy Fine calls Dan Bilzerian's GOP primary challenge an “organized pogrom against the Jews” after an AI video depicted Nazi tropes.
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The physical media selection at Sony’s Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup gutted
Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service owned by Sony, has significantly scaled back its physical media store, removing all books from sale and drastically cutting its Blu-ray selection. The move has alarmed anime fans and collectors, who had already been wary that Sony’s ownership might deprioritise physical releases in favour of streaming, and the update appears…
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RimWorld Hits A New Low Price, But You’ll Only Have 24 Hours To Grab It
If any game could be called the most interesting, chaotic, and engaging PC title of all time, RimWorld would definitely be in the running. What may look like a blend of classic base management and colony sim mechanics is simply hiding the absolutely wild things that the game can offer, with intelligent AI storytelling (not…
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TMNT: Splintered Fate Ver. 2.0 Update Caps Off The Main Story With A New Final Boss
Super Evil Megacorp has released ‘The King’s Gambit’, a free Version 2.0 update for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, which concludes the game’s main story with a new final chapter and a boss fight against The Rat King. The update marks a significant milestone for the game, which has received sustained post-launch support with…
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Vine reboot Divine is now open to everyone, no invite code required
Divine, a Vine-style video app led by early Twitter employee Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath, has dropped its invite-only requirement and opened registration to everyone. The move, roughly three months after launch, aims to attract a wider wave of users to the app’s revival of six-second looping videos, a format that defined much of internet culture before…
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Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse
Apple has released a batch of security updates for iPhones, iPads, Macs and Vision Pro headsets, including a fix for a flaw that experts say resembles vulnerabilities previously exploited by commercial spyware. The most significant patch addresses CVE-2026-65346, an integer-overflow bug in Apple’s ImageIO framework, which handles image file parsing and could allow attackers to…
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Green members chat about ‘killing Zionists’ in leaked WhatsApp messages
The Green Party has been hit by a fresh anti-Semitism row after leaked WhatsApp messages showed members discussing the “killing of Zionists” and describing violence against Jewish people as “understandable”. The messages, shared in a private group called Greens Against Imperialism, also included a claim that British Jews were a “weapon” of Israel and a…
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Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Meta ran adverts on Facebook and Instagram promoting an AI “nudify” app called Kromix, which used the likeness of a prominent female US politician to advertise its ability to generate nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes, despite the company’s own policies banning sexual content in adverts. The episode highlights Meta’s repeated failure to stop advertisers exploiting its platforms…
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Former UK Tech Minister Damian Collins Joins Microdrama Outfit Screenburn Group As Chairman
Damian Collins, the former UK MP and government minister for tech and the digital economy, has been appointed Chairman of Screenburn Group, a London-based company behind a screenwriting app and CherryBowl, a microdrama research and ranking service. The appointment brings a high-profile figure with deep policy experience in online safety and digital regulation into the…