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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow: tech giants deliberately ‘enshittify’ services for profit

Digital rights activist Cory Doctorow claims Google executives pitched a strategy in…
Augmented reality.

Physicists shrink entire HD display to fit on area smaller than a pinhead

Scientists have built a pixel measuring just 300 nanometres across that could…
Newspapers

One in 10 US news articles contains AI-generated text, Pangram study reveals

Nearly one in 10 news articles published by American newspapers contains artificial…
SnapChat Imagine Lens

Snapchat makes AI image generator free as Meta and OpenAI advance video tools

Snapchat has made its Imagine Lens, the company’s first open prompt image-generation…
KPop Demon Hunters

Netflix declares AI will empower creators as studios split on technology

Netflix has declared it is “very well positioned to effectively leverage ongoing…
Arguments

Facebook algorithm changes linked to rise in polarisation and fake news

Pompeu Fabra University research has confirmed a rise in ideological polarisation and…
MrBeast

Algorithms that select social media influencers create inequality by design

Algorithms used to identify influential people in social networks, including those that…
Kimaya (Kimy) Lecamwasam

MIT researcher validates music as mental health treatment alongside therapy

MIT Media Lab PhD student Kimaya Lecamwasam is clinically validating music listening,…
Tilly Norwood and Bryan Cranston.

Cranston deepfake forces OpenAI to strengthen Sora 2 actor protections

Bryan Cranston’s voice and likeness were generated in Sora 2 outputs without…
Wikipedia

Wikipedia traffic down 8% as AI and social media reshape how people find information

Wikipedia experienced an eight per cent decline in human pageviews compared to…