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Spotify has announced a set of policy changes surrounding AI-generated music and spam on its streaming platform. The company is helping to develop an industry standard for AI disclosure in music credits, alongside DDEX. It will be strengthening its approach to AI-assisted spam, such as unauthorized vocal clones, as well as uploaded music that fraudulently delivers music to another artist's profile.
The new disclosures will encourage artists to share what aspect, if any, of their production was created with.
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ChatGPT already tries to answer all your questions. Now it's trying to answer questions before you ask them. OpenAI's new feature for its AI chatbot is ChatGPT Pulse, a summary of personalized updates. The blog post explaining Pulse positions it as a bulletin to start the day based on asynchronous research done by ChatGPT. Users can direct Pulse toward or away from particular topics, and the summaries will also draw... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is signaling that a government shutdown on Wednesday could lead to more firings. Democrats say its an intimidation tactic. Read more ›
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Tom Homan, the White House border czar, allegedly accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives during a sting operation last year, according to MSNBC. The payment was made after Homan implied that he could help the agents secure government contracts in a second Trump administration. In layperson’s terms, this is […] Read more ›
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Of all the Apple products I've tried, the M4 Mac Mini delivers the most for my money. And now you can enjoy a nice $100 discount on that price. Read more ›
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Amazon will pay a record civil penalty to settle a case with the Federal Trade Commission. The agency accused Amazon of tricking consumers into signing up for a Prime membership without their consent (and making it hard for customers to cancel) in a lawsuit filed in 2023. To settle the charges, Amazon has agreed to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and $1.5 billion to refund customers. The company also... Read more ›
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Microsoft has ended access to its data centers for a unit of the Israeli military that helped power a massive surveillance operation against Palestinian civilians, according to a report by The Guardian. The company says that the country's spy agency has violated its terms of service. This surveillance system collected millions of phone calls made by Palestinian civilians every day in Gaza and the West Bank. The massive trove of... Read more ›
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The European Union has summarily rejected calls from Apple to repeal and replace its Digital Markets Act (DMA), the law that governs much about how giant tech companies must operate within the 27-nation bloc. As first reported by France 24, EU digital affairs spokesperson Thomas Regnier responded to Apple's open letter regarding the DMA's effect on users in the EU. "Apple has simply contested every little bit of the DMA... Read more ›
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I still can't figure out how to think about Ghost of Yōtei. And, honestly, its predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima, even four years on. I enjoy these games - I enjoy these kinds of games, even. I'm a sucker, if you'll forgive the pun, for the Sucker Punch style of open world. A kind of Diet Assassin's Creed: even lighter; even shallower; even simpler to grasp and follow around, sword in... Read more ›
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Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin return to face the post-apocalypse in the sequel to the 2020 disaster film. Read more ›
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Apple's standard AirPods offer active noise cancellation for an additional $50, bringing them closer to the AirPods Pro than ever before. But after a substantial update to the AirPods Pro this fall, which should you choose? The AirPods Pro 3 move a little closer to the AirPods 4, adopting a slightly smaller charging case, hidden LED indicator, and capacitive pairing button, but the device also adds new high-end features such... Read more ›
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WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel has responded to President Donald Trump's comments about the late night host's return to air after ABC's suspension. Read more ›
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vivo recently confirmed that its upcoming Android 16-based OriginOS 6 will be available globally on vivo and iQOO smartphones. The new OriginOS will replace FuntouchOS, and now the company has revealed its global launch date. The Chinese brand has scheduled the OriginOS Global launch for October 15, where it’s expected to share details on the software’s international rollout and availability. Meanwhile, vivo will introduce OriginOS 6 in China on October... Read more ›
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A mom canceled her Disney+ subscription over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. She used "Hamilton" to explain it to her kids and hesitates to reactivate. Read more ›
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A Nielsen report reviewed by Business Insider showed that Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night reached a massive audience of 6.26 million viewers. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. It's not a one-time fee either: Companies will have to pay $100,000 a year for any employee it brings over to the US on the visa for up to six years. The Secretary of Homeland Security will restrict approval for visa applications unless accompanied by the fee, though the rule "allows case-by-case... Read more ›
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The Secret Service says it thwarted a telecommunications cyber-op in New York City. On Tuesday, the agency announced that it seized a network of SIM servers. It was capable of jamming cell towers, conducting DDoS attacks and enabling encrypted communications. The discovery came ahead of world leaders gathering for the UN General Assembly this week. The network, reportedly discovered in August, was extensive and sophisticated. It included over 300 SIM... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. But according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, it won't be an annual fee as the administration initially said it would be. During the signing at the Oval Office on Friday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said multiple times that the fee would be applied per year. In a follow-up X post... Read more ›
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's latest smart glasses at the company's Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices' features. Now, Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, said in an AMA on Instagram that they were demo failures and not actual product failures. The first glitch took place in the middle of a live demo with a cooking content creator, who... Read more ›
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The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster owner Live Nation on Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the company of knowingly allowing brokers to buy tickets in bulk. Ticketmaster allegedly then let them resell the tickets at a significant markup on its own second-hand market. The FTC claims Ticketmaster was aware that resellers routinely bypassed its security measures for these purchases. The company profits three times from resales. It collects fees at... Read more ›
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A few months after the release of Grok 4 and an extremely problematic antisemitic meltdown of its chatbot, xAI is already trying to move on with its latest AI model. Elon Musk's xAI announced the release of Grok 4 Fast, a faster, more efficient reasoning model compared to its recent predecessor. According to xAI, Grok 4 Fast offers similar performance to Grok 4 while using 40 percent fewer thinking tokens... Read more ›
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WhatsApp is now rolling out message translations on its iOS and Android apps. Starting today, Android users will be able to translate messages between six languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. On iPhone, there's support for translation between the following languages (i.e. all of the ones supported by Apple's Translate app): Arabic Dutch English French German Hindi Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Mandarin Chinese Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Spanish... Read more ›
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The inevitable has happened and Disney+ has once again announced that prices will be going up for its streaming service. Whether it's because of the ever-increasing costs or because of the company's recent teetering toward censorship or because you simply aren't using it, you may decide it's time to take a break. Here's everything you need to know about canceling your Disney+ subscription.How to cancel via web or mobileThe simplest... Read more ›
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The upcoming Football Manager 26 will include the officially licensed Barclays Women’s Super League and National Women’s Soccer League, among other women's competitions, marking the first time that women’s soccer has featured in the long-running management sim. This means you’ll be able to select a women’s team to manage, complete with accurate player imagery, club logos and kits. The debut of women’s soccer was actually announced way back in 2021,... Read more ›
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Amazon is pivoting its grocery operations in the UK, announcing that it will close 14 of its Amazon Fresh stores in the country. The remaining five Amazon Fresh locations in the UK will be converted to the Whole Foods Market brand. Rather than the brick and mortar shops, Amazon said it will focus on online grocery deliveries within the region. In 2026, the company said it expects to add perishables... Read more ›
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