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Platform says content promoting letter – published on the Guardian’s website two decades ago – ‘clearly violates our rules’ TikTok is “proactively and aggressively” taking down videos boosting a letter written by Osama bin Laden laying out his justification for the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the company said in a statement on Thursday. …

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Owner of X responds to antisemitic tweet calling it ‘the actual truth’ and criticizes Anti-Defamation League Elon Musk tweeted his fervent agreement with an antisemitic statement on Wednesday night. A tweet posted by @breakingbaht on Wednesday night read: “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim …

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Artificial intelligence will bring huge changes to the world of work – and dangers for society. Some think they can be solved by just handing everyone money. Is there a catch? The idea of a guaranteed income for all has been floating around for centuries, its popularity ebbing and flowing with the passing tide of …

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Google-owned video platform opens up Dream Track experiment to produce 30-second soundtracks YouTube has teamed up with music artists including John Legend and Sia to offer AI-generated versions of their singing voices as soundtracks for creator videos. The Google-owned video platform is using a music generation model created by the search company’s AI unit to …

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In this week’s newsletter: The Saturdays’ Mollie King explores the history of Britain’s dominant female groups in Where It’s At. Plus: five of the most underrated podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here SpringleafWidely available, episodes weeklyJames Acaster is the award-winning standup comic behind one of the UK’s biggest …

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As US Senate began looking at the firm’s failures to shield children, it called for laws requiring parental approval of app downloads Meta called on US lawmakers on Wednesday to regulate Google and Apple’s app stores to better protect children, the same day that the Senate began investigating Meta’s failures to shield children using its …

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Tech companies are pushing the idea that the only way to make AI safe is to leave them in control. Trusting them could lead to disaster This month, the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, convened government representatives, AI companies and experts at Bletchley Park – the historic home of Allied code-breaking during the second world …

Rishi Sunak’s AI plan has no teeth – and once again, big tech is ready to exploit that | Georg Riekeles and Max von Thun Read More »

Policy was reportedly introduced quietly in 2022 after the US midterm primary elections, according to the WSJ Meta is now allowing Facebook and Instagram to run political advertising saying the 2020 election was rigged. The policy was reportedly introduced quietly in 2022 after the US midterm primary elections, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing …

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In this week’s newsletter: It has been a decade since Rockstar’s last instalment of its close-to-the-bone satire of the US underworld. But will it have the same resonance in a post-truth world? • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Last week, Rockstar revealed in a blogpost that the first trailer …

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Hare’s new opus Sociable Soccer 24 aims to bring the joys of arcade-style football games to a new generation of players and consoles For a sports video game to have any sort of life even a couple of years after release is rare nowadays. But when I meet Jon Hare, the genial, garrulous co-founder of …

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