📸 Google's Deepfake Role, Brainy Tools & Twitter Power Battles
Today’s pick
Google and Microsoft Are Supercharging AI Deepfake Porn. To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft When fans of Kaitlyn Siragusa, a popular 29-year-old internet personality known as Amouranth, want to watch her play video games, they will subscribe for $5 a month to her channel on Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch. By Cecilia D'Anastasio via Bloomberg
NEW: Maybe you think of deepfake pornography as something that happens on the internet's edges. Not so. It's facilitated by Google, Microsoft, the app stores, hosting services and payment processors—all on the open web. @cecianasta and I document how - Davey Alb (@daveyalba)
Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter. Today let's step outside the news cycle and turn our attention toward a topic I'm deeply invested in but only rarely write about: productivity platforms. For decades now, software tools have promised to make working life easier. But on one critical dimension — their ability to improve our thinking — they don’t seem to be making much progress at all. By Casey Newton via Platformer
“Much of journalism simply involves remembering relevant events from the past. An AI-powered link database has a perfect memory; all it’s missing is a usable chat interface. If it had one, it might be a perfect research assistant.” - The UN Brief (@MayaPlentz)
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Even Elon Musk can't fully wreck Twitter's one great superpower. Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate also had a meta contest: Who would win the fight between traditional TV — in this case, Fox News, which broadcast the debate — and Twitter, which counterprogrammed the debate with a conversation between Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, the former Fox star-turned-Twitter streamer? By Peter Kafka via Vox
Trump’s Tucker Carlson interview proved Twitter is still the place to talk politics - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
Microsoft investigating Windows 11 BSOD 'unsupported processor' update errors. Microsoft says it's investigating reports of a Blue Screen of Death with an “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” error message that's been cropping up on some Windows 11 PCs after installing an update released earlier this week. By Tom Warren via The Verge
MSI has confirmed the Windows 11 BSOD issues. Reverting from the latest MSI BIOS updates is a temporary workaround until MSI can fix the issues - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
WhatsApp now lets users send videos in HD resolution. Last week, WhatsApp released an update for its iOS and Android apps that enabled a new option to send high-resolution images with less compression. And as promised by Meta, a similar option for sending videos in HD resolution is now being rolled out to WhatsApp users. By Filipe Espósito via 9to5Mac
WhatsApp now lets users send videos in HD resolution - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
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