📹 YouTube's Speedy Playback, WhatsApp's New Login, Hamas' Digital Terrorism
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YouTube is launching new playback and creator-focused features. YouTube is rolling out a new set of features for better mobile-based playback, song search, and creator-friendly tools The company is making it easier for users to increase playback speed. With the new update, users can just tap and hold anywhere on the player to increase the speed to 2x, and once they reach the part they want they can let go. By Ivan Mehta via TechCrunch
YouTube is launching new playback and creator-focused features - Nathanael Durbin (@ndurbin)
WhatsApp now lets you log in with passkeys on Android. Log in with your face, fingerprint, or phone pin. Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images Constantly in fear that you'll forget your WhatsApp password? Worry no more, the app now lets you log in on Android with your face, fingerprint, or phone key instead. By Stan Schroeder via Mashable
WhatsApp now lets you log in with passkeys on Android - Juank (@JCSura)
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Hamas Hijacked Victims' Social Media Accounts to Spread Terror. Shortly after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, friends and relatives of Gali Shlezinger Idan, who lived in a kibbutz near the Gaza border, received frantic messages to check her Facebook page. What they found shocked them. Hamas members were using Ms. Idan’s Facebook account to livestream themselves holding her and her family hostage. By Sheera Frenkel via The New York Times
Hamas Hijacked Victims’ Social Media Accounts to Spread Terror - Yashar Ali (@yashar)
Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies. In 2016, Oskarina Fuentes got a tip from a friend that seemed too good to be true. Her life in Venezuela had become a struggle: Inflation had hit 800 percent under President Nicolás Maduro, and the 26-year-old Fuentes had no stable job and was balancing multiple side hustles to survive. By Niamh Rowe via WIRED
Millions of workers around the world Training AI Models for Pennies - Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus)
Nvidia enables AI processing on Windows PCs with RTX GPUs. In a milestone for personal computing, Nvidia is enabling better AI on PCs by enabling generative AI processing on Windows PCs using RTX-based graphics processing units (GPUs). In the past year, generative AI has emerged as a transformative trend. With its rapid growth and increasing accessibility, consumers now have simplified interfaces and user-friendly tools that harness the power of GPU-optimized AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC) software. By Dean Takahashi via VentureBeat
Nvidia enables AI processing on Windows PCs with RTX GPUs - Ramsey Elbasheer (@genericgranola)
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