Apple is bringing age verification to Texas this week
…Google is required to make similar changes to the Play Store and is also introducing age-checking tools for developers. Last December, a judge blocked the App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420…
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Google is trying to make deepfake detection more accessible for everyone
…The updates, announced at Google I/O today, cover not only SynthID — the invisible watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind — but also content embedded with C2PA content credentials, making both systems more…
In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNH43a1EI7s] The week before, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at a property development company, expressed shock after receiving a similarly icy reception from arts and humanities students…
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
…one piece of a longer creative process, which apparently includes programming his own AI tools and feeding them archival imagery, like newspaper clippings and family photos. Yet it’s still, in my…
Amazon’s new plan for games: James Bond and AI Snoop Dogg
…different types of games.” (Crystal Dynamics, which is developing the Tomb Raider reboot, has admitted that it used “AI-assisted tools” during development.) Scale is in no way a guarantee of success…
Claude can now plug directly into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton
…this announcement, Anthropic has also become a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund, which helps to support ongoing development of the open-source software, joining other big sponsors including Netflix, Epic…
Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games
…12-18 months later” — it will be a while before all the tools are in place for interested developers to even begin implementing ways to allow Fortnite skins in their games. This…
Vibe coding is coming to your phone
…As AI coding tools have become better and more accessible, more and more non-developers are finding success creating apps that fulfill a niche need. Vibe coders are mostly working with desktop…
Canonical lays out a plan for AI in Ubuntu Linux
…As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday detailing plans to add AI features to the Linux distro over the next…
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
Today, I’m talking with Melanie Perkins, founder and CEO of Canva, a popular online design tool. I always enjoy talking with Melanie. She was last on the show a couple of…