Leben (Life aka misc)
Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches
A new Internet Matters survey suggests the UK’s Online Safety Act age checks are easy for many children to bypass. Reported workarounds include fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, video game characters, and even drawing on a fake mustache. The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it Read more…
Creativity Leben (Life aka misc)
Oscars Bans AI Actors and Writing From Awards
The Academy has clarified that only human-performed acting and human-authored writing are eligible for Oscar nominations. The Oscars will not ban AI tools broadly, but says it will judge films based on the degree to which humans remain central to the creative work. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Read more…
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Coinbase Lays Off Nearly 700 Workers In ‘AI-Native’ Restructuring
Coinbase is laying off about 700 workers, or 14% of its workforce, as CEO Brian Armstrong says the company is restructuring to become “lean, fast, and AI-native.” Armstrong claimed he’d seen engineers “use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks” and that non-technical teams in Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill To Fund ‘AI Literacy’ In Schools in USA
A new, bipartisan bill introduced (PDF) by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world — including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft — would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in “AI literacy,” something that young people and teachers alike already hate in Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion cash-and-stock offer to buy eBay (paywalled; alternative source), with CEO Ryan Cohen arguing he can turn the marketplace into a far larger Amazon competitor. “EBay should be worth — and will be worth — a lot more money,” Cohen said in an interview. Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
The Audio Industry Is Grappling With the Rise of ‘Podslop’
Welcome to the modern era of podcasting in which thousands of new shows are released into the world every day with a sizable portion likely being AI-generated. Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult just as the industry is starting to take this Read more…