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…
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…
An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country’s national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited academic articles that were ‘fictitious’. Earlier this month, minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced cabinet had approved the Read more…
More than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters suggests one in six parents have helped their child to get past age verification checks, with Read more…
RightsCon, one of the world’s largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia’s government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials cited unresolved speaker clearances and “thematic issues,” while Access Now said it had not yet received formal communication and was seeking an urgent Read more…
A new poll shows a slim majority of Swiss voters now support a June 14 referendum to cap the country’s population at 10 million by 2050. Under the proposal backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), “the permanent resident population must not exceed 10 million before 2050, and Switzerland Read more…