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When searching for Swift, a message now appears: “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” The social media platform said it was a “temporary action” to prioritise safety. Elon Musk-run X has finally blocked searches for Taylor Swift after her AI-generated explicit images went viral on its platform last week. The popular singer’s images were seen by millions before X removed those. The company was criticised for a slow action on those images.When searching for Swift, a message now appears: “Something went…

Elon Musk-owned X has a new way to tackle deepfakes, which has been triggered by a slew of new AI generated videos and photos featuring Taylor Swift. The platform bow blocks all search results on Swift, in a bid to suppress the AI-generated NSFW content…

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Meta is clamping down further on who sends messages to teen users on Facebook and Instagram.The social media company, on Thursday, announced new tools and features to limit teens’ abilities to see content on the two platforms that could be sensitive. Foremost among those is a new restriction on who can send them direct messages.Effective immediately, users under the age of 16 (or 18 in certain unnamed countries) will no longer be able to receive messages from people they’re not friends with on either platform—even if the…

US President Joe Biden has vetoes a Republican resolution to block his administration's plan to allocate $7.5 billion for the construction of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the US President Biden has…

The PlayStation 5’s latest update blocks players from using the Cronus Zen — a device cheaters use to get an unfair advantage in first-person shooters and other games — as spotted by Call of Duty news site CharlieIntel. A notice on the Cronus website warns players that the 24.01-08.60.00 update for the PS5 no longer allows the Cronus Zen to connect to the console.Although Cronus bills the device as a “controller emulator,” cheaters have been using it to perform all sorts of digital tweaks to their controllers, like…

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Is being able to build and train machine learning models from popular libraries sufficient for machine learning users? Probably not for too long. With tools like AutoAI on the rise, it is likely that a lot of the very traditional machine learning skills like building model architectures with common libraries like Pytorch will be less important.What is likely to persist is the demand for skilled users with a deep understanding of the underlying principles of ML, particularly in problems that require novel challenges,…

Spirit and JetBlue planes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines on Friday appealed a federal judge's ruling issued earlier this week that blocks the two carriers' planned merger on antitrust grounds.JetBlue had planned to buy Spirit for $3.8 billion in a deal struck in the summer of 2022. A federal judge on Tuesday, however, barred that combination, saying it…

JetBlue Airways planes are seen near Spirit Airlines planes at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 16, 2022.Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesShares of Spirit Airlines fell about 23% Wednesday, its second day of double-digit losses, after a judge blocked its proposed merger with JetBlue Airways.Spirit is down roughly 60% since the decision blocking its $3.8 billion acquisition by JetBlue was handed down Tuesday, citing reduced competition. The combination…