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 The Misinformation Combat Alliance (MCA) and Meta have announced that a dedicated fact-checking helpline on WhatsApp - aimed at combating deepfakes and deceptive AI-generated content - will be available for the public in March 2024.The pledge to crack down on deepfakes comes at a time when the world's largest democracy is preparing for general elections. The Lok Sabha elections are due in April-May this year. "The Misinformation Combat Alliance (MCA) and Meta are working on launching a dedicated fact-checking helpline…

India's banking regulator doesn't intend to impose drastic measures on the country's fintech sector, a senior official said, weeks after it stunned investors by abruptly suspending much of the operations of Paytm Payments Bank, founded by high-flying billionaire Vijay Shekhar Sharma.There are “no harsher measures coming on fintech,” P. Vasudevan, an executive director in charge of enforcement at the Reserve Bank of India, said on Friday. The central bank would be happy to see self-regulation for the sector, but expected…

Police in the Netherlands are taking action against those who choose to run the gauntlet and ride illegally powerful ebikes, after seeing record numbers of cycling fatalities in 2022. Roadside testing stations have now been rolled out across the country.Where ebike riders in the US can hop on powerful ebikes capable of providing assistance up to 28 mph (45 km/h), only a few areas in Europe allow such speeds – and even then, the so-called speed pedelecs may need to be insured and registered, and the helmet-wearing cyclist…

Until you rewatch the early seasons, it’s easy to forget that Leon Black wasn’t always part of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David‘s permanent houseguest, played to delirious perfection by comedian J.B. Smoove, feels like a supporting player the show couldn’t exist without, yet he joined the cast in Season Six, crashing the David home along with relatives displaced by a hurricane in New Orleans (even though he already lived in L.A.). Smoove didn’t know back then that after the rest of his fictional family packed up…

NetflixOrion and the DarkFilm, US, 2024 – out 2 FebruaryThis children’s animation is a departure from Kaufman’s usual off-piste oeuvre.The squirrelly scribe Charlie Kaufman has written some amazing, weird, angsty film scripts – among them Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York – and now, in his latest film, he adapts the 40-page children’s book Orion and the Dark.The film revolves around Orion (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), a shy boy who’s afraid of many things, from girls to…

In response to the escalating number of fatal road accidents caused by tyre bursts, Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) across Maharashtra are gearing up with a fleet of 187 interceptor vehicles, now equipped with specialized tyre scanners. The move comes after a surge in crashes attributed to tyre failures last year. The distribution of interceptor vehicles sees Pune RTOs leading with seven each, while Mumbai RTOs receive three each, with an exception for Tardeo RTO, which is set to get four.According to an RTO…

It’s a running gag in the 12th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm that people keep mentioning that Larry David didn’t work on the last two seasons of Seinfeld, but then returned for the finale. Every time, Larry greets the observation with stony silence, because he knows the audience hated that finale, and assumes he is being given another thinly-veiled complaint about it. David already gave himself a mulligan on that back in 2009, when Curb Season Seven revolved around the fictionalized Larry producing a Seinfeld…

On Tuesday, Google announced a slew of new features in Chrome that continue web browsers’ inevitable march into the world of artificial intelligence. They include an AI theme generator that customizes the look of your browser, a tool that will fill any field with AI-penned text, and a new “smart” tab organizer that will coral your shameful, ever-growing herd of open websites.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Tabs Organizer and the AI theme generator come with the latest version of…

Interviewing Larry David at his Santa Monica production offices comes with photographic documentation of the entrance and a note to pull in and park as straight as possible in order to be courteous to the building’s other residents.But when I arrived on a recent Wednesday morning, someone had taken up two spots.“Oh, that’s Larry,” laughs Laura Streicher, co-executive producer of creator and star David’s famously cringe-inducing chronicle of social transgression, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “He’s a pig parker.”The…

Rajasthan Police will be organising a cyber hackathon will be organised in Jaipur from Wednesday to provide a platform to young cyber security experts, an official said on Monday. Director general of police (DGP), cyber crime, Ravi Prakash Mehrada, said the Rajasthan Police Cyber Hackathon 1.0 is being organised on January 17 and 18. Mehrada added that an attractive drone show was organised at the Rajasthan Police Academy last week. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…