Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro blasted former President Donald Trump as a “total monster” during an appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday. “He’s such a mean, nasty, hateful person. I’d never play him as an actor, because I can’t see any good in him. Nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing redeemable in … Read more
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In the seemingly endless fight between record labels and ISPs over music piracy, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia decided Tuesday that $1 billion is too much for Cox Communications to pay record labels in damages. Instead, as reported by Reuters, a new trial should be set in a federal district court … Read more
Meta Generative AI has made it possible to create realistic images that look like they were taken by a human, making it harder to differentiate between what is real and what is AI-generated. As a result, Meta announced several efforts regarding AI-generated images to help combat the misinformation. On Tuesday, Meta announced via a blog … Read more
Universal Music Group wiping their songs from TikTok is going to hurt the label’s smaller artists the most … so says a musician who saw the app elevate his own artistic brand. Mareux had his 2015 cover of The Cure’s “The Perfect Girl” go viral in 2021 and it vaulted him to a Coachella performance … Read more
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As first reported by the Financial Times, independent labels Beggars Group, Secretly Group, and Partisan Records are pushing back against Apple’s preferential payouts for spatial audio. They say independent artists who can’t afford to record in spatial audio would make less because of how streaming music payouts work. Apple said artists on Apple Music can … Read more
Headlines This WeekMajor newspapers are trying to carve out a deal with AI firms, as an argument brews over the copyrighted material that said firms have used to train their content-generating algorithms. NYC Mayor Eric Adams has found the certifiably most annoying use of AI, which is to spam city residents with automated robocalls. Well … Read more
Netflix drama Everything Now is set to be a favourite amongst younger and older generations alike for its hedonistic, nostalgic take on teenage life, from first romances to drug dabbling and house parties. The show follows Mia (played by Talk to Me star Sophie Wilde), a sixth-form student who returns to school after a stint … Read more
Nick Cannon labels Kenneth Petty as ‘Detrimental’ for Nicki Minaj Nick Cannon recently labelled rapper Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, as “destructive” for the songstress’s music career and brand. Petty has been under 120 days of house arrest following his threats against Cardi B’s husband, Offset. According to The Blast, the American television personality recently … Read more
Procuring cart in a division of a Carrefour grocery store, in entrance of pastas and sauces. Andia | Common Pictures Group | Getty Pictures French grocery chain Carrefour has taken the bizarre step of including labels to its merchandise which have lately shrunk in measurement however have ramped up in worth. The transfer — each … Read more
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Many communities on Reddit have used the NSFW (Not Secure For Work) designation in some kind to protest Reddit’s new API pricing, which compelled apps like Apollo and rif is enjoyable for Reddit to close down, in addition to a current sample of habits towards its unpaid volunteer moderators that they discover “threatening.” Subreddits, together … Read more