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YouTube announced today how it will handle the impact of AI technology on the music industry on its video hosting platform and its partnerships with artists, labels, and other rightsholders. The company believes AI can “enhance music’s unique creative expression,” but it must protect artists’ work. YouTube’s Music AI Incubator …

Nintendo announced Monday morning that Mario voice actor Charles Martinet is leaving. In over 100 Mario video games, the 67-year-old Martinet voiced Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and their babies in addition to the world’s most famous plumber. “Charles Martinet has been the original voice of Mario in Nintendo games for a …

Cellebrite phone hacking technology has been used by police and other government agencies worldwide for years to unlock phones and steal data. The company has been careful to use its technology secretly. Has learned that Cellebrite requires users to keep its tech and use of it secret as part of …

Bluesky, a Twitter competitor, buckled after Elon Musk announced that X will only support mutes instead of “block” functions. Bluesky users experienced slow post loading and occasional error messages. Graphics and images loaded slowly. Additionally, the site’s status page reported a performance issue being investigated. The Bluesky team has not …

After testing with select users for a month, Tumblr is launching its new web browser. The new navigation interface moves Twitter’s navigation bar to the left, like X. The new look moves the compose button to the bottom left of the screen, like on X. The company says it made …

True Anomaly, a defense-focused space technology startup, received regulatory permits to demonstrate imaging and rendezvous on-orbit for the first time. The NOAA and FCC authorizations allow the company to perform non-Earth imaging and demonstrate in-space rendezvous proximity operations. In a mission early next year, True Anomaly will use two Jackals …

Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for years, but the platform is about to let streamers control who can watch. In Twitch’s latest Patch Notes, its monthly product update show, the company announced that streamers could soon block banned users. If moderators or streamers enable it, banned users will …

Threads hasn’t launched a web version, but the app’s latest update highlights social media reposts. Meta changed two app reposts. First, the profile page now has a “Reposts” tab so users can quickly browse their reposts. Users can now view their liked posts in the settings page, the company announced …

Elon Musk plans to “soon” address the lack of transparency around “shadowbanning” on Twitter, which involves not banning a user but removing their content from public view. Musk apologized to X users for the delay and explained what’s preventing X from providing this data. Shadowbanning was a concern even in …

The U.S. cybersecurity agency warned that hackers are exploiting a new vulnerability in another enterprise file transfer software. CISA added Citrix ShareFile vulnerability CVE-2023-24489 to its KEV catalog on Wednesday. The flaw poses “significant risks to the federal enterprise,” and the agency ordered federal civilian executive branch agencies, including CISA, …