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Instagram makes it easier to see when you’re broadcasting music you can’t use

The Verge

Instagram has posted its guidelines for using copyrighted music during live videos, Stories, and other posts on the platform, and part of the announcement includes a new update to the notification that pops up to tell users they’re using unlicensed art in ways that violate its rules. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Reddit stopped rogue r/WallStreetBets mods from taking over the community

The Verge

On Thursday morning, “the WallStreetBets moderators who were considering the film deal began booting out other moderators who had questioned them for secretly trying to profit from the forum’s success,” reports The New York Times.

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Runway ML and Getty Images set their sights on Hollywood

Dataconomy

This model, powered by Runway AI’s technology and trained on Getty Images’ extensive dataset of licensed content, will provide a unique opportunity for companies to create videos that are not only visually stunning but also adhere to copyright guidelines. Let’s leave it to time and see.

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California ‘Star Wars Celebration’ cancelled by same organizers behind Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon

GeekWire

The event, centered around the popular sci-fi film series, was planned for Aug. The organizer of the events, Reedpop, rescheduled the popular Emerald City Comicon in Seattle from March to August in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but has not announced any plans to further postpone or cancel the event. 1 priority. 1 priority.

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Tom Hanks battles AI’s misleading dental ad deception

Dataconomy

Core insight: While Tom Hanks has occasionally embraced digital representations in film, he underscores the profound challenges—both artistic and legal—of AI and deepfake technologies creating perpetual, almost indistinguishable replicas of actors. Quick take: Tom Hanks warns about a deceptive dental ad using an AI replica of his likeness.

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Who wants to pay $3,500 for Apple’s new goggles?

Vox

Technically, it’s a video display on the front of your goggles that shows a representation of your eyes, filmed by cameras inside the goggles that are trained on your eyes, all so people won’t feel so cut off from you. Apple knows that wearing goggles cuts you off from the world, so it has created a way for people to see your eyes.

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We have NASA’s rules for tweeting in space

Vox

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield famously filmed a viral music video for David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” when he was aboard the space station in 2013. This slide was the only redacted document that Recode received after inquiring about the agency’s astronaut social media guidelines through a public records request. “I

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