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North Carolina man Michael Smith pleaded guilty to orchestrating a years-long AI-driven music streaming fraud using thousands of bot accounts to siphon more than $8 million in royalties. The scheme inflated streams across major platforms with AI-generated tracks and VPN-driven fake listeners; authorities noted ongoing industry responses around AI detection and transparency in metadata. The case underscores risks of AI-enabled automation and the need for platform defenses and governance for AI-generated content.
The Guardian argues that Western carmakers' retreat from electrification risks irrelevance as China gains ground in EVs. It traces past disruptions to Detroit, notes BYD's rise and…
Show HN post about running a transformer-based language model on a PlayStation 2. It explains hardware constraints, streaming weights from CD-ROM, and a 10M-parameter model using P…
The article reports that Ubuntu 26.04 will enable asterisks for each character typed at sudo prompts via sudo-rs and pwfeedback, a change that sparks debate on security benefits vs…
Google introduces a new developer verification layer for certified Android devices to curb sideloaded malware. Apps will need to be registered by verified developers, with a new An…