All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Twitter Begins Paying Interest on Its Massive Debt
Twitter has made its first interest payment on its more than $US12.5 ($17) billion in looming debt, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Financial Times. Elon Musk took out billions of dollars in loans back in October 2022, as part of the billionaire’s successful push to purchase Twitter and take the social media platform…
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Showtime De-Fangs Let the Right One In After a Single Season
Let the Right One In — the gorgeously bleak 2008 Swedish movie based on the 2004 Swedish horror novel — is remembered fondly for its unique vampire story, exploring the grim but loving relationship between a girl who thirsts for blood and the man who acts as her protector and prey-snatcher. The Showtime series based…
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AI Voice Simulator Easily Abused to Deepfake Celebrities Spouting Racism and Homophobia
Who could have possibly seen this coming? AI image generators have been used to create non-consensual pornography of celebrities, but why would that same user base dare abuse a free AI text-to-speech deepfake voice generator?
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Crunchyroll Has Quietly Launched Gundam: The Witch From Mercury’s English Dub
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury’s first season was one of Gizmodo’s favourites last year, but if you were waiting for the series to get dubbed into English before you hopped on the high-fivin’ hype train, then good news: it looks like your time is right now.