BREAKING: Iran Bombs U.S. Consulate in Iraq‚ Takes Credit in Massive Escalation

Hamas Announces Deaths of Israeli Hostages‚ Blames IDF Airstrikes

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Illustration: The Verge Yesterday TikTok presented me with what appeared to be a deepfake of Timothee Chalamet sitting in Leonardo Dicaprio’s lap and yes‚ I did immediately think “if this stupid video is that good imagine how bad the election misinformation will be.” OpenAI has‚ by necessity‚ been thinking about the same thing and today updated its policies to begin to address the issue. The Wall Street Journal noted the new change in policy which were first published to OpenAI’s blog. ChatGPT‚ Dall-e‚ and other OpenAI tool users and makers are now forbidden from using OpenAI’s tools to impersonate candidates or local governments and users cannot use OpenAI’s tools for campaigns or lobbying either. Users are also not permitted to use OpenAI tools to discourage... Continue reading…

YouTube began waging war against ad blockers last year in an attempt to force users to either sign up for a YouTube Premium subscription or actually watch the ads they were being served. Most popular ad blockers have since been updated to bypass the crackdown‚ but YouTube is refusing to back down from the persistent ad blockers. On Saturday‚ a trending post on Reddit showed a YouTube video starting to buffer whenever a user enabled the AdBlock extension. Hundreds of Redditors chimed in with similar complaints‚ while some said they figured it was an issue with their internet connection. 9to5Google tested the reports by visiting YouTube with and without an ad blocker enabled. They found that the site was indeed significantly slower when using an ad blocker. Not only did videos buffer more slowly‚ but previews didn't load correctly and it was impossible to enter full screen or theater mode without refreshing the entire site. According to 9to5Google‚ this is happening due to "an artificial timeout written within YouTube’s code to act as a laggy internet connection." This has been present in the code for quite a while‚ but it appears that YouTube has been using it more liberally lately. If you use an ad blocker extension like AdBlock Plus‚ uBlock Origin‚ or Ghostery and you're having trouble with YouTube lately‚ you might want to try turning it off. YouTube would clearly prefer for everyone to pay $13.99⁠ a month for YouTube Premium. Anyone who doesn't will be fighting to avoid ads on YouTube for the foreseeable future. Don't Miss: YouTube’s ad crackdown could cause ‘suboptimal viewing‚’ Google admits The post YouTube slowing down load times for users with ad blockers appeared first on BGR. Trending Right Now: The Gmail purge is about to begin: Last chance to stop Google from deleting your old accounts

Oxfam International‚ an anti-poverty advocacy group based in Africa‚ said in its annual inequality report that the world could see its first trillionaire within the next 10 years while it would take 230 years to eradicate poverty.

Missile strikes in Iraq did not affect any U.S. facilities and there were no American casualties‚ two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday‚ as Iran's Revolutionary Guards took credit for a strike near Iraq's northern city of Erbil.

Tensions endured by sea faring vessels in the Red Sea showed no signs of alleviation on Monday as UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) issued fresh warnings to international shippers to avoid parts of the Gulf of Aden.

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale‚ California‚ introduced its new X-59 supersonic jet designed to provide an acceptable noise standard to overcome regulations that have prohibited supersonic flights over land since 1973.