‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career | Society

When Cara Hunter, the Stormont politician, looks back on the moment she found out she had been deepfaked, she says it is “like watching a horror movie”. The setting is her grandmother’s rural home in the west of Tyrone on her 90th birthday, April 2022. “Everyone was there,” she says. “I was sitting with all…

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Mastercard Picks Polygon to Bring Verified Usernames to Self-Custody Wallets

Mastercard (MA) has chosen Polygon to power a new system that lets people send crypto to verified usernames instead of long wallet addresses, the companies said on Tuesday. Mastercard Crypto Credential standardizes how blockchain addresses are verified by enabling human-readable aliases that correspond to a verified individual, the company said in a an emailed press…

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The AI healthcare gold rush is here

AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast.  In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for healthcare, and Sam Altman-backed MergeLabs closed a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health and voice AI, but so are concerns about hallucination risks, inaccurate medical information, and…

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Through the lens of history, Trump’s legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall

For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch towers with their searchlights and armed guards, the minefields in no-man’s land, the notorious Checkpoint Charlie border post, and the Wall itself – all were swept aside in an extraordinary,…

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2025 Critics Choice Awards Film and TV Nominations — Full List

This week’s glut of awards wins and nominations (deep breath: Indie Spirits, Gothams, NYFCC, NBR, AFI, oh my!) is wrapping up in double-stuffed fashion with today’s announcement of the Critics Choice Awards nominations for both film and television. This year’s pack of nominees is led by “Sinners,” “Adolescence,” “One Battle After Another,” and “Nobody Wants…

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