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“The choice of Senator J. D. Vance as former President Donald Trump’s running mate reflected the confidence of a campaign so sure of victory in November that it could look beyond a second Trump term to the legacy of his movement,” the New York Times reports. “But in less than two weeks, Mr.

I fell in love with her voice as soon as I heard it. Spektor is now back to performing live. Regina Spektor kicked off her summer tour on Wednesday night with a sold-out solo show at the Egg. For an hour and 40 minutes, the piano virtuoso and indie pop songstress enchanted the 1,000 in attendance with lighthearted stage banter and material spanning her 21-year career. Spektor remains a stunning pianist, one of the greatest in popular music history, and a singular, exceedingly likable personality.

“Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has waded into one of the thorniest issues facing U. S. politics: deepfake videos,” the New York Times reports. “On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris that appears to have been digitally manipulated to change the spot’s voice-over in a deceptive manner.” “The video mimics Ms.

Vice President Kamala Harris—the current presumptive Democratic nominee for President after Joe Biden stepped down from the race—joined the app TikTok on July 25, and is already making an impression. Having uploaded four videos so far, Harris had racked up 7 million likes and 2.7 million followers at the time of publication.

WASHINGTON — In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department late Friday accused TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion. Government lawyers wrote in a brief filed to the federal appeals court in Washington that TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance used an internal web-suite system called Lark to enable TikTok employees to speak directly with ByteDance engineers in China. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] TikTok employees used Lark to send sensitive data about U.

This is a reminder for those who forget that Iran is using violent proxies to destroy Israel, one resident at a time.