TIME Friday November 17, 2023
The widely anticipated final season of The Crown picks up with the 1997 fatal car crash that saw Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) pursued by paparazzi in Paris. The drama unpacks the royal family’s tumultuous relationship with the media, including the paparazzi—among them Mario Brenna, who captured the first photographs of Diana and Dodi embracing on a yacht off the coast of Sardinia in the summer of 1997. Time looks at how the depiction of Brenna “stacks up against history.”
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THE VERGE Friday November 17, 2023
YouTube has laid out how it plans to crack down on AI clones of musicians with two new sets of content guidelines, notes The Verge. The video platform will give music labels a way to take down content that “mimics an artist’s unique singing or rapping voice.” Creators, meanwhile, will be required to label AI-generated content beginning next year. The labels will appear in video descriptions, and on top of the videos themselves for sensitive material. Penalties for not labeling AI-generated content accurately will vary, but could include takedowns.
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David Schonauer Friday November 17, 2023
Hungary's government determined in late October that five photos on display at the prestigious World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest violated the law restricting children's access to content that
depicts homosexuality or gender change. PPD noted recently that viewing of the exhibition was restricted to people over 18. Later, the director of the Hungarian National Museum, Laszlo L. Simon, was
fired from his job. … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday November 16, 2023
Mass shootings involving AR-15s have become a recurring American nightmare, but, notes The Washington Post in an article published today, the full effects of the weapon's destructive force are rarely
seen in public. Crime scene photos and records are often shielded by laws and court rulings. Even when photographs are available, news organizations generally do not publish them, out of concern
about potentially dehumanizing … Read the full Story >>
