The Morning After: YouTube is seriously cracking down on ad blockers

YouTube’s no longer just experimenting with ad-dodging viewers. The platform has gone all out in its fight against add-ons, extensions and programs that prevent it from serving ads to

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                        Disney to buy out Comcast and take full control of Hulu

Disney is buying the rest of Hulu from Comcast, the company has announced. It will acquire the 33 percent of Hulu Comcast still controls and expects to pay NBC Universal approximately $8.61 billion for the deal, though the final amount will be determined after an appraisal that will be wrapping up sometime next year. As

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                        Scarlett Johannson takes legal action against AI app that cloned her likeness

Oscar-nominated actor Scarlett Johansson has taken legal action against an AI app developer for using her likeness in an ad without permission, Variety has reported. The 22-second ad promoted an AI image editor called Lisa AI: 90s Yearbook & Avatar, and reportedly used an AI-generated version of Johansson's voice

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                        Apple Music's Siri-only $5 voice plan appears to be toast

Apple appears to have killed off its lowest-cost Apple Music subscription. The Apple Music Voice Plan allowed folks to access the streaming service for $5 per month, as long as they were willi

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                        The AI Seinfeld show is bugging out harder than Frank Costanza on Festivus

Twitch’s AI-generated Nothing Forever stream caused a massive sensation when it launched back in February. This is the internet, however, so it wasn’t long before the stream’s Seinfeld-like protagonist started spewing

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                        Subaru EVs will support Tesla's NACS chargers starting in 2025

Subaru just announced forthcoming support for Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS), joining other big-time man

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                        Arturia releases new free version of Analog Lab synth instrument

Arturia just released a free-to-use version of its popular Analog Lab software, called Analog Lab Play. This is a pared-down software suite with 100 presets culled from the original Analog Lab and from VS

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                        Roli is making is squishy MPE MIDI keyboards affordable and portable (again)

Roli was an early poster child for the emergence of MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression). The company has had its share of struggles over the last 10 years, but it's still out there trying to spread the gospel of MPE. Its first product after filling for administration in the UK (kind of like bankruptcy) and rebrandi

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