Channel 4 reveals that the anchor who narrates and appears throughout a special titled "Will AI Take My Job?" was AI-generated, a first for British television (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/ai-news-anchor-channel-4-1236557295/…
Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.
TRM Labs launches Beacon Network, a real-time alert system for illicit crypto activity, partnering with law enforcement and exchanges like Binance and Coinbase (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/08/19
Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting
Ukraine: Heftigster russischer Angriff seit Wochen
Russland hat die Ukraine nach ukrainischen Angaben in der Nacht mit Hunderten Drohnen und Raketen angegriffen. Die russischen Streitkräfte hätten 574 Drohnen und 40 Raketen gestartet, erklärte die ukrainische Luftwaffe.
546 Drohnen und 31 Raketen seien von der Luftabwehr abgeschossen worden. An elf Orten seien Treffer verzeichnet worden, an drei we…
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Trump refused to answer a question from an ABC reporter at his sitdown with Argentine President Javier Milei on Tuesday,
citing host George Stephanopoulos’s evisceration of Vice President JD Vance on Sunday.
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AnchorSync: Global Consistency Optimization for Long Video Editing
Zichi Liu, Yinggui Wang, Tao Wei, Chao Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14609 https://arxiv…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Rekord-Botnet abgeschaltet: 22-Jähriger aus Oregon beschuldigt