AI News No, Neil Finn doesn’t need Viagra—thanks, though by Alex Cooper The internet strikes again. In a bizarre case of AI deception, Crowded House frontman Neil Finn became the unwitting face of a fake erectile dysfunction ad, prompting the band to…
Music News MF DOOM’s estate sues Temu over ‘Unethical’ Knockoffs by Alex Cooper How villainous. The estate of legendary rapper MF DOOM has launched a legal assault against Temu, accusing the e-commerce giant of flooding its platform with counterfeit merchandise bearing the late…
AI Music News AI Band, Fake Spokesman, Real Chaos: The Velvet Sundown Debacle by Alex Cooper A meta-hoax that exposed how easily misinformation spreads. In a twist stranger than fiction, Andrew Frelon, self-proclaimed “spokesman” for AI-generated “band” The Velvet Sundown, has admitted he was never part…
News World A woman wrote fake Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia for 10 years by Tammy Moir For over ten years, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” or user 折毛 created a spectacular amount of imaginative, and made-up alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia….
News his company is making the world’s first 3D-printed vegan steaks by Claire Adema With the plant-based meat industry taking off, a company in Israel is bringing us the world’s first 3D-printed vegan meat. It’s well known that meat production is harmful to the…
Arts News A long-lost Frida Kahlo painting has been discovered by Julia Lo Surdo A Spanish art dealer has come forward, declaring that they have found a long-lost Frida Kahlo painting. The painting is called La Mesa Herida (The Wounded Table) and has been…
Books Lists News Fake by Stephanie Wood, A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop and more – Happy’s Weekend Reading by Happy Sliding into the depths of winter brings forth fantasies of fireplaces, mulled wine and blissfully ignoring the outside world. There are a swathe of new books to keep you company…
