AI music generator Suno has been hacked, detailing the data scraping of millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

According to 404 Media, a hacker has breached the company database of Suno, an online AI music generation tool. The hack is said to reveal multiple references to the training data it scraped from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and others. Suno has previously admitted that its tool was trained on “essentially all music files of…

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Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections: ‘These layoffs and cuts are not difficult decisions, but simply profit being put over the people that make this company run’

Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections in response to tech giant workforce cuts over the past few months. According to The Guardian, the union-led petition calls for guaranteed severance, buyouts before mandatory layoffs, and the option to take severance as extended paid leave. Employees reportedly chanted “Google, Google, you…

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EA vice president of advertising says game ads are a ‘huge opportunity’, but it ‘has to make sense for the game’

EA announced it’d be creating a whole new platform for advertising last month, something I’m sure has you so excited you’re jumping out of your seat and clicking your heels. You might be potentially doing a little dance and saying ‘yipee!’ Personally speaking, the very thought exhausts me, though Alexander Dao, EA’s vice president of…

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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse isn’t technically connected to the Netflix anime, but its cinematography was inspired by the show

When Konami revealed back in February that it’s finally making a new Castlevania, the teaser trailer’s art and color palette was so reminiscent of the Netflix anime series that it seemed possible the game was actually using the show’s designs, or at least had gotten a little love from the folks at Powerhouse Animation. In…

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