Musician Benn Jordan explains how he used “adversarial noise” — a technique applied to audio files that sounds normal to humans, but like something else entirely to AI models — to poison music generators. The “Poisonify” attack “makes music not only untrainable but threatens to degrade the entire model” too, according to Jordan, much like the Nightshade tool that artists use to protect their work.
YouTube’s deal to stream Coachella performances continues through 2026, and tonight you can start watching the festival’s first weekend, free of charge.
This year, aside from the long list of performing artists and occasional special guests, the options include split-screen multiview, “watch with” commentary streams by creators if you need some narration, a vertical livestream if you prefer the YouTube Shorts look, and dedicated apps for your Android device or iPhone / iPad.
Bluesky accounts for Adobe and Photoshop were dogpiled by the creative community shortly after making their first posts on the platform, attracting hundreds of negative comments before the posts were removed. The creative software giant’s image problem is no easy fix, having long been lambasted by its own users over subscription pricing models, AI adoption, and market domination.
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According to a legal filing X is willing to drop Twitch from its antitrust lawsuit accusing advertisers of an “illegal boycott,” but only if Twitch meets “certain conditions” by the end of the year — though it hasn’t said what those are. Amazon-owned Twitch wasn’t one of the initial companies X sued, but was added at a later date. It’s not the first to get out either — Unilever was dropped from the suit in October 2024.
