Is Instagram shadowbanning LGBTQ and sex ed accounts?

On Instagram, artist Michael Kerschner posts collaborative queer portraits on his account, @queeringbeauty. Like many LGBTQ creators on the platform, Kerschner has received a warning that his account can’t be viewed by non-followers — aka, he’s been shadowbanned. “How does it feel? Horrible,” Kerschner told Mashable. His photo series is about embracing a fabulousness queer…

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Google SGE updated to include relevant site info directly in the responses, expanding to Japan and India

If you’re one of the lucky ones with access to Google Search Labs, from now on you’ll notice that its generative AI search tool looks a little different. As of Thursday, Search Generative Experience, or SGE for short, now includes reference links directly within the AI-generated response. SEE ALSO: Google Chrome will use generative AI…

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‘The Killer’ trailer: Michael Fassbender and David Fincher team up for assassin thriller

Full of shoot-outs, chase scenes, and more, the trailer for The Killer promises another stylish nail-biter from David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club). The film stars Michael Fassbender as an assassin with a clear-cut routine. He does yoga before each kill, destroys the evidence, then repeats. “Stick to the plan,” he tells himself throughout the teaser,…

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Meta releases SeamlessM4T AI model for text and speech translation

Meta‘s latest AI output is a major advancement for real-time text and speech translation. On Tuesday, the company released SeamlessM4T: a multimodal model that translates text to speech and vice versa. Meta claims SeamlessM4T is “the first all-in-one multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model,” meaning it is uniquely able to translate and transcribe languages…

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