<p>Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator&nbsp;Matt Mullenweg said he would be deactivating the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, two of whom he says planned to spearhead a new fork of the open source WordPress project. While community criticism of WordPress&#8217;s governance isn&#8217;t new, the latest brouhaha kicked off back in September when Mullenweg publicly chastised [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TV providers and streamers&#8217; real competition isn&#8217;t each other, it&#8217;s social video. Or at least that&#8217;s what the president of Comcast Advertising, James Rooke, said during an interview on Wednesday at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The ad exec was speaking about the company&#8217;s Monday launch of &#8220;universal ads,&#8221; a solution that lets marketers buy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end its third-party fact-checking system, loosen content moderation policies, and roll back previous limits to the amount of political content in user feeds.  Critics see the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>VLC media player, the popular open source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles &#8212; which can then also be translated in many languages &#8212; for any video using open source AI models that run locally on users&#8217; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Triller, a would-be competitor to TikTok, is hoping to capitalize on the potential TikTok ban in the U.S. by pitching to creators to move their content from the popular short-form video app to its own. The company has now launched a website, SaveMyTikToks.com, which promises to back up all your TikTok videos by uploading them [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company&#8217;s Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model — the latest version of OpenAI&#8217;s DALL-E 3 model, code-named PR16 — would allow users to create images &#8220;twice as fast [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The former chief executive of the parent company of MoviePass, Theodore Farnsworth, pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud and conspiracy after being accused of misleading investors over the service&#8217;s &#8220;unlimited plan.&#8221; Farnsworth also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud as the chief executive of Vinco Ventures, a publicly traded company. Helios &amp; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>X wants to make its platform a home to the future of news and journalism. On that front, the company has now hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, to lead its news group and partnership team at X. The hiring news was announced on Tuesday during [&hellip;]</p>

<p>X wants to make its platform a home to the future of news and journalism. On that front, the company has now hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, to lead its news group and partnership team at X. The hiring news was announced on Tuesday during [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As Peacock continues to trail behind major players in the entertainment industry like Netflix, TikTok, and YouTube, the streaming service is adopting strategies similar to its rivals with two new initiatives: mini-games and a short-form vertical video feed. The company announced these experiments at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday. Starting this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The combined entity is expected to be valued at $3.7 billion based on yesterday’s closing share prices. </p>

<p>The combined entity is expected to be valued at $3.7 billion based on yesterday’s closing share prices. </p>

<p>Long gone are the days of simply watching the news. Google unveiled the latest version of its TV operating system at CES 2025 on Monday. It uses the company&#8217;s Gemini AI assistant to summarize the biggest news of the day for you. By asking Gemini to play your &#8220;News Brief,&#8221; the AI assistant will scrape [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Long gone are the days of simply watching the news. Google unveiled the latest version of its TV operating system at CES 2025 on Monday. It uses the company&#8217;s Gemini AI assistant to summarize the biggest news of the day for you. By asking Gemini to play your &#8220;News Brief,&#8221; the AI assistant will scrape [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks — one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google&#8217;s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, in October — will lead the new team, he announced in a post on X. It&#8217;ll be a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks — one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google&#8217;s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, in October — will lead the new team, he announced in a post on X. It&#8217;ll be a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Will.i.am’s history with consumer tech has been — let’s just say “spotty.” The musician/entrepreneur loves gadgets, this much we can say for certain. For his latest trick, the Black Eyed Pea is returning as LG’s &#8220;Experiential Architect” in conjunction with CES 2025. What does such a role entail? Suggesting ideas for Bluetooth speakers and headphones, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Will.i.am’s history with consumer tech has been — let’s just say “spotty.” The musician/entrepreneur loves gadgets, this much we can say for certain. For his latest trick, the Black Eyed Pea is returning as LG’s &#8220;Experiential Architect” in conjunction with CES 2025. What does such a role entail? Suggesting ideas for Bluetooth speakers and headphones, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a surprising deal announced on Monday, Disney is set to combine its Hulu Live TV business with Fubo, the live TV streaming service known for its extensive sports coverage. Under the terms of the deal, Disney will own about 70% of Fubo, which will continue to be available to viewers as a separate offering.    [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Have you ever watched a food scene on TV and thought, wow, I wish I could cook that at home? Maybe it was the il timpano in &#8220;Big Night,&#8221; or the beef bourguignon in &#8220;Julie &amp; Julia.&#8221; Whatever your show-inspired craving, you&#8217;re in luck — if you buy a 2025 Samsung TV, that is. During [&hellip;]</p>