Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged it
Jason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend last month. The friend, bassist Burniss Earl Travis, was curious about Moran’s new record that he saw on the music streaming service Spotify.
“It has your name on it,” Travis told him. “But I don’t think it’s you.”
Continue reading...Unite Here co-president demands improvement in working conditions and urges Fifa to keep ICE away from matches
A hospitality union that represents about 2,000 workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles has threatened to strike during the World Cup if Fifa leaders do not heed their concerns about working conditions and the presence of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
This summer, SoFi Stadium will be thrust into the national spotlight as it hosts eight World Cup matches. Between June and July, Los Angeles is estimated to see 150,000 more out-of-town visitors than typical for the time period.
Continue reading...Sudanese national Alnour Mohamed Ali, accused of piloting small boat, is charged with endangering life
A man accused of piloting a small boat carrying four people who drowned trying to cross the Channel has been charged over their deaths.
Alnour Mohamed Ali, a Sudanese national, was charged with endangering life after two men and two women died trying to board a small boat crossing the Channel on Thursday, the National Crime Agency said.
Continue reading...Iran dropped explosives in the waterway erratically and may not have marked where it put all of them, US suggests
Iran is unable to find the mines it laid in the strait of Hormuz and does not have the capacity to remove the explosives, preventing Iran from allowing more traffic through the waterway, the New York Times reported, citing US officials.
The opening of the strait of Hormuz – a chokepoint for a fifth of the world’s oil supply – is a primary demand of the US to end the war in Iran. The virtual closure of the strait sent fuel prices soaring, creating the world’s largest energy crisis in decades and putting pressure on US president Donald Trump at home.
Continue reading...Damien Douxchamps has added a photo to the pool:
The moon is on the news these days, so let's have a moon pic for good measure...
This is the wall of a small building on the edge of a property along the main road between Kita-Kamakura and Kamakura stations. The moon and the rabbit are small windows, likely illuminating a traditional Japanese room, possibly a tea room.
And yeah, kudos to the four rabbits who managed to get there and all the people who were behind them!
BEIROET (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Bij Israëlische aanvallen op Zuid-Libanon zijn tien mensen omgekomen, onder wie hulpverleners. Dat melden Libanese media op gezag van het Libanese ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Het zou gaan om drie aanvallen in de regio Nabatieh. Het ministerie beticht Israël ervan "systematisch" aanvallen uit te voeren op hulpverleners.
Een Iraanse delegatie is zaterdag in Islamabad om daar onder bemiddeling van gastland Pakistan te spreken met de VS over een einde aan de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Iran heeft gedreigd niet aan te schuiven als het niet eerst toezeggingen krijgt over een wapenstilstand in Libanon, waar het door Iran gesteunde Hezbollah strijdt tegen Israël.
De Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu beval eerder dat moest worden onderhandeld met Libanon, maar zei daarvoor ook al dat het conflict in Libanon geen onderdeel uitmaakt van het staakt-het-vuren tussen de VS en Iran.
Iran meldde zaterdag opnieuw dat een regionaal staakt-het-vuren voor Teheran een harde eis is.
