Month: June 2025
More than a third of US tech workers prefer to learn from YouTube rather than more traditional online courses – and I, for once, totally agree
Over half of tech workers secretly stay late to learn what they pretended to know, survey finds YouTube has become the go-to fix for real-time workplace panic and skill gaps Fake it in meetings, Google it later – this is the reality for modern tech workers In the fast-paced environment…
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YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts
YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Shorts creators can already take advantage of the previous-generation Veo 2 model…
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Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools
From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout the build process. We talk to Amazon’s Daniel Rausch about the next version of the voice assistant. Source
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Meta is finally adding passkey support for Facebook and Messenger
Meta is finally adding passkey support for Facebook and Messenger on mobile devices. This should make for more seamless logins, as a passkey lets people sign in by using the same data they already use to verify their identities on a smartphone. This includes stuff like a PIN code, a…
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Death Stranding is getting an animated film
The strange world of Death Stranding just keeps on expanding. As Deadline reports, Hideo Kojima’s ghostly, post-apocalyptic video game is getting a spinoff in the form of an animated film. While there aren’t a lot of details yet, the animated feature will supposedly be in the same mold as other…
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Netflix’s best thriller of 2025? This new show has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and is a nail-biter
It’s not been a great week for calm beachside bathing: on Monday I was writing about all four Jaws movies coming to a streaming device near you, and now Netflix’s new critical hit The Survivors will make you wary of what might wash up. The six-part series has become one…
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