Fraudsters and scammers are taking advantage of the recent crypto tailwind to up their attacks on the crypto community, warns Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Garlinghouse said in a statement posted to X on Wednesday that the broader market rally has spurred scammers to impersonate the official Ripple YouTube account and potentially con users. Losses to … Read more
Google announced today that Photos users can turn their photos into videos using AI. To spread the love, they have also announced the same thing for YouTube Shorts creators. You’ll simply upload a photo to YouTube, then Veo 2 can have some fun and generate a whole storyline for you around the photo. Google says, … Read more
Apple, Anthropic, and other major artificial intelligence (AI) firms have reportedly trained AI models on data from hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos. A new report claims that multiple AI companies used a publicly available dataset called Pile which contained the plain text of videos’ subtitles without any video imagery. The data was collected from … Read more
Apple has reportedly claimed that the Open-source Efficient Language Models (OpenELM) AI model it released recently was not used for its Apple Intelligence or any of the company’s machine learning features. The Cupertino-based tech giant open-sourced the OpenELM model in April. The reported statement comes just days after an investigation found that the AI model … Read more
Apple Music is getting a new cross-platform feature which will allow users to transfer their playlists to YouTube Music. Although the Cupertino-based tech giant highlights that playlists can be transferred to “another service”, only YouTube Music is currently supported. However, users will only be able to transfer the playlists which are self-created or created collaboratively. … Read more
YouTube has introduced new creator tools for Shorts – its short-form videos – on Android and iOS platforms. With the new feature, creators can now customise the thumbnails of their short videos by tweaking them with text, filters and emojis. Additionally, it is now giving them more choices when choosing thumbnails, even after YouTube Shorts … Read more
Elon Musk has previously expressed support for cryptocurrencies publicly, but the billionaire was recently impersonated by cybercriminals who hacked an Australian broadcaster in an attempt to target gullible investors. Over the last few years, Musk has shaken up the crypto market via posts on X (formerly Twitter). Now, his popularity is being used by criminals … Read more
YouTube announced several new and updated features in October. Among them were a new sleep timer, a resizable miniplayer, and some visual improvements. The Alphabet-owned video streaming platform has now reportedly started rolling out a redesigned version of the playback speed box. This is said to allow users to control the playback speed more intricately. This feature was … Read more
Opportunist crypto scammers took advantage of the hype around Apple’s ‘Glowtime’ iPhone 16 event on September 9 to fish for potential victims through Google-owned video streaming app YouTube. Several users posted screenshots of multiple scam videos, that showed Cook promoting crypto giveaways, advertising investment schemes, and instigating crypto transactions through QR codes being flashed on … Read more
The official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court of India that was used for streaming proceedings was purportedly compromised by hackers on Friday showing crypto advertisements. The channel was uploaded with videos relating to a cryptocurrency product. The entire page has been deleted since. The top court has been using the video streaming platform to live … Read more