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In the third week of Russia's war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video, dressed in a dark green shirt, speaking slowly and deliberately while standing behind a white presidential podium featuring his country's coat of arms. Except for his head, the Ukrainian president's body barely moved as he spoke. His voice sounded distorted and almost gravelly as he appeared to tell Ukrainians to surrender to Russia. "I ask you to lay down your weapons and go back to your families," he appeared to say in Ukrainian in the clip, which was quickly identified as a deepfake. "This war is not worth dying for. I suggest you to keep on living, and I am going to do the same."

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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what clicked this week in entertainment. Netflix's viral true-crime documentary "The Tinder Swindler" had millions of viewers crying foul after it began streaming on the platform Feb. 2. The mind-bending story from director Felicity Morris, who also produced the Emmy-winning series, "Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer," chronicles the depths a Tinder user by the name of Shimon Hayut, now 31, would go to to charm women around the world into loaning him money – to the tune of an estimated $10 million. Hayut posed as Simon Leviev and claimed to be the son of a diamond mogul on the popular dating app. It was only when a group of women banded together to expose Leviev that his scheme was foiled, and he was ultimately convicted of fraud, theft and forgery.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020 prompted a rapid and unprecedented adoption of streaming in nearly all aspects of life from, education to business and even leisure. Two years after the pandemic began, streaming services like Zoom, Teams, and many others have become household names. We now rely on these services to connect us with friends and family, conduct work meetings, and connect when we cannot be physically present. With the rapid adoption of new streaming tools, many have tried to replicate the in-person meeting experience without utilizing the benefits that these new tools can provide. By now many of us have probably experienced "Zoom Fatigue" from being in constant virtual meetings throughout the day.

Spotify is trying out a new "Car Mode" on a handful of users, the streaming service confirmed to TechCrunch. Last year the company retired its old Car View mode, explaining that it needed to pave the way for "new innovations". The new in-car interface, called "Car Mode" appears to be more focused on voice controls than the older version. The jury is still out on whether hands-free voice recognition actually makes driving safer (some studies suggest drivers who use voice controls are more distracted). But the new revamp does offer less visual distractions and a cleaner interface.

In the 16th episode of the business intelligence report in partnership with Bright Talk, we'll be taking a deeper look into machine learning solutions, in particular, data-centric machine learning and machine learning pipelines, in conversation with Rajdeep Biswas, Director, Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning at Microsoft and Nik Spirin, Co-founder & CEO at Metapixel AI Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence, that includes algorithms that parses the data, learn from the data, and then apply what they have learned to make informed decisions. There are hundreds of examples of machine learning; the music streaming service, for instance, uses ML to make a decision about which new song or artist to recommend to a listener. Machine learning algorithms associate the listeners' preferences with other listeners who have similar musical tastes. This technique is used in many services that offer an automatic recommendation. More specifically, right now deep learning (DL) is considered an evolution of machine learning and it uses programmable neural networks that enable machines to make accurate decisions without the help of humans so it's, it's more sophisticated.

The world never run out of bad'B' movies to mock, apparently, because Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is back for a 13th season, Variety has reported. Thanks to a Kickstarter campaign last year that raised $6.52 million, a full 13-episode season of the series will arrive on a dedicated streaming platform called Gizmoplex starting on May 6th. As usual, some ordinary humans have been kidnapped by mad scientists (played by Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt and Mary Jo Pehl) and are forced to watch some terrible B-movies. To survive the process, they create companion robots to help provide a continuous stream of taunting and jokes throughout the entire running length of the films. This year there will be three hosts: Jonah Heston, Emily Connor, and original host Joel Robinson.

In Christopher Nolan's film Tenet, the future is at war with the past "because the oceans rose and the rivers ran dry." Thanks to catastrophic climate change, no path lay ahead for our descendants, and their only hope was to carve out a future by orchestrating a genocide in our past. As the film's protagonist, Neil, explains: "Every generation looks out for its own survival." It's hard to watch a film like Tenet and not contemplate the longer-term consequences of our actions -- how will the future judge us? Working in product, we tend to approach most opportunities with good intention.

Banks and other financial institutions utilizing artificial intelligence may be uniquely susceptible to retaliatory Russian cyberattacks as taxing international sanctions worsen, experts warn. Those fears, highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal report, comes as Russia's war on Ukraine trundles forward into its second month and as an unprecedented barrage of international sanctions continue to chip away at the Russian economy. Andrew Burt, a former policy adviser to the head of the cyber division at the FBI, described AI vulnerabilities as "significant and very widely overlooked" at many financial institutions that have come to rely on them. "I haven't seen any real abilities in terms of being able to defend against the flood of disinformation," Montreal AI Ethics Institute Founder Abhishek Gupta told The Journal. While those security weaknesses are cause for concern even in the best of times, government leaders including President Biden worry Russia may use cyberattacks to lash out against these institutions as sanctions take a continued toll.