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The Group Behind '2000 Mules' Is Back With Another Election Conspiracy Film

WIRED

True the Vote is working with a Detroit pastor to produce a new documentary called, based on claims that have already been thrown out in court. True the Vote, the election denial group responsible for the debunked film that falsely alleged election fraud in the 2020 election, is preparing to release a new movie. As President Donald Trump continues to threaten the midterms, the new film is set to relitigate the 2020 election, making allegations about systemic election fraud in Black communities--allegations that have already been dismissed by multiple courts. True the Vote appears to be working with Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit who spoke at Trump's inauguration last year . Sewell told WIRED the documentary, which he has not seen yet, is called --"because people are trapped"--and will be released "in the next month or so."


The 5 must-watch science shows of 2026 so far

New Scientist

From AI with Hannah Fry to David Attenborough's early days, these are the five must-watch science documentaries of the year to date, says Bethan Ackerley In 2015, an amateur trophy hunter from the US shot and killed the largest lion in Africa. The vitriol unleashed after Cecil's death isn't surprising (or entirely unwarranted), but what is remarkable is how this delicately-crafted film uses the case as a locus for all sorts of arguments about conservation. A symbol in life and in death, Cecil and other large, charismatic animals exist in a complex balance with humans who, one way or another, invariably stake a claim on them. Almost everyone in the world now needs to have some knowledge of how AI technologies work, from all the chatbots they encounter to driverless cars and more. Mathematician Hannah Fry is an excellent person to impart such knowledge: across three episodes, she guides us through recent cases where AI has become entangled with very human problems.


REGen: Multimodal Retrieval-Embedded Generation for Long-to-Short Video Editing

Neural Information Processing Systems

Short videos are an effective tool for promoting contents and improving knowledge accessibility. While existing extractive video summarization methods struggle to produce a coherent narrative, existing abstractive methods cannot'quote' from the input videos, i.e., inserting short video clips in their outputs. In this work, we explore new video editing models for generating shorts that feature a coherent narrative with embedded video insertions extracted from a long input video. We propose a novel retrieval-embedded generation (REG) framework that allows a large language model to quote multimodal resources while maintaining a coherent narrative. Our proposed REGen system first generates the output story script with quote placeholders using a finetuned large language model, and then uses a multimodal retrieval model to replace the quote placeholders by selecting a video clip that best supports the narrative from a pool of candidate quotable video clips. We examine the proposed method on the task of documentary teaser generation, where short interview insertions are commonly used to support the narrative of a documentary. Our objective evaluations show that the proposed method can effectively insert short video clips while maintaining a coherent narrative. In a subjective survey, we show that our proposed method outperforms existing abstractive and extractive approaches in terms of coherence, alignment, and realism in documentary teaser generation.


You Found Satoshi? Let's See the Receipts

WIRED

Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they've solved the mystery of Bitcoin's creator. So why does the hunt continue? In December 2024, at the suggestion of a mutual friend, I met with a professional investigator named Tyler Maroney. He told me he was on a quest to discover the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, and he felt that he had cracked the case. My first thought was, join the club. Literally dozens of journalists and investigators have spent months or even years trying to uncover the mysterious creator of the most popular cryptocurrency, who ended his (or her or their) online presence in 2011 and amassed around $83 billion in Bitcoin.


Boys as young as 11 are being exposed to misogyny online: Study reveals how 73% have encountered harmful content without actively searching for it

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Hollywood icon who starred in Psycho after Hitchcock dubbed her'my new Grace Kelly' looks incredible at 95 Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Tucker Carlson erupts at Trump adviser as she hurls'SLANDER' claim linking him to synagogue shooting Ben Affleck'scores $600m deal' with Netflix to sell his AI film start-up Long hair over 45 is ageing and try-hard. I've finally cut mine off. Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' Boys as young as 11 are being exposed to misogyny online, experts have warned, with three-quarters saying harmful content appears without actively searching for it. A study has found that teenage boys are receiving targeted content that promotes violence and derogatory views of women. It follows the widespread impact of Netflix's drama series Adolescence, which told the story of a 13-year-old boy who brutally murders his classmate.


Catfishing a conman back on dating app days after jail release

BBC News

Within days of being released from his seventh prison term for romance fraud, Raymond McDonald was back on a dating app looking for his next victim. Over more than 20 years he had racked up 58 convictions, mostly for fraud and theft, while telling lies on an industrial scale and taking thousands of pounds from women for holidays and weddings which were never going to happen. This time when he went looking, the BBC was waiting. He thought he was having a date with Kaye, but instead found himself being approached by a BBC reporter and camera crew. He had met Kaye online and, calling himself Rob, told her he was a deep-sea diver looking for a wife.


Robbie Williams: British people are good at devaluing ourselves

BBC News

After more than three decades in entertainment, Robbie Williams is back on the road and ready to celebrate. His new album, Britpop, is his 16th number one, breaking the previous record set by the Beatles. The singer, whose Long 90s tour begins this week, is taking a moment to mark his achievement. I think as British people we're very good at piercing the balloon of our own success and undercutting it and devaluing ourselves, he tells BBC News. It's what we do best.


'I spoke to ChatGPT 8 times a day' - Gen Z's loneliness 'crisis'

BBC News

'I spoke to ChatGPT 8 times a day' - Gen Z's loneliness'crisis' Working from home after years spent alone over Covid lockdowns, 23-year-old Paisley said he began to feel trapped, and felt only AI could help him. I lost the ability to socialise, he said, and like many in Gen Z, he turned to AI for company. At one point, I was talking to ChatGPT six, seven, eight times a day about my problems, I just couldn't get away from it, it was a dangerous slope. He shared his experience of loneliness with 22-year-old documentary maker Sam Tullen, who told the BBC what Paisley was going through was part of a wider Gen Z loneliness crisis. Gen Z, a term used for those born between 1997 and 2012, often referred to as the first'digital native' generation.


10 media moments and controversies that defined 2025

FOX News

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset . Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions . Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper . Trace Gallagher: This year's resolution is for the'naughty nightly news' Chicago mayor endorses'Abolish ICE' snowplow name NYT writer downplays MN fraud scandal investigation from'politicized' DOJ CBS News correspondent claims Supreme Court corruption narrative is'patently false' Sanders rails against AI, says'science-fiction fear' of it running the world not an outrageous idea Pelosi says she didn't intend to tear up Trump's 2020 State of the Union speech MS NOW guest praises Trump's'unconventional' approach to foreign policy (1) LA Mayor Karen Bass says it's'sad' to see Latinos joining the Border Patrol Santa is'PACKING HEAT' during a traffic stop Joe Rogan roasts'crazy' White House plaques installed by Trump Jimmy Kimmel criticized for'ridiculous' Christmas message Jimmy Kimmel jabs at Trump on Christmas: 'Tyranny is booming' CBS News defends pulling '60 Minutes' story'Jesus Crown of Thorns' season 2 is available to watch now on Fox Nation Kimmel says'tyranny is booming' under Trump in UK Christmas message Sunday Morning Futures anchor Maria Bartiromo looks back at her 2025 interviews with President Donald Trump as he laid out his agenda on the border, the economy, energy and foreign policy heading into 2026. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!


A Filmmaker Made a Sam Altman Deepfake--and Got Unexpectedly Attached

WIRED

The director of created a "Sam Bot" when he couldn't get an interview with the OpenAI CEO. Watch an exclusive trailer for the documentary, which comes out in January. Director Adam Bhala Lough didn't set out to make a documentary about a digital simulacrum of Sam Altman . But after about 100 days of texting and emailing the OpenAI CEO for an interview--with no response, he claims, and with financiers hounding him to make good on his original pitch--Lough was at his wit's end. He'd exhausted just about every angle.