In March, several YouTube content creators seemed to receive a private video from the platforms CEO, Neal Mohan. It turns out that it was not Mohan in the video, rather an AI-generated version of him created by scammers out to steal credentials and install malware. This may stir memories of other recent, high-profile AI-powered scams. Last year, robocalls featuring the voice of President Joe Biden urged people not to vote in the primaries. The calls made use of AI to mimic Bidens voice, AP News reports.Examples of these kinds of deepfakes -- video and audio -- are popping up in the news frequently. The nonprofit Consumer Reports reviewed six voice cloning apps and reports that four of those apps have no significant guardrails preventing users from cloning someones voice without their consent.Executives are often the public faces and voices of their companies; audio and video of CEOs, CIOs, and other C-suite members are readily available online. How concerned should CIOs and other enterprise tech leaders be about voice cloning and other deepfakes?A Lack of GuardrailsElevenLabs, Lovo, PlayHT, and Speechify -- four of the apps Consumer Reviews evaluated -- ask users to check a box confirming that they have the legal right to go ahead with their voice cloning capabilities. Descript and Resemble AI take consent a step further by asking users to read and record a consent statement, according to Consumer Reports.Related:Barriers to prevent misuse of these apps are quite low. Even for the apps that require users to read a statement could potentially be manipulated by audio created by a non-consensual voice clone on another platform, the Consumer Reports review notes.Not only can users employ many readily available apps to clone someones voice without their consent, they dont need technical skills to do so.No CS background, no masters degree, no need to program, literally go on to your app store on your phone or to Google and type in voice clone or deepfake face generator, and there's thousands of tools for fraudsters to cause harm, says Ben Colman, co-founder and CEO of deepfake detection company Reality Defender.Colman also notes that compute costs have dramatically dropped within the past few months. A year ago you needed cloud compute. Now, you can do it on a commodity laptop or phone, he adds.The issue of AI regulation is still very much up in the air. Could there be more guardrails for these kinds of apps in the future? Colman is confident that there will be. He gave testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on the dangers of election deepfakes.Related:The challenges and risks created by generative AI are a truly bipartisan concern, Colman tells InformationWeek. We're very optimistic about near-term guardrails.The Risks of Voice CloningWhile more guardrails may be forthcoming, whether via regulation or another impetus, enterprise leaders have to contend with the risks of voice cloning and other deepfakes today.The burden to entry is so low right now that AI voices could essentially bypass outdated authentication systems, and that's going to leave you with multiple risks whether there's data breaches, reputational concerns, financial fraud, says Justice Erolin, CTO of BairesDev, a software outsourcing company. And because there's no industry safeguards, it leaves most companies at risk.Safeguarding Against FraudThe obvious frontline defense to defend against voice cloning would be to limit sharing personal data, like your voice print. The harder it is to find audio featuring your voice, the harder it is to clone it. They should not share either personal data or voice or face, but it's challenging for CEOs. For example, I'm on YouTube. I'm on the news. It's just a cost of doing business, says Colman.Related:CIOs must operate in the realities of digital world, knowing that enterprises leaders are going to have publicly available audio that scammers can attempt to voice clone and use for nefarious ends.AI voice cloning is not a futuristic risk. It's a risk that's here today. I would treat it like any other cyber threat: with robust authentication, says Erolin.Given the risks of voice cloning, audio alone for authentication is risky. Adopting multifactor authentication can mitigate that risk. Enabling passwords, pins, or biometrics along with audio can help ensure you are speaking to the person you think you are, not someone who has cloned their voice or likeness.The Outlook for DetectionDetection is an essential tool in the fight against voice cloning. Colman likens the development of deepfake detection tools to the development of antivirus scanning, which is done locally, in real time on devices.I'd say deepfake detection [has] the exact same growth story, Colman explains. Last year, it was pick files you want to scan, and this year, it's pick a certain location, scan everything. And we're expecting within the next year, we will move completely on-device.Detection tools could be integrated onto devices, like phones and computers, and into video conferencing platforms to detect when audio and video have been generated or manipulated by AI. Reality Defender is working on pilots of its tool with banks, for example, initially integrating with call centers and interactive voice response (IVR) technology.I think we're going to look back on this period in a few years, just like antivirus, and say, Can you imagine a world where we didn't check for generative AI? says Colman.Like any other cybersecurity concern, there will be a tug of war between escalating deepfake capabilities in the hands of threat actors and detection capabilities in the hands of defenders. CIOs and other security leaders will be challenged to implement safeguards and evaluate those capabilities against those of fraudsters.

What if the director ofTop Gun: Maverick took all ofthe incredible photography in that movie and applied that same approach to a racing movie? To me, thats a pretty compelling sales pitch no matter what else the movie is about or who else is involved.So Im already intrigued by F1, a new racing film fromTop Gun: Maverickdirector Joseph Kosinski (andTop Gun: Maverick cinematographer Claudio Miranda). Brad Pitt stars in a storyline that contains plenty of echoes ofMaverick, too; in the film hes an aging hotshot driver (a maverick, one might say) who agrees toteachan upstart racing prodigy (Damson Idris) with a lot of promise, little experience, and too much attitude. Can they work together and become a cohesive team?Honestly, who cares, so long as the racing footage looks as cool as theF1trailer suggests it will? You canwatch the full ad below:READ MORE: The Worst Action Movies Ever MadeHere is the films official synopsis:Dubbed the greatest that never was, Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, hes a nomadic racer-for-hire when hes approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. Hell drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonnys past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competitionand the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.F1is scheduled to open in theaters on June 27. The movie will be screened in IMAX and, again, if this is anything likeTop Gun: Maverick, that is going to be the ideal way to see this thing.Get our free mobile appRemakes That Were Drastically Different From the OriginalAlthough technically remakes, these movies took a lot of liberties with their source material.Filed Under: Brad Pitt, F1, Joseph KosinskiCategories: Movie News, Trailers

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html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"S9 Architecture approaches projects not just as buildings and spaces, but as opportunities to enhance neighborhoods and communities. Their work at Neuhoff is a prime example of putting this philosophy into practice. Once a meat-packing complex in Nashvilles historic Germantown district, Neuhoff is now poised to become an exciting new neighborhood, contributing to the areas ongoing resurgence. The architects began by taking a holistic approach, carefully analyzing the factors that shaped Neuhoffs history before embarking on the design process.Examining the economic, environmental, and contextual elements, they were able to tailor spaces that meet both the clients requirements and their end user's pragmatic and aesthetic needs. S9 Architecture, one of three architectural firms including HKS (specializing in the new building scope) and Smith Gee (specializing in adaptive reuse scope), has defined a network of spaces articulated through the existing buildings. Then, selective demolition and stabilization of the existing network of buildings allowed for the new office buildings and an industrial village to be established. Articulated as stacked office masses and an assembly of buildings defining the residential program of the project, Neuhoff boasts a 1.3-million-square-foot project that houses a mix of office, cultural spaces, residential units, and retail/dining establishments. The project features a connective network of pedestrian pathways, courtyards, public roof terraces, and cantilevered catwalks that create a series of experiences for visitors to the new neighborhood.The renovated slaughterhouse stands as the focal point of the project, with a porous ground floor that leads to a stunning river bluff overlook. This transformation creates a striking contrast between the old and the new, blending public and private spaces, as well as interior and exterior elements. The buildings structure and architectural features have not only been preserved but are also showcased as historical artifacts. The projects understated restoration allows visitors to connect with the early history of the buildings while also experiencing the raw, once-abandoned spaces with their ruin-like character. Surrounding the historic meat-packing complex, new buildings form a modern industrial village that prioritizes pedestrian-friendly environments, with shared streets and structured parking placed on the sites periphery.With Neuhoffs re-introduction to Nashvilles urban fabric, the waterfront of this neighborhood can now be described as authentic, additive, and transformative, while also fitting into the local urban context. Neuhoff is not only a testament to the architects carefully calculated and executed design but also to their ability to build a vibrant urban neighborhood where people want to work and live.Project factsClient:New City PropertiesArchitect:S9 ArchitectureArea:1300000 ft (120773 m2)Location: NashvilleDevelopers: New City PropertiesMEP: I.C. Thomasson AssociatesStructural Engineer: Uzun + CaseLandscape Engineer: Future Green StudioSustainability & Lighting: Atelier Ten, USA LLCCivil Engineer: Kimley Horn AssociatesCompletion year:2025Top image Seth Parker, courtesy - S9 ArchitectureAll images Seth ParkerDiagram Drawing S9 Architecture> viaS9 Architecture

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March 12, 20254 min readFor Quantum Computing, Pressing the Advantage Is a Risky PropositionD-Waves fresh claim that it has achieved quantum advantage has sparked criticism of the companyand of the scientific process itselfBy Lee Billings edited by Dean Visser Alengo/Getty ImagesD-Wave, a British Columbiabased technology firm, made a scientific and stock-market splash on Wednesday with its declaration of a breakthrough in quantum computing. But for some experts, the companys claims are landing with a thud.What Did D-Wave Do?In a paper published in Science, an international team of more than 60 people led by D-Wave scientist Andrew King reported a demonstration of quantum advantage, which occurs when a quantum computer solves a problem that would be nigh impossible for a classical computer to handle. Quantum computers derive their number-crunching power from quantum bits, or qubits. Unlike the regular binary bits of classical computers, which use 1s and 0s, qubits can use values of 0, 1 and any increment in between. Classical computers handle calculations like an assembly line, bit by bit. Quantum computers can use carefully orchestrated arrays of qubits to simultaneously consider all possible values, exponentially increasing the speed and breadth of calculations.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.Jen ChristiansenUsing the companys qubit-packed Advantage2 quantum processor, the D-Wave team accurately simulated how certain physical transitions occur within magnetic materialsa key consideration in manufacturing smartphones and other advanced electronic devices. According to a company press release, the feat shows that the Advantage2 chip performs magnetic materials simulation in minutes that would take nearly one million years and more than the worlds annual electricity consumption to solve using a classical supercomputer.What Happened Next?D-Waves stock price increased by 10 percent in subsequent same-day trading, and the announcement led to strong stock-price gains for several other quantum-computing companies such as Quantum Computing, IonQ, Arqit Quantum and Rigetti Computing. Such upticks are part of an ongoing surge in quantum stocks, with D-Waves stock price almost tripling over the past year and Rigetti Computing and Quantum Computing seeing share values more than quadruple in that time.Is It Legit?Behind these multibillion-dollar market movements lies another, more troubling trend. Loud declarations of various types of quantum advantage arent new: Google notably made the first such claim in 2019, and IBM made another in 2023, for example. But these announcements and others were ultimately refuted by outside researchers who used clever classical computing techniques to achieve similar performance. In D-Waves case, some of the refutations came even before the Science papers publication, as other teams responded to a preliminary report of the work that appeared on the preprint server arXiv.org in March 2024. One preprint study, submitted to arXiv.org on March 7, demonstrated similar calculations using just two hours of processing time on an ordinary laptop. A second preprint study from a different team, submitted on March 11, showed how a calculation that D-Waves paper purported would require centuries of supercomputing time could be accomplished in just a few days with far less computational resources.In response, D-Waves King told New Scientist that while such classical feats are a huge advance, they were too rushed and incomplete to refute the companys claims of quantum advantage. They didnt do all the problems that we did, he said. They didnt do all the sizes we did, they didnt do all the observables we did, and they didnt do all the simulation tests we did.Why This MattersAchieving a genuine and practical quantum advantage has enormous implications, from designing better pharmaceuticals and electronics to overturning the encryption schemes upon which national defense and the global financial system depend. Its something so disruptive that it could confer almost incalculable wealth and power to whoever does it firstso naturally the competition is fierce.Critics say, however, that this high-stakes struggle is leading to improprieties in the scientific process and an uneven playing field in the peer-reviewed literature. Simply put, even though the science itself may be sound, the market-driven temptation to overhype results is almost irresistiblewith potentially disastrous results for the health of the field if or when confusing disputes over claims cause financial bubbles from qubit-enamored investors to finally pop. This model of using high-profile publications to broadcast scientific work done within a private quantum company is becoming more and more problematic, says Giuseppe Carleo, a computational physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), who co-authored the March 11 preprint that challenged D-Waves results with his EPFL student Linda Mauron.The Cycle of Quantum HypeCarleo says that its been a general impression in the quantum-computing community that some major journals encourage bombastic claims from prominent corporate-backed research groups by offering them a friendlier and faster peer-review process. Most media outlets then vigorously cover these supposed breakthroughs but often dedicate slim-to-no coverage to their subsequent invalidation. This is possibly even more problematic because it fuels quantum hype, he says. These journals do not give the same visibility to the scientific voices who are in disagreement with this way of doing science. Of the multiple recent refutations of quantum advantage claims, Carleo adds, none have landed a publication in Nature or a journal of similar stature.... And it will also be the case this time with the D-Wave experiment. (Nature and Scientific American are both part of Springer Nature.)Even so, Carleo says, theres nothing wrong with the results from D-Wave, Google, IBM and others, all of which represent potentially good advances in computational physics. Rather the problem is the clamor to prematurely declare quantum advantage. Claims of beating all classical methods are very hard to justify scientifically, he says, because its humanly impossible to run all state-of-the-art classical methods on a given problem to show theyre truly inadequate compared to some quantum method.Can the cycle of quantum hype be broken? Doing so will take the combined efforts and ethics of scientists, publishers, journalists and investorsand thats a problem that may be even harder than wrangling qubits.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 gets mod support, a barber shop, and "over a thousand" fixes and improvementsIn new 1.2 update.Image credit: Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver News by Matt Wales News Reporter Published on March 13, 2025 Following a hugely successful launch that saw over 1m people snapping up Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 in just 24 hours, developer Warhorse Studios continues to plug away at its post-release roadmap. And that brings us to today, and the release of the medieval action-RPG's 1.2 update, adding mod support, a barber shop, and "over a thousand" fixes and improvements.According to Warhorse, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's 1.2 update features "a host of fixes, improvements, and rebalancing tweaks" designed to ensure "a smoother, more immersive medieval experience". These include combat refinements, enhanced NPC behaviour, more polished animations, and performance optimisations. The update also improves the physics of your parsnip, which (probably) isn't a euphemism.The full list of changes is long enough that it's probably safer to link to Warhorse's patch notes rather than risk breaking this page. But the flagship additions include Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's aforementioned barber shops and PC-only mod support. Starting with the former, those looking for a natty follicular makeover will be wanting to visit Zhelejov and Kuttenberg. Here, they can change protagonist Henry's hairstyle or pick from a variety of facial hair options, including designer stubble, a full beard, or simply clean-shaven. Regardless, a fresh trim isn't just for aesthetics - it'll temporarily buff Henry's charisma.Here's Eurogamer's Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review.Watch on YouTubeAs for mod support, it's described as a new suite of tools offering greater accessibility and direct Steam Workshop integration. "Whether you want to tweak mechanics, expand the world, or forge entirely new adventures, the tools are in your hands," writes Warhorse. "Get ready to create, customise, and bring your own vision to life in the medieval world."Today's 1.2 update - which is available for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC - marks the first in a series of free post-launch additions for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, previously revealed to include horse racing and a new Hardcode Mode promising a "greater challenge". That's alongside three paid story expansions - Brushes with Death, Legacy of the Forge, and Mysteria Ecclesia - due this summer, autumn, and winter respectively."It is a hard and maddening slog at times," Eurogamer's Katharine Castle wrote of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 in her three star review, "but one that still has its moments where it surprises and quietly delights. Like the original, this isn't an RPG designed to make you feel good - you continue to be little more than a passenger in this historical tapestry, following along behind the horse tails of Henry's betters, and clearing up the mess they leave behind. Some will revel in that work, but I for one won't be chomping at the bit for another sequel any time soon."

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Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube798kWe're almost three months in, and we haven't had a single Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game lined up for Switch in 2025 which, after the trio we got last year, feels like a long time. One that we'd expect to see make its way over at some point, however, is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, an upcoming turn-based title from developer Strange Scaffold (Sunshine Shuffle, An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs) which will be skating onto PC on 22nd May.You read that right, Tactical Takedown sees the Turtles go turn-based. Playing against the usual heroes in a half-shell hack-and-slash gameplay, Strange Scaffold's upcoming release is more about strategy than slashing. In it, you'll help Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey on a mission to take down the Foot Clan (what are the odds?), with a campaign for each hero.The action is mainly grid-based, but the Turtles have their own unique ways of navigating the playing field Raph can deal damage to groups of foes, Donnie can rain down fury with drones, you get the picture and it's all wrapped up in a table-top-esque visual style that's vaguely reminiscent of the comics.Look, perhaps we're just being hopeful, but the relatively straightforward visuals and tactical gameplay make us think that this one would be right at home on Switch. The console has proved itself a powerhouse for turn-based titles in the past, and it's no stranger to a TMNT title or two, either.Have a look at the following screens from the Tactical Takedown Steam page and tell us that you don't see some Switch potential:Images: Strange ScaffoldWho knows, perhaps Strange Scaffold has a Switch 2 plan up its sleeve, or maybe a future port is already in the works? Either way, it can only be a matter of time before 2025 brings us its first TMNT game on the Nintendo hybrid, and this one looks ripe with potential to take that accolade. Every TMNT game on Nintendo consoles, ranked by youWould you like to see TMNT: Tactical Takedown on Switch? Let us know in the comments.[source youtube.com]Share:41 Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related ArticlesTony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 Has Been Butchered For The Switch RemakePop shuvit up your...New 18+ LEGO Mario Kart Set Is A Better Build Than We ExpectedPole position on our wishlistsCapcom Provides Update On Game Changes In 'Fighting Collection 2'Here's what you can expectStar Fox Veteran's New Game Is Channelling Serious Lylat EnergyEvery McCloud has a silver liningWas That Pokmon Legends: Z-A Footage Running On Switch 2? Digital Foundry Weighs InPrepare for a pretty obvious answer