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Why That Whitney Houston Drum Beat Is So Addictive, Yet Hard to Match

By: Neil Vigdor —
People online have been trying to nail the drumbeat before the final chorus of “I Will Always Love You.” It’s harder than it looks.

“I think it’s fun,” he said of the interest in the song’s drumbeat. “It sort of made me rethink how long the pause is.”

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OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real

By: Tiffany Hsu， Stuart A. Thompson and Steven Lee Myers —
The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.

A frame of a video generated by the original iteration of Sora, an artificial intelligence tool from OpenAI.

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Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads

By: Steven Lee Myers —
A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies.
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The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional.

By: Zeynep Tufekci —
Critical thinking is not going to save us.

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How the N.B.A. and M.L.B. Shattered America’s Sports Culture

By: Joon Lee —
The major sports leagues are destroying one of our few remaining sources of shared community.
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On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing Children

By: Michael H. Keller —
Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.

Child safety advocates demonstrated at the Apple Store this month in New York’s Grand Central Terminal.

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1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized

By: Jon Pareles —
In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why.
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting: Detectives Scour Video Record of Suspect’s Movements

By: Andy Newman and Maria Cramer —
Cameras are everywhere in Manhattan and they helped lead investigators to a distinctive backpack in Central Park that could be a key piece of physical evidence.

Camera footage led the police to the physical evidence at the core of their investigation, including the backpack that officers found in Central Park Friday evening.

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Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia

By: Michael Crowley， Valerie Hopkins and Edward Wong —
A manufactured video fabricated comments by the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller.

The fabricated video of Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesman, had telltale clues of manipulation. The lip sync was off, and Mr. Miller’s shirt and tie changed color midway through.

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A.I. Fuels a New Era of Product Placement

By: Sapna Maheshwari —
Realistic-looking shampoo bottles and seltzer cans are popping up on videos from digital creators on TikTok and YouTube in a new form of old advertising.

A screenshot of a recent TikTok from the dancer Melissa Becraft which used A.I to digitally superimpose a poster for Bubly, the sparkling water brand owned by PepsiCo, onto the wall of her apartment.

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Wife of Gilgo Beach Suspect Gets a Documentary Deal

By: Corey Kilgannon —
Rex Heuermann is accused of killing three women. Where some saw depravity, others saw a chance to make a show.

Asa Ellerup, walking to a court appearance for her husband, has opened her life to Peacock’s cameras.

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Soccer Watchalongs Like Stretford Paddock Offer a Broadcast Alternative

By: Rory Smith —
Soccer fans are tuning out broadcasts in favor of watchalongs: streaming parties where you hear what you want to hear and see everything except the game.

Watchalongs like Stretford Paddock’s have become big business, with full-scale production crews and hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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