ByteDance Pledges Safeguards for Seedance 2.0 After Disney and Paramount Legal Threats Over IP Violations - Variety

Chinese tech giant ByteDance has committed to strengthening safeguards for its controversial AI video generation tool Seedance 2.0.

Golden Retriever Is Neighborhood’s ‘Beloved Pup’ in Adorable Video - DogTime

Watch this video of Louis the Golden Retriever getting all the love from his neighborhood fans through the front gate.

YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it - Android Authority

YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscipriton or watch ads.

Universe may end in a “big crunch,” new dark energy data suggests - ScienceDaily

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after reaching its maximum size in about 11 billion years, it could begi…

At least 8 killed as huge explosion rips through fireworks shop in China ahead of Lunar New Year - the-sun.com

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie grapple with fallout from parents’ Epstein scandals - CNN

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have been swept into the maelstrom that has engulfed their parents, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, forcing them to grapple with renewed scrutiny swirling around the British monarchy.