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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

News Reporter

News Reporter

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer, and part of The Verge UK-based team. While passionate about the future of technology, she originally trained as a prosthetics makeup and wig-making technician, fuelled by a love of animatronics and practical movie effects. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews across computing, PC gaming and streaming. Additional bylines can be found at GamesRadar, PCGamer, Creative Bloq and Space.com.

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Sora is showing us how broken deepfake detection is

OpenAI’s video generator uses a system that’s supposed to help online platforms tag deepfakes — so why aren’t we seeing them?

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Europe is trying to compete with SpaceX again.

Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales are planning to pool their space services, systems manufacturing, and satellite activities into a new company that “could be operational in 2027.” Eutelsat’s OneWeb network is notably absent from this team-up, and other attempts to make a European SpaceX and Starlink rival have yet to take off.

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iOS and Android face more UK regulation.

After a ten-month investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority has designated Apple and Google’s mobile platforms with “strategic market status,” describing them as having “substantial, entrenched market power.” The companies now face extra anti-competition regulations in the UK, following a similar ruling for Google Search.

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