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D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event is just days away, and fans from all over the world are preparing for a weekend filled with movie and theme park announcements, panels and shows, and immersive experiences.

A new Twitch setting gives creators more control, but the company’s default choice has sparked a sharp backlash from its own community.

You probably remember why. The game that was supposed to contain eighteen quintillion planets shipped without the multiplayer Sean Murray had implied on talk shows, without most of the creature variety from the trailers, and without much to actually do once the novelty of the first three landings wore off. The internet turned it into…

The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default.

Twitch has introduced an opt-out setting that lets streamers stop their channel content from being used to train Amazon’s generative AI models.

Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham have been together for 40 years but actually seeing them out together has become a rarity. That changed over the weekend when Graham joined Oprah in Chicago for a reunion of The Oprah Winfrey Show staff, marking one of the longtime couple’s few public appearances together in recent years.

Inspired by real-life martial artists, TaoLu is a fun spin on the fitness genre that gives players a virtual practice dummy on which to unleash their moves.

There’s now an opt-out toggle for something that should have been opt-in to begin with.

If you long for the welcoming embrace of high-school English class as an adult, the Shakespeare Festival Reads book club may be for you. This collab between Left Bank Books and St. Louis Shakespeare Festival guides readers through monthly picks from The Bard and titles that help expand your knowledge of his characters and settings. 

Twitch quietly announced that it is or intends to use videos livestreamed on its platform to train Amazon’s generative AI models on Wednesday. There have been rumors about this in recent weeks, but the official confirmation comes by way of the Twitch Support X account informing streamers they can opt out of AI training. Twitch…