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Who Gets the Last Word on Steve Jobs? He Might.
When Laurene Powell Jobs unveiled a website dedicated to the story of her late husband, historians wondered if it could change how influential people burnish their legacies.
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Twitch’s Relationship With Its Streamers Shows Its Cracks
The service recently said it was going to take a bigger cut of the money it shared with streamers. At an annual gathering in San Diego, they vented about the decision.
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A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze
A celebration for Stability AI, the start-up behind the controversial Stable Diffusion image generator, represents the arrival of a new A.I. boom.
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Twitter Tries Calming Employees as Deal With Elon Musk Looms
With Mr. Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter set to close no later than Oct. 28, the company is trying to reassure workers about their employment and compensation.
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A.I.-Generated Art Is Already Transforming Creative Work
Only a few months old, apps like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are changing how filmmakers, interior designers and other creative professionals do their jobs.
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Instacart Is Said to Pull Plans to Go Public This Year
The food delivery company had been moving toward a public offering, but the window for such deals is shutting amid market turmoil.
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TikTok failed to stop most misleading political ads in a test run by researchers.
YouTube and Facebook fared better in the experiment.
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VMware bug with 9.8 severity rating exploited to install witch’s brew of malware
(credit: Pixabay) Hackers have been exploiting a now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access in campaigns to install various ransomware and cryptocurrency miners, a researcher at security firm Fortinet said on Thursday. CVE-2022-22954 is a remote code execution vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access that carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible...
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AI tool colorizes black-and-white photos automatically
Enlarge / Palette.fm does AI photo colorization using text prompts for refinement. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) A Swedish machine learning researcher named Emil Wallner has released a free web tool called Palette.fm that automatically colorizes black-and-white photos using AI. After uploading a photo, users can choose a color filter or refine the colors...