Enlarge / An artwork created with OpenAI’s DALL-E image generator. (credit: OpenAI) If you’ve been itching to try OpenAI’s image synthesis tool but have been stymied by the lack of an invitation, now’s your chance. Today, OpenAI announced that it removed the waitlist for its DALL-E AI image generator service. That means anyone can sign...
Enlarge / Illustration of fiber-optic cables. (credit: Getty Images | Tetra Images) Google Fiber is touting a test that delivered 20Gbps download speeds to a house in Kansas City, calling it a milestone on the path to offering 100Gbps symmetrical Internet. The company said it will also offer new multi-gigabit tiers in the near future....
Enlarge (credit: matrix.org) Developers of the open source Matrix messenger protocol released an update on Wednesday to fix critical end-to-end encryption vulnerabilities that subvert the confidentiality and authentication guarantees that have been key to the platform’s meteoric rise. Matrix is a sprawling ecosystem of open source and proprietary chat and collaboration clients and servers that...
(Black PR Wire) ORLANDO, FL — Blacks In Technology, LLC and the Blacks In Technology Foundation (BIT) hosts (BITCon2022) their 4th annual conference for Black IT professionals, entrepreneurs, gamers, and afro-futurists. Hundreds will descend on
The parent of Facebook and Instagram said that it had taken down what was the first targeted Chinese campaign to interfere in U.S. politics and that the effort was limited.
China has cracked down on many tech companies, but has allowed dating apps that provide social connections to flourish.
Enlarge / These jagged, colorful blocks are exactly what the concept of image compression looks like. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG or WebP at high compression ratios,...
Enlarge (credit: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/blinkee-city-rental-scooter-is-seen-in-warsaw-poland-on-news-photo/1031626648) Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments around the world, creating regional disparities in access to mobile apps at a time when many economies are becoming increasingly dependent on them. The mobile phone giants have removed over 200 Chinese apps, including widely...
A draft agreement with the Biden administration to keep the Chinese-owned video app operating in the United States is under review. That could mean more wrangling.
British regulators have sent a warning notice to the company, the first major case under new rules in Britain that protect minors online.