Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps, and other tools aimed at increasing privacy. Avast’s apps would “block annoying tracking cookies that collect data on your browsing activities,” and prevent web services from “tracking your online activity.” Deep in its...
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Tyler Perry puts $800 million studio expansion on hold because of OpenAI’s Sora
Enlarge / Tyler Perry in 2022. (credit: Getty Images) In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, filmmaker Tyler Perry spoke about his concerns related to the impact of AI video synthesis on entertainment industry jobs. In particular, he revealed that he has suspended a planned $800 million expansion of his production studio after...
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Reddit Files to Go Public, in First Social Media I.P.O. in Years
The message board site, founded in 2005, detailed its financial performance in a filing. It is the last of an early generation of social media companies to aim for a public offering.
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Google Chatbot’s A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms
The company has suspended Gemini’s ability to generate human images while it vowed to fix the historical inaccuracy.
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Instagram’s Uneasy Rise as a News Site
In this year’s presidential election, more people are turning to Instagram for news, even as the platform tries de-emphasizing “political content.”
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AT&T Says Service Is Restored After Widespread Cellular Outage
White House officials said the incident was under investigation, but it did not appear to be a cyberattack. Verizon and T-Mobile said their networks were operating normally.
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Five Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Child Influencers
Mothers are running Instagram accounts for underage girls aspiring to stardom. Many encounter a dark underworld dominated by men, including pedophiles.
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Ransomware associated with LockBit still spreading 2 days after server takedown
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two days after an international team of authorities struck a major blow at LockBit, one of the Internet’s most prolific ransomware syndicates, researchers have detected a new round of attacks that are installing malware associated with the group. The attacks, detected in the past 24 hours, are exploiting two critical vulnerabilities...
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Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
Enlarge / Stable Diffusion 3 generation with the prompt: studio photograph closeup of a chameleon over a black background. (credit: Stability AI) On Thursday, Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion 3, an open-weights next-generation image-synthesis model. It follows its predecessors by reportedly generating detailed, multi-subject images with improved quality and accuracy in text generation. The brief...
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Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images
Enlarge / Generations from Gemini AI from the prompt, “Paint me a historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king.” (credit: @stratejake / X) On Thursday morning, Google announced it was pausing its Gemini AI image-synthesis feature in response to criticism that the tool was inserting diversity into its images in a historically inaccurate way,...