Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Fishpig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of its distribution server that allowed criminals to surreptitiously backdoor customer systems. The unknown threat actors used their control of FishPig’s...
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Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions
Enlarge / A series of four example color palettes extracted from short written prompts by Matt DesLauriers. (credit: Matt DesLauriers) A London-based artist named Matt DesLauriers has developed a tool to generate color palettes from any text prompt, allowing someone to type in “beautiful sunset” and get a series of colors that matches a typical...
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(BPRW) Billionaire Philanthropist Robert F. Smith to Keynote HP’s HBCU Tech Conference
(Black PR Wire) PALO ALTO, Calif. – HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced its second annual virtual technology conference for historically black colleges and universities with billionaire philanthropist Robert F. Smith as this year’s featured speaker.
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(BPRW) Howard University Alums Daja E. Henry and Katherine Gilyard Awarded Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship from The 19th News
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON – Two recent alumna from Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications, Daja E. Henry and Katherine Gilyard, are among the recipients of The 19th News’ Frances
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Meta spins off PyTorch Foundation to make AI framework vendor neutral
Enlarge / The PyTorch logo on a fancy gradient. (credit: PyTorch Foundation) Meta AI announced today that the governance of PyTorch, a popular open source deep learning framework, has moved to an independent organization called the PyTorch Foundation. It will operate as part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation, and its governing board includes representatives from...
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Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely
Enlarge / An assortment of robot portraits generated by Stable Diffusion as found on the Lexica search engine. (credit: Lexica) Confronted with an overwhelming amount of artificial-intelligence-generated artwork flooding in, some online art communities have taken dramatic steps to ban or curb its presence on their sites, including Newgrounds, Inkblot Art, and Fur Affinity, according...
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(BPRW) Sony Interactive Entertainment Pledges $2 Million to new UNCF Scholarship
(Black PR Wire) Recently, UNCF and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced a new $2 million scholarship program aimed at supporting Black students attending historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs) interested in gaming development as a c
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New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers this week unveiled a new strain of Linux malware that’s notable for its stealth and sophistication in infecting both traditional servers and smaller Internet-of-things devices. Dubbed Shikitega by the AT&T Alien Labs researchers who discovered it, the malware is delivered through a multistage infection chain using polymorphic encoding. It also...
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Nvidia’s flagship AI chip reportedly 4.5x faster than the previous champ
Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: Nvidia) Nvidia announced yesterday that its upcoming H100 “Hopper” Tensor Core GPU set new performance records during its debut in the industry-standard MLPerf benchmarks, delivering results up to 4.5 times faster than the A100, which is currently Nvidia’s fastest production AI chip....
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Runway teases AI-powered text-to-video editing using written prompts
Enlarge / A still from Runway’s “Text to Video” teaser promo suggesting image-generation capabilities. (credit: Runway) In a tweet posted this morning, artificial intelligence company Runway teased a new feature of its AI-powered web-based video editor that can edit video from written descriptions, often called “prompts.” A promotional video appears to show very early steps...