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Signal, the Encrypted Messaging App, Appoints a President

In the newly created role, Meredith Whittaker will guide policy and strategy for the messaging app and work to expand its business.

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Apple, the Ad Critic, Now Embraces Ads

Apple has long supported privacy and shunned those intrusive ads. What happens when it sells more ads, too?

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A ‘Virtual Rapper’ Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain.

Young people are increasingly at ease consuming culture via digital avatars or made with artificial intelligence. Should the same moral guidelines and laws apply to those works?

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Chrome patches high-severity 0-day, its 6th this year

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Google engineers have issued an emergency update for the Chrome browser to fix a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited with code that’s already available in the wild. The vulnerability, which Google disclosed on Friday, is the result of “insufficient data validation in Mojo,” a Chrome component for...

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With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again

Enlarge / Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a cowboy? Stable Diffusion does. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) AI image generation is here in a big way. A newly released open source image synthesis model called Stable Diffusion allows anyone with a PC and a decent GPU to conjure up almost any visual...

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