Month: December 2022
OpenAI releases Point-E, which is like DALL-E but for 3D modeling
OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence startup behind popular DALL-E text-to-image generator, announced on Tuesday the release of its newest picture-making machine POINT-E, which can produce 3D point clouds directly from text prompts. Whereas existing systems like Google's DreamFusion typically require multiple hours — and GPUs — to generate their…
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Spotify explores rebranding its main podcast creation tool
A very happy holidays to you all! The news is slow, and the food is fried. I made the best latkes of my life (of anyone’s life?) this weekend and also ate four Peter Pan jelly donuts in the span of 24 hours. It really is the most wonderful time…
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There’s another malicious PyPl package – this one stealing data from developers
Audio player loading… Criminals have been found impersonating a well-known cybersecurity firm in an attempt to steal data from software developers, researchers have found. Researchers from ReversingLabs recently discovered a malicious Python (opens in new tab) package on PyPI called “SentinelOne”. Named after a known cybersecurity company from the United…
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This critical Windows security flaw could be as serious as WannaCry, experts claim
Audio player loading… A vulnerability more serious than EternalBlue was sitting in Windows for some time, before being finally discovered and patched, experts have revealed. For those with shorter memory, EternalBlue was an NSA-built zero-day for Windows which gave birth to WannaCry, possibly the most devastating global ransomware threat to…
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Google’s data center water usage is revealed – and it’s a lot
Audio player loading… Google used over four billion gallons of water in its data centers around the world in 2021, with 3.3 billion of those being in the US and 971 million the rest of the world, new figures have revealed. The figures came to light after media outlet The…
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Lionel Messi beats an egg on Instagram
In addition to a World Cup and a full set of other soccer (aka football) awards, Lionel Messi has taken another crown: the person with the most-liked post on Instagram. The pictures he posted after the Argentine team won the 2022 men’s World Cup have racked up almost 64 million…
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