Month: January 2023
Instagram showed people too many videos last year, admits Adam Mosseri
We definitely have a number of photographers who have been upset. I want to be clear: though we are leaning into video, we still value photos. Photos will always be a part of Instagram. I think we were overfocused on video in 2022 and pushed ranking too far and basically…
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Humble Bundle’s Winter Sale kicks off today
Here’s your PSA to remind you that the Humble Bundle Winter Sale has started, knocking up to 90 percent off a variety of titles until February 7th. The sale features discounts on a plethora of AAA and eccentric indie games, but we’ve put together a short list of highlights that…
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“It’s Gross To Me”: The Trio Of Artists Suing AI Art Generators Speaks Out
The suit claims that Stable Diffusion was trained on billions of images scraped from the internet without consent, including images owned by this trio of artists. If products and services powered by generative AI products are allowed to operate, a press release by Savari says, “the foreseeable result is that…
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Light pollution is even worse than satellites show us
The brightness of the night sky has risen by an average of 10 percent each year, according to new research. That’s a significantly higher number than estimates made using satellite data — which put that figure at closer to a 2 percent increase annually. In other words, light pollution — which…
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Wi-Fi routers are being hit by a dangerous new Android malware with extra DNS hacks
Audio player loading… A new Android app has been found tricking unsuspecting users (even those with clean devices) into visiting malicious versions of popular websites, where they might end up giving away their login credentials, or even worse – money. The findings come courtesy of Kaspersky, which found a malicious…
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Nintendo reportedly projects Switch sales are going up in 2023
Nintendo is planning to increase production of the Switch for the upcoming fiscal year beginning in March, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The news arrives on the same weekend as the company’s first big release in 2023, Fire Emblem Engage, and ahead of the long-anticipated The Legend…
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