Month: August 2023
Netflix’s most-watched movies list this week is hot garbage, watch these 4 films instead
This week’s Netflix top 10 movies list has a surprisingly low-rated entry at number one: Jackie Chan’s new action flick Hidden Strike. The film debuted on the best streaming service on July 28 but has been called a flop by critics – it has just a 15% Rotten Tomatoes score.…
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TikTok is seemingly making it easier to disclose if your content was generated by AI
TikTok appears to be working on a new way for creators to disclose if their posts contain AI-generated content. As shared by social media consultant Matt Navarra, a new “AI-generated content” toggle has appeared under the “more options” section before uploading a video. As part of the description for that…
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Google’s Arts & Culture app adds AI-generated poem postcards
Poem postcards live within Google’s Arts & Culture app and website, where you can choose from various types of poems to generate, including a sonnet, limerick, ode, elegy, haiku, and others. The AI will base the contents of the poem on the subject you type into the generator, like “ocean”…
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Where have all the fitness bands gone?
It all started with an innocent Vergecast hotline question. The gist was: what are some screenless wearables that offer health tracking in the vein of the Fitbit Flex but weren’t expensive like the $300 Oura Ring? Not a single good answer came to mind. For better or worse, the simple…
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Top VPN services can be tricked into leaking traffic outside your network
Two vulnerabilities found in popular business VPN solutions could allow hackers to divert traffic outside a VPN tunnel, among other things. A new research paper, recently published by a group of authors from different universities around the world, outlined two vulnerabilities affecting Cisco routers were mentioned – CVE-2023-36672, and CVE-2023-36673. …
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M3 MacBooks could be coming this year, after chip shortage turnaround
Apple may have turned around the fortunes of its upcoming M3 line of chips after reportedly securing an entire year’s worth of scarce 3nm silicon from TSMC. It seems that Apple managed to secure TSMC’s entire stock of 3nm chips for a full year, according to Wccftech, who reports that…
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