Month: February 2024
The Morning After: Why Google’s Gemini image generation feature overcorrected for diversity
After complaints that Google’s image generator built into its Gemini AI was (ugh) woke, Google explained why it may have overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company’s senior vice president for knowledge and information, said Google’s efforts to ensure a wide range of people generated in images “failed to account…
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It’s official: the next Game of Thrones Spin-off is coming in late 2025
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the next spin-off series from Game of Thrones, is coming and it may be in winter: according to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, the show is scheduled for a launch in late 2025 (via IGN). Zaslav didn’t commit to an actual launch date,…
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Lenovo’s Project Crystal Is a Concept Laptop With a Transparent Display
You can see clearly now through the Project Crystal. But what is it for? And is a transparent phone next? Source
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Ransomware is hitting the financial services industry harder than ever before
Ransomware is hitting the financial services industry harder than ever before, a new report from Netskope’s Threat Labs claims. The “Threat Labs Report — FINANCIAL SERVICES 2024” paper, published earlier this week, claims that the financial sector remains “one of the most attacked sectors by ransomware groups,” who mostly use…
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Unsurprisingly, LockBit ransomware crew has returned
Less than a week after the British police and its international partners took down LockBit infrastructure, the infamous threat actor is back and ready to resume its nefarious operations. According to a new BleepingComputer report, the ransomware-as-a-service operator propped up a new .onion address, which not only lists five new…
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The Microlino Lite is here to make urban SUVs look even dumber
Swiss company Micro — maker of the happy little Microlino electric bubble car — just unveiled a production version of its Microlino Lite at the Geneva Motor Show. With a 45km/h (28mph) top speed, it goes half as fast as the standard Microlino but can be driven by anyone with…
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