Month: March 2024
Florida teens arrested for creating ‘deepfake’ AI nude images of classmates
Two Florida middle schoolers were arrested in December and charged with third-degree felonies for allegedly creating deepfake nudes of their classmates. A report by Wired cites police reports saying two boys, aged 13 and 14, are accused of using an unnamed “artificial intelligence application” to generate the explicit images of other students “between the ages…
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The TikTok ban just got closer – here’s what the new US law means and what happens next
TikTok now faces the very real threat of being banned in the US unless the app is sold by its owner ByteDance, after President Biden signed a new bill into law that has set the clock ticking. The bill, which gives ByteDance nine months to divest itself of the app…
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‘Awesome Branding Move’: Intel recycles Altera brand for its PSG group — and it may well have been decided over a dinner in 2023
In an interesting branding move, Intel has renamed its Programmable Solutions Group “Altera,”, and reestablished it as an independent company. Intel’s acquisition of Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion was one of the tech industry’s largest deals at the time. Now, the newly independent Altera, led by CEO Sandra Rivera…
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Logitech’s best gaming mouse just got better
Logitech is rolling out a firmware update for its popular G Pro X Superlight 2 mouse this week that will enable 4kHz response rates. The higher polling rate is designed for high DPI / low in-game sensitivity players who play esports PC games, which is who Logitech markets its Superlight…
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How to find (and delete) your TikTok history
One of the more frustrating aspects of TikTok used to be the difficulty in finding a video that you really liked and wanted to see again but had accidentally swiped past or watched a day or two ago. Previously, there was a long, complex series of steps you had to…
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Warner Bros. is removing Adult Swim Games from console stores and Steam
Even Warner Bros. Discovery games are subject to the capriciousness of the executive suite. Several developers of games published under Adult Swim Games, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, have said that the company has reached out to inform them that their games will soon be removed from digital storefronts on PC and…
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