Month: July 2024
Kamala Harris hasn’t said a lot about tech policy, but here’s what we know
Vice President Kamala Harris is all but certain to become the Democratic presidential candidate. She was suddenly catapulted to frontrunner status for the Democratic presidential nomination after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed her for the position, and now key power-brokers in the party have publicly backed…
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Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop add AI features that do hours of design work in minutes
Adobe is rolling out a bunch of new AI features for Photoshop and Illustrator that aim to speed up the design process and offer more control and variety to users. Using Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models, the company suggests it will take a fraction of the time it currently takes…
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Scammers are flooding the internet with CrowdStrike typosquatting scams and fake repair manuals
Hackers are using the fallout from the recent CrowdStrike incident to target people looking for a fix with malware – and experts have warned some are quite creative in their campaigns, since on the surface it really seems as if they’re helping fix the problem. Crowdstrike says it observed a…
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Android defectors are flocking to Apple, but not thanks to the iPhone 15
The terrifying ferocity of the Android vs iPhone debate means you’d be forgiven for thinking that no one ever switches sides. But according to a new report, that’s far from the case – in fact, a surprisingly high percentage of new iPhone owners last month were people who have defected from…
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Everything leaving Hulu in August 2024
It seems like only yesterday we were welcoming a new long list of potential best Hulu shows and movies as well as saying goodbye to others – and now that it’s nearly August, Hulu is getting ready to do it all again, but it’s not axing as many as you’d…
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The Senate passed a bill cracking down on sexually explicit deepfakes
The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday letting victims of nonconsensual intimate images created by AI — or “deepfakes” — sue their creators for damages. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE) Act lets victims of sexually explicit deepfakes pursue civil remedies against those who produced or processed the…
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