Month: August 2024
Google DeepMind staff call for end to military contracts
In May 2024, around 200 employees at Google DeepMind (representing roughly 5 percent of the division) signed a letter urging the company to end its contracts with military organizations, expressing concerns that its AI technology was being used for warfare, Time magazine reported. The letter states that employee concerns aren’t…
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Turn your napkin doodles into high art with this AI image generator
AI image generators are having a moment right now with a recent rush of upgrades to many of the options out there. Ideogram is the latest synthetic image developer to join the trend this week with the launch of Ideogram 2.0. The new iteration of the image generator promises to…
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Trump is launching a cryptocurrency platform, and we have no idea what it does
Former President Donald Trump is launching a cryptocurrency platform, he announced on Thursday in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s post included few other details, but he and his sons have suggested it will target unbanked and underserved communities. “For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the…
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Microsoft patches critical security bug in Copilot Studio that could have leaked private data
Microsoft Copilot Studio had a security issues which could have allowed threat actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from vulnerable endpoints, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researcher Evan Grant from Tenable, who found and reported on the vulnerability, which is described as an information disclosure flaw stemming from a server-side request forgery…
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“Something has gone seriously wrong” — Dual-boot Windows and Linux systems get worrying warning following Microsoft update
Linux users running dual-boot systems with Windows have reported their devices suddenly failed to boot, displaying a worrying “Something went seriously wrong” message. It has since been confirmed that a dodgy security update from Microsoft was to blame for the problem, which was designed to address CVE-2022-2601 as part of…
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Instead of carrying multiple camera lenses, this one lets you swap optics
The simpler design of prime lenses in general — which offer no zoom capabilities — can deliver several advantages, including sharper images and a shallower depth of field. The tradeoff is that photographers have to move closer or further away when framing subjects or swap between several prime lenses with…
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