Google Image Search Will Now Show a Photo’s History. Can It Spot Fakes?
Google has stressed that the metadata field in “About this image” is not going to be a surefire way to see the origins, or provenance, of an image. It’s mostly...
How to Use ChatGPT’s ‘Browse With Bing’ Tool—Plus 6 Starter Prompts
Link to ChatGPT’s response. Focus on a Single Source Browsing the entire web can be daunting, so try giving ChatGPT parameters to search within. For example, if you want to...
Amazon’s AI-Powered Van Inspections Give It a Powerful New Data Feed
Amazon is splashing out on new vehicle inspectors to watch for damage or wear to its vast fleet of delivery vans—and they’re not human. The retailer is installing camera-studded inspection...
Alphabet shares tank as Google cloud revenue weakens
Google parent Alphabet’s cloud business crawled to its slowest in at least 11 quarters, sending the company’s stock down 5.7% after hours, even as sales at rival Microsoft’s cloud unit boomed. The drop...
The AI-Generated Child Abuse Nightmare Is Here
A horrific new era of ultrarealistic, AI-generated, child sexual abuse images is now underway, experts warn. Offenders are using downloadable open source generative AI models, which can produce images, to...
Oregon State University had bomb threat with food delivery robots
Oregon State University activated a bomb threat warning Tuesday — alerting its students the campus’ food delivery robots could be carrying an explosive. “Do not open robots. Avoid all robots...
Facebook, Instagram fuel youth mental health crisis with addictive apps: lawsuit
Meta was slapped with a bombshell lawsuit by nearly three dozen states on Tuesday alleging the Facebook and Instagram parent has fueled a youth mental health crisis by exploiting the addictive...
Apple to make tools and parts available to fix iPhones, computers
Mac computer and iPhone maker Apple on Tuesday will announce plans to make parts, tools, and documentation needed to repair its products available to independent repair shops and consumers nationwide, at fair...
Apple expected to unveil new Macs at special event dubbed ‘Scary Fast’
IPhone maker Apple said Tuesday it will hold a special event named “Scary Fast” on Oct 30. Media reports have said the company may release new Mac devices with a faster M3...
This new tool could give artists an edge over AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. The artist-led backlash against AI is...
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave resigns after Israel ‘war crimes’ remarks
The boss of one of the world’s most prominent tech conferences has resigned after his remarks accusing Israel of committing “war crimes” in Gaza prompted a mass exodus of participants....
Elon Musk says he’ll give Wikipedia $1B to change name to ‘D–kipedia’
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, said he would fork over $1 billion of his fortune to Wikipedia if the donation-based online encyclopedia changed its name to “D–kipedia.” The X...
Parents say baby monitor was hacked, someone talked to child
An Australian dad was ready to fight an intruder in his 1-year-old daughter’s room — but when he entered, no one was there. Now, rapper J-Milla and his partner, Poppy...
The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest
The index is a good predictor of whether a company will raise a round, says Konstantin Vinogradov, a general partner at Runa. Around a third of all the companies listed...
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it...
