On Sunday, Procreate announced that it will not incorporate generative AI into its popular iPad illustration app. The decision comes in response to an ongoing backlash from some parts of the art community, which has raised concerns about the ethical implications and potential consequences of AI use in creative industries. …
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The Best Labor Day Mattress Deals
There are lots of reasons to be excited about Labor Day. (A long weekend! A last summer hurrah! Another chance to use the grill or hit the beach!) One of these many reasons is great sales, particularly for big-ticket items like mattresses. We test and review dozens of mattresses here …
Read More »Your Photos Aren’t Real
At a splashy media event this week at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google announced four new Pixel phones. But the most important stuff unveiled at the Made By Google event wasn’t the hardware itself, but rather all of the generative AI tools packed into the devices. Most notable …
Read More »Kamala Harris' Rally Crowds Aren't AI-Generated. Here's How You Can Tell
Donald Trump may have coined a new term in his latest false attack on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. In a pair of posts on Truth Social over the weekend, the former president said that Vice President Kamala Harris "A.I.'d" photos of a huge crowd that showed up to see her …
Read More »A Russian Chess Player Allegedly Poisoned Her Opponent With Mercury
Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent "novichok" when making assassination attempts against both defectors in the UK and internal political rivals like Alexei Navalny. But a new "first" in the long history of …
Read More »NASA Still Hasn't Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home
During a news conference on Wednesday, NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the agency about whether the Starliner spacecraft is really reliable enough to return two veteran astronauts—Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams—back to Earth from the International Space Station. The space agency also confirmed key elements …
Read More »Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup
There is no wilder time than the present to build a company around artificial intelligence. The server bills are astronomical, for one. Also, the market for talent is red hot, and you’ll end up paying through the nose for good people. Even if you do get funding, staff up, get …
Read More »How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords
For the past two months, cybercriminals have advertised for sale hundreds of millions of customer records from major companies like Ticketmaster, Santander Bank, and AT&T. And while massive data breaches have been a fact of life for more than a decade now, these recent examples are significant, because they are …
Read More »A North Korean Hacker Tricked a US Security Vendor Into Hiring Him—and Immediately Tried to Hack Them
KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor, revealed that it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who attempted to load malware into the company's network. KnowBe4 CEO and founder Stu Sjouwerman described the incident in a blog post this week, calling it a cautionary tale that was fortunately detected before causing any …
Read More »The Hugely Important Ocean Current You’ve Never Heard Of
If you haven’t heard of it before, you’re about to become intimately familiar with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. This system of currents—which brings water up the Atlantic from the southern tip of South America, through the tropics, and all the way to the coast of Iceland before looping back …
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