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Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer.

Enlarge / An Adobe Firefly AI image generator example. (credit: Adobe) On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled Firefly, its new AI image synthesis generator. Unlike other AI art models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E,…

Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face

Enlarge / Ecuadorian police tweeted this picture of officials investigating a drive mailed to a journalist in Guayaquil. (credit: Policía Ecuador/Twitter) It's no secret that USB flash drives, as small and unremarkable as…

If your Netgear Orbi router isn’t patched, you’ll want to change that pronto

Enlarge / An Orbi 750 series router. (credit: Netgear) If you rely on Netgear’s Orbi mesh wireless system to connect to the Internet, you’ll want to ensure it’s running the latest firmware now…

Bing’s AI chatbot can now generate unhinged images along with unhinged text

Enlarge / "A gaming PC riding a skateboard" as generated by the DALL-E 2-powered Bing Image Creator. The version of DALL-E in the Bing Chat preview may be more advanced. (credit: Bing Image…

Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years

Enlarge (credit: Nikon) Amazon has plans to lay off at least 27,000 workers this year, including 9,000 that were announced in an internal email Monday morning. One unexpected casualty: Digital Photography Review, also…

Hackers drain bitcoin ATMs of $1.5 million by exploiting 0-day bug

Enlarge / A BATM sold by General Bytes. (credit: General Bytes) Hackers drained millions of dollars in digital coins from cryptocurrency ATMs by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability, leaving customers on the hook for…

Amazon is laying off another 9,000 workers

Enlarge / Amazon has announced 27,000 layoffs since November 2022. (credit: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) Amazon will lay off another 9,000 workers in the coming weeks. The news was delivered in an email from…

Google tells users of some Android phones: Nuke voice calling to avoid infection

Enlarge / Images of the Samsung Galaxy S21, which runs with an Exynos chipset. (credit: Samsung) Google is urging owners of certain Android phones to take urgent action to protect themselves from critical…

Anthropic introduces Claude, a “more steerable” AI competitor to ChatGPT

Enlarge (credit: Anthropic) On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude, a large language model (LLM) that can generate text, write code, and function as an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. The model originates from core…

Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is like an omniscient version of Clippy

Enlarge / Microsoft 365 Copilot will attempt to automate content generation and analysis in all of the former Microsoft Office apps. (credit: Microsoft) Today Microsoft took the wraps off of Microsoft 365 Copilot,…