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DALL-E now lets you edit images in ChatGPT

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OpenAI’s DALL-E is getting a couple of upgrades today that help you shape your AI-generated masterpieces. First, you’ll now find image editing tools when using DALL-E within ChatGPT, both on the web and on mobile. Second, DALL-E now offers preset style suggestions to help inspire image creation — not unlike Android’s AI-generated wallpaper prompts. Because … Read more

How to hack the Jacksonville Jaguars’ jumbotron (and end up in jail for 220 years)

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Enlarge / Three examples of the video screen tampering. US DOJ Was someone messing with the Jacksonville Jaguars’ giant jumbotron? On September 16, 2018, the Jaguars were playing the New England Patriots when the in-stadium screen experienced, in the US government’s words, “a loss in reference sync which manifested as a large horizontal green lines … Read more

The chemistry of milk washing, aka the secret to Ben Franklin’s favorite tipple

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Explore the chemistry behind making a cocktail with curdled milk, aka milk washing—like Ben Franklin’s fave, milk punch. It’s well-known that Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father who enjoyed a nice tipple or two (or three). One of his favorite alcoholic beverages was milk punch, a heady concoction of brandy, lemon juice, nutmeg, sugar, water, … Read more

WhatsApp is down worldwide in a major outage

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WhatsApp is down worldwide, impacting the 2 billion users of the messaging service. Users started experiencing issues connecting to WhatsApp in multiple countries just after 2PM ET today, with the service stuck on “connecting” for many. The Meta-owned messaging service appears to be experiencing a major outage worldwide. WhatsApp doesn’t have its own status page, … Read more

AI-Generated Spoofs of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok

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The blending of the real and unreal could explain why some faux-Drag Race followers get so passionate about what they’re seeing on their feeds. Michael says he “lives for the overreactions of fans” who believe his creations are real people. He says people often ask him for a queen’s actual Instagram handle. “I also get … Read more

Amazon kills “Just Walk Out” shopping tech—it never really worked

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Enlarge / Amazon Go Grocery’s first location in the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill. Sam Machkovech Amazon is giving up on the cashier-less “Just Walk Out” technology at its “Amazon Go” convenience stores. The Information reports that new stores will be built without computer-vision-powered surveillance technology, and “the majority” of existing stores will have the … Read more

US Navy Veteran Who Feds Say Rammed FBI Headquarters Had QAnon-Linked Online Presence

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A former Navy submarine technician was arrested after law enforcement says he drove an SUV into the FBI headquarters near Atlanta on Monday afternoon. It is still unclear why the suspect, Ervin Lee Bolling, attempted to force entry into the headquarters, but research conducted by the nonpartisan public-interest nonprofit Advance Democracy and shared exclusively with … Read more

FCC will vote on restoring net neutrality rules

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The Federal Communications Commission will vote on April 25th on a proposal to restore net neutrality rules, the agency announced on Wednesday. If the five-member panel votes to restore the rules, internet service providers (ISP) will be reclassified from information services to common carriers, bringing stricter regulations with the change. The idea of net neutrality … Read more