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55% of U.S. teens have used AI to create sexualized images, survey finds

In a survey study of U.S. teens, more than half (55.3%) reported that they had created at least one image using nudification ...

Kagi Translate’s AI answers the question “What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?”

But what if you want to translate into more esoteric “languages” like “LinkedIn Speak,” “Gen Z slang,” or “horny Margaret Thatcher”? This week, many people across the Internet have been bemused to ...

Liquid biopsy method uses nanoparticle Raman signals to separate two lookalike enzymes

RIKEN researchers have demonstrated a method that can detect tiny amounts of biomarkers in liquid samples and can distinguish between highly similar biomarkers. This promises to boost the versatility ...
Live Science

New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models — and it's coming to smartphones and laptops

Researchers have developed an AI image generator that produces images in just four steps, rather than dozens. This could bring fast, private image generation directly to consumer devices.
PCMag

Are You Reading AI Right Now? Here Are 7 Surefire Ways to Spot It

At PCMag, I review AI and productivity software—everything from chatbots to to-do list apps. In my free time, I’m likely cooking something, playing a game, or tinkering with my computer. I’ve been ...

Tennessee teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over AI-generated child sexual abuse material

The three girls say that the nonconsensual nude images were created by a perpetrator who used AI company xAI's image generation tools.

Your handwritten notes could become a computer font thanks to AI

Your handwritten notes could become a computer font thanks to Claude ...

New “vibe coded” AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community

Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” just over a year ago, we’ve seen a rapid increase in both the ...

Apple releases critical security update for older iPhones and iPads to address Coruna exploit

Apple has released important updates for older iPhones and iPads that do not run the newer versions of iOS and iPadOS. These updates include security patches to counter a dangerous exploit kit, that ...

Google's Gemini Embedding 2 arrives with native multimodal support to cut costs and speed up your enterprise data stack

While previous embedding models were largely restricted to text, this new model natively integrates text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single numerical space — reducing latency by as muc ...
The Verge

Google Photos now lets you describe how to transform images into video

The tool was previously limited to subtle or randomized video generation options. The tool was previously limited to subtle or randomized video generation options. is a news writer focused on ...
Bleeping Computer

Over 10,000 Docker Hub images found leaking credentials, auth keys

More than 10,000 Docker Hub container images expose data that should be protected, including live credentials to production systems, CI/CD databases, or LLM model keys. The secrets impact a little ...