“It has become increasingly challenging for the average human eye to distinguish between AI-generated and real photos,” said Andrey Doronichev, CEO and cofounder of Optic.xyz, a website that lets people upload images to detect whether they have been generated with AI or not. “This has the potential to manipulate public opinion, undermine the credibility of…
Bob Lee, a pioneer of financial technology who created the mobile payment platform Cash App, was stabbed to death in San Francisco on Tuesday, his family said. He was 43. San Francisco police said in a statement that officers were called regarding a stabbing at around 2:35 a.m. in the city’s downtown area, where they…
@dudewithsign is a popular Instagram account that features a tall man in sunglasses holding up a cardboard sign in various public places. Except instead of a serious protest message, the sign has a funny aphorism about modern life, like “Who TF is writing Yelp reviews” or “You can cold plunge without telling everyone.” The eponymous…
A grad student in Michigan received a threatening response during a chat with Google’s AI chatbot Gemini. In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults, Google’s Gemini responded with this threatening message: “This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you…
WASD One of the main showcases for UK gaming has been cancelled, reflecting the wider struggles of an industry which has seen a series of job cuts and studio closures. The WASD expo – which is usually held in London in April – is a shop window for British talent, with a particular emphasis on…
Volocopter The VoloCity made demonstration flights in Paris over the summer One of the innovations at this year’s Paris Olympics was supposed to be an electric flying taxi service. Germany’s Volocopter promised its electric-powered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city. It never happened. Instead the company ran demonstration flights. While…
The social media platform Bluesky was hit by an outage on Thursday, amid a rising wave of popularity for the app, which is often described as a friendlier alternative to X,. Bluesky has at times been the most downloaded app on both the US and UK Apple Stores in recent days, with many social media…
Riesman didn’t panic — but she didn’t want to impose her “spicy” pics on people. “It was, ‘Oh god, am I shoving my naked body in front of a load of people?’” she said. “I’ve curated my Circles to people I thought wouldn’t mind, but the general public does not need to see me in…
Police in San Francisco arrested a suspect on Thursday morning over last week’s stabbing death of Cash App creator and fintech pioneer Bob Lee, authorities said. San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott told reporters at an afternoon news conference that Nima Momeni, 38, was arrested at his home in Emeryville, a suburb between Oakland and…
PARIS — The April 6 protest had already been moving for half an hour by the time I found Rémy Buisine. The 32-year-old video journalist at French online media outlet Brut had given me his live location, but he wasn’t wearing his neon-yellow press armband yet and, given his outfit (a light, navy puffer jacket and…
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