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Getty Images prohibits the upload and sale of images generated by AI tools such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Natural language image generation models such as DALL-E have produced an astonishing array of artistic images over the past few months, and some artists have subsequently uploaded the images to image sales sites for sale. […]

Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Kitty Hawk, the flying taxi company funded by Alphabet co-founder Larry Page, informed employees of the layoffs . Thrun is the former founder of Google X, and Larry Page has been Kitty Hawk’s sole investor for many years. The flying car developed by the company is fully electric propulsion and can

Evgeny Gaevoy , CEO of cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute, tweeted on Tuesday that Wintermute’s decentralized finance business (DeFi) was hacked and lost about $160 million . The company’s centralized financing and off-exchange operations were unaffected, while the company’s “remaining equity capital exceeds twice the above amount and is solvent.” “If you have a market-making agreement

Version 1.0 of the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime is released , which means it is production-ready. WebAssembly or wasm originated from the Asm.js project initiated by Mozilla. It is designed to complement JavaScript and can provide faster compilation and execution than JavaScript, making it possible to run high-performance web applications on browsers. Wasmtime is an independent

Search is the backbone of the digital economy, but it is controlled by a few giants. In order to achieve free, unbiased and transparent access to information, 14 research and computing centers in 7 EU countries have launched the Open Web Search project to build an open infrastructure for EU Web search. Over the next

The Document Foundation, which developed LibreOffice, began charging for Mac App Store releases. LibreOffice is a branch of OpenOffic and is currently the most popular open source office software. It has an enterprise version, LibreOffice Enterprise, which provides paid support, and a free community version, LibreOffice Community. Starting this week, the foundation announced a fee

Last week, the South Korean District Attorney’s Office in southern Seoul announced that it had obtained arrest warrants for six people including Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon from the court. Do Kwon, who has been in Singapore recently, told the prosecution through his lawyer that he had no intention of appearing in court. Prosecutors have

A small study by De Montfort University in the United Kingdom found that children lose one night of sleep each week due to excessive social network addiction. In the study of 60 children under the age of 12, 70% use social media more than four hours a day, two-thirds use social apps two hours before

A Las Vegas surgeon revealed that dozens of software engineers paid him $70,000 to $150,000 for height- enhancing surgeries . These software engineers are mostly from well-known technology companies, including PayPal, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, and one of them is a woman. Dr. Kevin Debiparshad said his LimbplastX Institute has had double the usual

Extraterrestrial water was found in a meteorite that fell in the UK last year. The 0.5kg meteorite, which fell on a driveway in the town of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire in February 2021, was quickly recovered within 12 hours of its fall, and it was also the least contaminated so far collected sample. About 12 percent

At the Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit , Linus Torvalds said that unless something weird happens, Rust will be coming to Linux 6.1. The version currently under development is Linux 6.0, with 6.1 being the next version. The first to enter the kernel is the NVMe driver developed in the Rust language, which has achieved comparable

At this month’s Sinquefield Cup chess tournament, 19-year-old American Hans Niemann upset 53-match undefeated champion Magnus Carlsen, only to lead to a cheating accusation . Niemann admits to cheating in online games before, but firmly denies cheating in offline games. Whatever the truth is, everyone agrees that cheating at a chess tournament in 2022 is

Uber’s network systems were hacked last week, and the ride-hailing giant said in a security advisory Monday that an EXT contractor’s account had been compromised by attackers. The attacker may have purchased the contractor’s Uber password on the dark web after the contractor’s personal device was infected with malware. After the attacker sent a large