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OpenAI announced last month that its natural language image generation system, DALL·E 2, is now available for beta testing. DALL·E generates photorealistic images based on natural language text descriptions, and additional usage requires payment. Now startup Stability AI has announced DALL·E’s open-source competitor, Stable Diffusion, with the source code on GitHub. Stable Diffusion can run […]

At the Def Con security conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Sick Codes demonstrated running the Doom game on a tractor display made by John Deere. Sick Codes said the whole process took several months, including jailbreaking the Linux system used by the John Deere 4240 tractor . Doom running on a tractor is of

The United States banned the export of 3-nanometer chip production technology on national security grounds. The newly announced export bans include two ultra-wide-gap semiconductor materials, certain ECAD computer-aided design techniques, and pressure ignition techniques. ECAD can be used to design circuits that support gate-around field-effect transistors (GAAFETs), which can be used to produce chips 3

The Xe integrated graphics and Arc Alchemist discrete graphics on Intel’s 12th generation CPUs drop the hardware’s native support for DX9 and will instead support DX9 in an emulated form via DirectX 12 . The simulation will run on Microsoft’s D3D9On12 open source translation layer. It works by sending 3D DirectX 9 graphics commands to

Mozilla announced the appointment of Steve Teixeira as Chief Product Officer, who will lead its product team. Teixeira previously worked at Twitter as VP of Product for Machine Learning and Data Platforms; led product management, design and research for Facebook’s infrastructure division; and spent 14 years at Microsoft. He said Mozilla’s products such as Firefox

According to Reuters , citing people familiar with the matter (paywall or privacy model), Tencent plans to sell all or most of its $24 billion stake in Meituan. The move is aimed at quelling regulators’ concerns. After the news broke, Meituan’s Hong Kong-listed share price plummeted 10%, and Tencent responded by saying it declined to

Google released Android 13 and began to push it to its Pixel series of smartphones. Major manufacturers such as Samsung, Asus, Nokia/HMD, Motorola, Xiaomi, OnePlus, iQOO, Oppo, Realme, etc. will update Android to some of their models later this year. 13. New changes in Android 13 include: customizing non-Google apps to match wallpaper themes and

Twilio, which provides phone number verification services for encrypted messaging app Signal, was recently hit by a phishing attack that compromised around 1,900 Signal users by accessing its customer support console. Signal said that no personal data such as message histories, address books, etc. of any users were affected. For the 1,900 potentially affected users,

Apple has set September 5 as the date it will require employees to return to the office at least three days a week. Apple requires work in the office every Tuesday and Thursday, with the other day at the discretion of the respective teams. Employees can telecommute two days a week, four weeks a year.

With climate change, heat waves appear more frequently, and more and more people rely on air conditioners to survive hot climates. However, air conditioners are also an important source of global warming. The fundamentals of air conditioning have not changed since their invention a century ago. It uses a lot of energy and uses harmful

Most AI systems of the past decade have been based on supervised learning, trained using human-annotated datasets. They have been hugely successful, but have notable flaws. This type of AI is of little help in understanding how the brain works because animals, including humans, do not learn from labeled datasets. Biological brains gain a deep

The latest TIOBE Language Popularity Index shows that Python’s top spot remains intact. Tiobe, a Dutch software quality assurance company that has tracked programming language popularity for more than two decades, focuses on enterprise-level languages, ranking based on factors such as language-related search queries, with Java and C at the top for years, but last

Both Apple and IBM have added caste discrimination to existing anti-discrimination rules based on race, religion, gender, age and ancestry. The news had not been reported before, but The New Yorker’s report on caste discrimination within Google brought renewed attention to the issue. The caste system in India has been in place for two thousand