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The Joy and Dread of AI Image Generators Without Limits
Image generators like Stable Diffusion can create what look like real photographs or hand-crafted illustrations depicting just about anything a…
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Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem
Burmese influencer Han Nyein Oo rose to prominence in 2020, posting memes and gossip about Burmese celebrities on Facebook to…
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What Happens to Everything With Queen Elizabeth II’s Image?
The situation is somewhat different with postboxes. There are 115,000 of them around the UK and most carry the queen’s…
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YouTube’s ‘Dislike’ Button Doesn’t Do What You Think
YouTube says its systems are working as they’re meant to. “Mozilla’s report doesn’t take into account how our systems actually…
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Electric Vehicles Could Rescue the US Power Grid
But utilities will likely play the biggest role in ushering in a new era of electricity grids, says Max Baumhefner,…
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Neal Stephenson Named the Metaverse. Now, He’s Building It
Hi, everybody. Elizabeth is mourned, Ukraine is battling back, and new Covid vaccines are here. But this week will be…
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Banning Gas Cars Is Good, but It’ll Take More to Save the Planet
When a California pollution regulator voted last month to approve a rule banning new gas-powered car sales in the state…
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A US Rail Strike Was Averted—but the Crisis Is Far From Over
In the early hours of Thursday morning, major US freight railroad companies reached a tentative agreement with unions, narrowly averting…
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Satellite Data Shows How Russia Has Destroyed Ukrainian Grain
Almost 10 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain has been affected by the Russian invasion, according to a new analysis…
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The Twitter Whistleblower’s Testimony Has Senators Out for Blood
Many of Silicon Valley’s fiercest watchdogs on Capitol Hill are now snarling. Yesterday’s arresting testimony by Twitter’s former security chief,…
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