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Instagram Is Working on an AI-Powered Editing Tool That Can Reimagine Users’ Videos
Instagram is working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to reimagine their videos. The AI-powered video editing tool is built on Meta’s Movie Gen AI model, an early research project that can generate videos from text prompts. On Instagram, instead of letting users generate videos from scratch, the feature will add...
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Google Launches Deep Research Agentic Feature in Gemini, Can Prepare Reports on Complex Topics
Google added a new agentic feature to Gemini on Wednesday. Dubbed Deep Research, the feature was introduced alongside the new Gemini 2.0 family of AI models. It can create multi-step research plans, run web searches, and prepare a detailed report on complex topics. The Mountain View-based tech giant says the feature can be useful to researchers and...
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Chameleon AI Model That Can Add Digital Mask to Protect Images From Facial Recognition Tools Unveiled
A group of researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can protect users from undesired facial scanning by bad actors. Dubbed Chameleon, the AI model uses a special masking technology to generate a mask that hides the faces in images without impacting the visual quality of the protected image. Additionally, the researcher...
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OpenAI Nears Launch Of AI Agent Tool To Automate Tasks For Users
In a staff meeting on Wednesday, OpenAI's leadership announced plans to release the tool in January as a research preview
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Meta Releases Open-Source AI Tool AudioCraft to Create Music and Audio
Meta Platforms on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music, sound, compression and generation, Meta said. MusicGen is trained using company-owned and specifically l...
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Hackers Exploit Security Flaw in Popular File Transfer Tool MOVEit to Steal User Data
Hackers have stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the popular file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer, US security researchers said on Thursday, one day after the maker of the software disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered.
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aCropalypse Flaw Allows Recovery of Sensitive Data Removed From Pixel Screenshots, Researchers Say
Pixel smartphones are affected by a new security flaw, dubbed aCropalypse, that allows anyone on the Internet to recover information on screenshots that were cropped, obscured, redacted, or hidden, according to security researchers. Google has reportedly fixed the issue on some of its Pixel smartphones with the latest March security update.
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YouTube, Facebook Commit to Tackling Online Extremism, Educating Younger Users: Report
YouTube, Facebook and Microsoft on Thursday have announced plans to tackle violent content and extremism online. The Alphabet-owned streaming service will educate younger users on identifying misinformation and manipulation tactics, and remove content glorifying violence. Meta will work with researchers, and Microsoft will share a cheaper version o...
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Digital Tool Shown to Be Effective in Helping People Reduce Alcohol Intake on Their Own: Details
Researchers have found that users who had access to digital support began to feel more self-assured about how they could go about actually changing their behaviour and reduce their intake of alcohol. A digital tool has shown promise in the form of helping users cut down their alcohol intake by at least 25 percent, according to a new study.
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DALL-E AI Text to Image Tool Enters Beta Testing, OpenAI to Invite 1 Million Users on Waitlist
DALL-E, the popular AI-based tool to generate images from text, has entered beta testing, according to developer OpenAI. The firm will invite a million users on its waitlist to test the text-to-image tool over the coming weeks. While concerns have been raised about the use of the software to create disinformation, the company says it has built-in s...
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Researchers in Spain Develop Algorithm That Can Identify Unhappy Users and Their Mental Health on Social Media
Researchers at the Open University of Catalonia in Spain have developed an algorithm that can identify people who are unhappy by screening the posts they share on social media. The researchers believe this tool could be useful in diagnosing possible communication problems and mental health.
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Google Search Gets AI Improvements for Better User Experience, Adds ‘Hum to Search’ Feature to Identify Songs
Google Search has added several new AI-based tools to enhance user experience, the company announced during its Search On livestream on October 15. It brings in a host of improvements that includes better understanding of spelling inputs from users, indexing individual passages from webpages, dividing broader searches into subtopics, dividing video...
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How You Can Help Fight COVID-19 With This Global Open Source Tool
With the coronavirus outbreak, Folding@Home comes as a platform that will allow people across the world to play their part in helping scientists speed up their research by lending computing power from their personal computers to researchers.
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Google Details Security Flaws It Found in Apple's Safari Browser; Fixed Last Year
Google researchers have detailed multiple security flaws they found in Apple's Safari Web browser that allowed the tracking of users' browsing behaviour.
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Instagram's New Fact-Checking Tool May Have Limited Impact on Disinformation
Researchers worry that a new feature giving Instagram users the power to flag false news on the platform won't do much to head off efforts to use disinformation to sow political discord in 2020.
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Instagram Is Working on an AI-Powered Editing Tool That Can Reimagine Users’ Videos
Instagram is working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to reimagine their videos. The AI-powered video editing tool is built on Meta’s Movie Gen AI model, an early research project that can generate videos from text prompts. On Instagram, instead of letting users generate videos from scratch, the feature will add...
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Google Launches Deep Research Agentic Feature in Gemini, Can Prepare Reports on Complex Topics
Google added a new agentic feature to Gemini on Wednesday. Dubbed Deep Research, the feature was introduced alongside the new Gemini 2.0 family of AI models. It can create multi-step research plans, run web searches, and prepare a detailed report on complex topics. The Mountain View-based tech giant says the feature can be useful to researchers and...
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Chameleon AI Model That Can Add Digital Mask to Protect Images From Facial Recognition Tools Unveiled
A group of researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can protect users from undesired facial scanning by bad actors. Dubbed Chameleon, the AI model uses a special masking technology to generate a mask that hides the faces in images without impacting the visual quality of the protected image. Additionally, the researcher...
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OpenAI Nears Launch Of AI Agent Tool To Automate Tasks For Users
In a staff meeting on Wednesday, OpenAI's leadership announced plans to release the tool in January as a research preview
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Meta Releases Open-Source AI Tool AudioCraft to Create Music and Audio
Meta Platforms on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music, sound, compression and generation, Meta said. MusicGen is trained using company-owned and specifically l...
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Hackers Exploit Security Flaw in Popular File Transfer Tool MOVEit to Steal User Data
Hackers have stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the popular file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer, US security researchers said on Thursday, one day after the maker of the software disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered.
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aCropalypse Flaw Allows Recovery of Sensitive Data Removed From Pixel Screenshots, Researchers Say
Pixel smartphones are affected by a new security flaw, dubbed aCropalypse, that allows anyone on the Internet to recover information on screenshots that were cropped, obscured, redacted, or hidden, according to security researchers. Google has reportedly fixed the issue on some of its Pixel smartphones with the latest March security update.
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YouTube, Facebook Commit to Tackling Online Extremism, Educating Younger Users: Report
YouTube, Facebook and Microsoft on Thursday have announced plans to tackle violent content and extremism online. The Alphabet-owned streaming service will educate younger users on identifying misinformation and manipulation tactics, and remove content glorifying violence. Meta will work with researchers, and Microsoft will share a cheaper version o...
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Digital Tool Shown to Be Effective in Helping People Reduce Alcohol Intake on Their Own: Details
Researchers have found that users who had access to digital support began to feel more self-assured about how they could go about actually changing their behaviour and reduce their intake of alcohol. A digital tool has shown promise in the form of helping users cut down their alcohol intake by at least 25 percent, according to a new study.
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DALL-E AI Text to Image Tool Enters Beta Testing, OpenAI to Invite 1 Million Users on Waitlist
DALL-E, the popular AI-based tool to generate images from text, has entered beta testing, according to developer OpenAI. The firm will invite a million users on its waitlist to test the text-to-image tool over the coming weeks. While concerns have been raised about the use of the software to create disinformation, the company says it has built-in s...
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Researchers in Spain Develop Algorithm That Can Identify Unhappy Users and Their Mental Health on Social Media
Researchers at the Open University of Catalonia in Spain have developed an algorithm that can identify people who are unhappy by screening the posts they share on social media. The researchers believe this tool could be useful in diagnosing possible communication problems and mental health.
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Google Search Gets AI Improvements for Better User Experience, Adds ‘Hum to Search’ Feature to Identify Songs
Google Search has added several new AI-based tools to enhance user experience, the company announced during its Search On livestream on October 15. It brings in a host of improvements that includes better understanding of spelling inputs from users, indexing individual passages from webpages, dividing broader searches into subtopics, dividing video...
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How You Can Help Fight COVID-19 With This Global Open Source Tool
With the coronavirus outbreak, Folding@Home comes as a platform that will allow people across the world to play their part in helping scientists speed up their research by lending computing power from their personal computers to researchers.
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Google Details Security Flaws It Found in Apple's Safari Browser; Fixed Last Year
Google researchers have detailed multiple security flaws they found in Apple's Safari Web browser that allowed the tracking of users' browsing behaviour.
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Instagram's New Fact-Checking Tool May Have Limited Impact on Disinformation
Researchers worry that a new feature giving Instagram users the power to flag false news on the platform won't do much to head off efforts to use disinformation to sow political discord in 2020.
