Software Development

 Getty will indemnify customers against lawsuits and pay artists on “recurring basis.”   Enlarge (credit: Arun Nevader) Getty Images will give hundreds of thousands of users access to a new artificial intelligence image-generating tool, as a global intellectual property debate intensifies around the fast-moving technology. The US photo agency, one of the world’s largest with …

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 Apple patches 3 zero-days after they were used in a sophisticated attack.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple has patched a potent chain of iOS zero-days that were used to infect the iPhone of an Egyptian presidential candidate with sophisticated spyware developed by a commercial exploit seller, Google and researchers from Citizen Lab said Friday. …

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 No one mentioned that libwebp, a library found in millions of apps, was a 0-day origin.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other …

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 Amazon: “To help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place.”   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Amazon introduced a new policy that limits Kindle authors from self-publishing more than three books per day on its platform, reports The Guardian. The rule comes as Amazon works to curb abuses …

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 With better response to details and text, DALL-E 3 hopes to make prompt engineering obsolete.   Enlarge On Wednesday, OpenAI announced DALL-E 3, the latest version of its AI image-synthesis model that features full integration with ChatGPT. DALL-E 3 renders images by closely following complex descriptions and handling in-image text generation (such as labels and …

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 Update prepares for the inevitable fall of today’s cryptographic protocols.   Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The Signal Foundation, maker of the Signal Protocol that encrypts messages sent by more than a billion people, has rolled out an update designed to prepare for a very real prospect that’s never far from the thoughts …

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 DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google DeepMind researchers recently developed a technique to improve math ability in AI language models like ChatGPT by using other AI models to improve prompting—the written instructions that tell the AI model what to do. It found that …

Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study Read More »