Software Development

 Feature hopes to remove language barriers, but will speakers know if translations are faulty?   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Spotify rolled out a limited pilot program that uses AI to automatically translate podcasts into various languages, using voice synthesis technology from OpenAI to preserve the original speaker’s voice. The feature aims to offer …

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 Previous CVE submission failed to mention that thousands of apps were affected.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google has quietly resubmitted a disclosure of a critical code-execution vulnerability affecting thousands of individual apps and software frameworks after its previous submission left readers with the mistaken impression that the threat affected only the Chrome browser. The …

Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-day Read More »

 A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private.   Enlarge GPUs from all six of the major suppliers are vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that allows malicious websites to read the usernames, passwords, and other sensitive visual data displayed by other websites, researchers have demonstrated in a …

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 Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When you type a question into Google Search, the site sometimes provides a quick answer called a Featured Snippet at the top of the results, pulled from websites it has indexed. On Monday, X user Tyler Glaiel noticed that …

Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result Read More »

 Image recognition and voice features aim to make the AI bot’s interface more intuitive.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI announced a significant update to ChatGPT that enables its GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 AI models to analyze images and react to them as part of a text conversation. Also, the ChatGPT mobile app will …

ChatGPT update enables its AI to “see, hear, and speak,” according to OpenAI Read More »

 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 …

Getty Images subscribers to get access to AI image generator Read More »

 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. …

3 iOS 0-days, a cellular network compromise, and HTTP used to infect an iPhone Read More »

 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 …

AI-generated books force Amazon to cap e-book publications to 3 per day Read More »

 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 …

OpenAI’s new AI image generator pushes the limits in detail and prompt fidelity Read More »