Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
A group of hackers that says it believes “AI-generated artwork is detrimental to the creative industry and should be discouraged” is hacking people who are trying to use a popular interface for the AI image generation software Stable Diffusion with a malicious extension for the image generator interface shared on Github....
New California laws go into effect on July 1 (www.ktvu.com)
Hunter Biden convicted of three felony counts in federal gun trial (www.cbsnews.com)
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable (puri.sm)
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns (arstechnica.com)
Emerging Psychedelic Mushroom Alternative More Toxic Than Fentanyl, New Research Suggests (gizmodo.com)
YouTube testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers (9to5google.com)
Joey Chestnut out of 2024 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest over deal with rival brand (sports.yahoo.com)
Joey Chestnut, a legendary competitive eater and 16-time Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest champion, has been banned from the 2024 contest due to a new deal with rival brand Impossible Foods....
My Wonderful, Horrible Life by Travis Thompson & Nima Skeemz (album.link)
cross-posted from: lemmyf.uk/post/10518192...
A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty (medium.com)
Washington is not telling truth about the Gaza pier (responsiblestatecraft.org)
Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. You need a Copilot + PC with an NPU that can deliver 40 TOPS or better to use it. So, you need to shell out at least $1,099 to get one of the new Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs that...
Ridiculed Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror (arstechnica.com)
Introducing The Jackbox Megapicker - a launcher for all Jackbox games (www.jackboxgames.com)
Finally.
Bird flu detected in Houston-area wastewater (www.click2houston.com)
Who’s ready for Pandemic 2?
Steam owner Valve accused of ripping off 14m UK gamers (www.bbc.com)
Valve Corporation is being accused of using its market dominance to overcharge 14 million people in the UK....
Heretic - Fully Remastered [Fan made] (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Path of Exile 2 devs working on Steam Deck compatibility (www.pcgamesn.com)
Nasa astronaut distress message broadcast in error (www.bbc.com)
Nasa has confirmed audio shared widely on social media of astronauts in distress was a simulation broadcast on its YouTube channel in error....
A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team. (www.pcgamer.com)
Senate Republicans block Democratic bill to establish nationwide IVF protections (www.nbcnews.com)
It’s part of a push by Democrats to highlight the electoral contrast over reproductive rights. Before the vote, GOP senators said they favor legal IVF but prefer a narrower bill....
AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips (www.tomshardware.com)
In another attempt to convince us that “AI PCs” are somehow fundamentally different from the PCs we’re already using, AMD has officially dropped support for Windows 10 from its new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series platform. This can be observed by glancing at the official AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page, which now only lists...
Chinese #MeToo journalist jailed for five years (www.bbc.com)
A prominent female #MeToo activist in China has been handed a five-year jail sentence for “subversion against the state”....