A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)
“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers (www.cnn.com)
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...
Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? (arstechnica.com)
Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)
Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat – be careful where you upload files (theconversation.com)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes (www.nextplatform.com)
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)
AI CloudFlare: Access different LLM models over API (ai.cloudflare.com)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (www.theverge.com)
Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door (www.bbc.co.uk)
Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' (www.thecooldown.com)
If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon (www.xda-developers.com)
HMD Pulse trio unveiled: affordable phones with 'Gen 1 repairability' (www.gsmarena.com)
HMD is betting that consumers are moving to more environmentally-conscious products and are placing an emphasis on repairability. HMD says the Pulse range is built to “Gen 1 repairability” and that users can pick up self-repair kits from iFixit. Repairs include changing the battery, but also swapping the screen.
Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine (torrentfreak.com)
Personally found this article highly interesting, it’s very much worth a read. Have included the full article with images and links in the spoiler below 🌻...
Passkeys: A Shattered Dream (fy.blackhats.net.au)
Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says (www.seattletimes.com)
Raspberry Pi CM5 Forward Guidance released (pip.raspberrypi.com)
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 will have the following features....