First known photos of 'lost bird' captured by scientists
The first-ever photograph of the Yellow-crested Helmetshrike, or Prionops alberti, was taken during a recent expedition led by scientists at The University of Texas at El Paso. Credit: Matt Brady,…
New software for radio stations creates fake listener calls using artificial intelligence
(Stock image)The next time you listen to a radio call-in show, “Dave on Line 4” might actually be a robot.
This week, audio imaging provider Benztown debuted a new product that allows radio stations…
A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day
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Update: After this article was published, Automattic told 404 Media that it is "deprecating" the Firehose: "SocialGist is rolling off as a…
A 'great flood' of AI noise is coming for the internet and it's swallowing Twitter first
One morning in January this year, marine scientist Terry Hughes opened X (formerly Twitter) and searched for tweets about the Great Barrier Reef.
"I keep an eye on what's being tweeted about the…
Generative AI's environmental costs are soaring – and mostly secret
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Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices
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Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog said Thursday in a…
How I turned my open-source project into a business
When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a…
Is Tableau Dead?
Is Tableau Dead?No... and Yes.
The momentum and community around Tableau has been lost. But current and projected future revenue growth is solid. It's not the company that it used to be, but it'll be…
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A short game on detecting AI-generated videos
A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months
Hiding on Slack isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s…
Curl HTTP/3 security audit
An external security audit focused especially on curl’s HTTP/3 components and associated source code was recently concluded by Trail of Bits. In particular on the HTTP/3 related curl code that uses…
Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps
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Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps, and other tools aimed at increasing privacy.
Avast's apps would "block…
