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Google’s new Magic Editor allows us to create AI-perfected fakery The Magic Editor transforms a photo in seconds. Google shows off its new editing tools in a demo. The AI-powered tool, dubbed the Magic Editor, certainly lived up to its name during the demo. But Google’s Magic Editor could make a more substantial form of…

How to ask Google’s AI the right questions I felt a shiver run down my spine when Google openly acknowledged that it’s hard to ask AI the right questions. That showed up again later in the keynote when Google demoed its new AI search results, called Search Generative Experience (SGE).For this more intuitive AI to…

Google AI pitch email hell I/O, this year, was focused on artificial intelligence, and one of its centerpieces was prompt-based text generation. But Google’s onstage ideas were almost impressive in their ability to serve precisely none of writing’s core purposes. As a writer, I don’t begrudge anyone who uses AI writing to meet largely arbitrary…

Discounted AirTags are available from Apple Memorial Day is just around the corner, and if you have plans to travel, today’s deal on Apple’s AirTags has landed at the perfect time. Apple’s air tags can help you find your lost items with its UWB technology. If you’d like to buy a set for the whole…

Android 14 played a surprisingly minor role in Google’s IO keynote During the keynote, Android 14 gets almost no airtime. That’s because it’s a minor update to the platform, and not because anyone cares that much about it. I asked Sameer Samat, vice president of the Android ecosystem, why Android 14 doesn’t get much airtime…

Android 14 barely made an appearance in Google’s IO keynote During the keynote, Android 14 gets almost no airtime. That’s because it’s a minor update to the platform, and not because anyone cares that much about it. I asked Sameer Samat, vice president of the Android ecosystem, why Android 14 got so little airtime in…

Worm malware exploiting follina vulnerability in new wave of attacks Securonix has discovered an ongoing phishing campaign that makes use of a unique attack chain to deliver the XWorm malware on targeted systems. The attacks begin with phishing and end with an obfuscated PowerShell script. The malware is also a Swiss Army knife in that…

New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Lets Cybercriminals Create Convinc A new phishing-as-a-service called Greatness has been used by cybercriminals to target business users of the Microsoft 365 cloud service since at least mid-2022, Cisco Talos reports. Greatness consists of a decoy and link builder that creates highly convincing decoy and login pages. It also has features such…

Snack answers out of stock months, I want Amazon’s best Let me tell you about the white cheddar puffs. My house has been out of stock since January. I don’t want to believe what may be the painful truth: that the white crisp puffs are never coming back. Nothing else has the same sharp cheddar…

Astro home robot could bring ChatGPT-like features to Amazon’s secret AI As a smart home reviewer of a certain age, I have always wanted a Rosie the robot. The Jetsons’ mechanical housekeeper was the example I held Amazon’s Astro to when I tested the company’s first home robot — and it unsurprisingly failed. Now, according…