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People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse A new poll finds that worries about the harmful effects of AI are outpacing concerns about the positive effects of helpful AI.The results come at a time when a growing number of people are paying attention to news about AI in their daily lives. That…

Meta may offer paid ad-free Facebook and Instagram in Europe The New York Times reports that Meta is considering a paid subscription to its social media products, an attempt by the company to quell concerns by the EU around data privacy and ads. The company has been fighting with the EU and other European regulators…

Gizmodo’s owner shuts down Spanish language site in favor of AI translations Gizmodo owner G/O Media has shut down its Spanish-language site and is now using AI to translate articles. But the transition to using AI isn’t as smooth as they’d like it to be. New articles posted on the site now have a disclaimer…

Microsoft PowerToys’ Crop and Lock lets you make mini app windows Some UWP apps won’t react well to being cropped in Reparent” mode. This is a bug that affects applications that have tabs or windows with multiple windows. Notepad and OneNote are two examples. cropping maximized or full-screen windows in Recurrent mode might not work.…

Google Chat is now like Slack, Teams, Discord, and ChatGPT Google has released a new version of its Chat app, an answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams. The company claims that this launch is kind of a coming-out party for Chat. New features include the ability to start a video or audio chat in one…

Google AI watermark The watermark is embedded in the pixels of the image, but Hassabis says it doesn’t alter the image itself in any noticeable way. The Google DeepMind team has believed for years that building great generative AI tools also requires building great tools to detect what has been created by AI. SynthID is…

GM is using Google’s AI chatbot to handle simple customer service calls OnStar calls will now be easier because of advances in artificial intelligence. General Motors is using conversational AI chatbots to handle simple OnStar calls, freeing up its human employees to address more complex requests. More details about its use of AI will be…

Google’s Duet AI is now available for more platforms Google announced Duet AI at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. Now, it’s rolling out to all of its Workspace apps, including Gmail, Drive, Slides, Docs, and more. Duet does try to stay grounded in your data and files, but anyone relying on Google’s AI…

Citrix NetScaler Alert: Ransomware Attackers Exploiting Critical Unpatched Citrix NetScaler systems are being targeted by unknown threat actors in what’s suspected to be a ransomware attack. The attacks reportedly involve the exploitation of CVE-2023-3519, a critical code injection vulnerability. This vulnerability allows attackers to gain remote code execution. Sophos said the modus operandi aligns closely…

How to Use AI to Talk to Whales to Save Life on Earth This woman realized that, for her whole life, the natural world had been out there, and she had been missing it. She broadcast a sequence of whup calls and recorded what the whales did in response. The whales’ voices returned through the…