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AI-enabled study tools from Quizlet think I’m a bad student Using Quizlet’s Magic Notes as a study guide, Magic Notes composes a summary of a story by The Verge’s Makena Kelly. Before adding generative AI, users had to manually add questions to custom flashcards and quizzes. Magic Notes did a pretty good job summarizing the…

TikTok is seemingly making it easier to disclose if your content was generated by a TikTok has a new way for creators to indicate whether or not their posts contain AI-generated content. It’s called the AI Generated Content toggle and it appears next to the “more options” section when uploading a video. When you flip…

Google’s Arts & Culture app adds AI-generated postcards with poems Emma Roth / The Verge Emma uses Google’s Arts and Culture app to create a poem postcard using poems generated by the company’s artificial intelligence engine. The poem is a limerick about fried dough. Poem postcards live within the Arts and Culture app and website,…

Design tools that make it easy to create Westworld-like worlds are coming to Rob As part of a longer answer about how AI might help Roblox developers, Baszucki mentions that the company is working on generative AI tools . He says that someday, anyone will be able to make their own avatar or clothing 100…

Google and OpenAI join forces with the White House to tackle cybersecurity challenges. The Biden administration is teaming up with four artificial intelligence companies to sponsor a new cybersecurity challenge aimed at protecting the US’s critical infrastructure. The challenge, called the “AI Cyber Challenge,” was announced at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas…

ChatGPT-powered review summaries from Newegg could help you pick your next Newegg has updated its search engine to include reviews in addition to product reviews. The company claims that the new feature will make it easier to sift through the masses when searching for PC parts and other tech. Newegg describes the AI-generated reviews as…

Apple can keep its App Store payment rules for now, according to the Supreme Court. As first reported by Bloomberg and Reuters, Justice Elena Kagan declined to vacate a stay on a lower court order about Apple’s anti-steering rules. The Supreme Court has rejected Epic’s request to make Apple loosen its App Store rules as…

New Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Modern CPUs: Collide+, Power, Downfall Researchers have discovered a trio of new side-channel attacks that can be used to compromise modern CPUs. The attacks, called Collide+Power, Downfall, and Inception, involve hijacking the transient control flow of return instructions on all AMD Zen CPUs. They exploit a previously discovered security vulnerability affecting…

China-Linked Hackers Strike Worldwide: 17 Nations Hit in 3-Year Cyber Hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security have been linked to more than 17 countries in 17 different countries between 2021 and 2023. The companies targeted by the MSS include academics, aerospace, government, media, telecommunications, and research. Trend Micro describes RedHotel as a highly-skilled…

Continuous security validation with penetration testing as a service Pen Testing as a Service (PTaaS) gives CISOs the capabilities they need to conduct continuous pen testing to uncover weaknesses in networks, applications, and cloud systems from a certified third party that provides continuous security testing, vulnerability scanning, and insights on critical risks. The Problem with…