Month: October 2023

Google’s AI-powered search experience can now generate images, write drafts

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Google’s AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today. The AI feature, which introduces a conversational mode in Search, is now going to be able to generate images using prompts directly in SGE similar to rival Bing’s support of OpenAI’s DALLE-E 3. In addition, SGE will now allow users … Read more

Another major WordPress security flaw is putting thousands of websites at risk

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Cybersecurity researchers from Defiant recently spotted a new malware strain targeting WordPress by impersonating an optimization plugin. The goal of the malware, it was said, was to grant the attackers administrative access to the WordPress website. While cleaning a website over the summer of 2022, the researchers discovered a plugin with a “professional-looking” opening comment … Read more

Third-party Reddit app Narwhal hopes to survive Reddit’s app purge with a subscription plan

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After a nasty battle between the developers of third-party apps and Reddit management, ultimately resulting in a site-wide protest, many app makers were put out of business due to Reddit’s price increases related to the usage of its API. Though the changes meant the loss of popular apps like Apollo, RIF (Reddit is Fun), ReddPlanent, … Read more

Adobe Firefly can now generate more realistic images

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At MAX, its annual conference for creatives, Adobe today announced that it has updated the models that power Firefly, its generative AI image creation service. According to Adobe, the Firefly Image 2 Model, as it’s officially called, will be better at rendering humans, for example, including facial features, skin, body and hands (which have long … Read more