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OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3

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OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out...
OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).The company says watermarks from C2PA will appear in images generated on the ChatGPT website and the API for the DALL-E 3 model. M...
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States, including CA and NY, sign heat pump memorandum to reduce air pollution

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Nine states inked an agreement today to promote heat pump sales. The memorandum of understanding (MOU)...
Nine states inked an agreement today to promote heat pump sales. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) sets a 2030 target for heat pumps to make up 65 of residential heating, cooling, and water heating equipment sales. By 2040, the goal is for heat pumps to account for 90 percent of the HVAC and water heating market...
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The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040

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The European Commission today recommended reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels by 90 percent by...
The European Commission today recommended reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels by 90 percent by 2040 compared to 1990 levels. At face value, it’s an ambitious target for transforming the European Union’s energy system. As always, though, the devil is in the details. And the proposed plan is already ga...
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Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Mozilla is introducing a new paid subscription privacy monitoring service called Mozilla Monitor Plus. For $8.99...
Mozilla is introducing a new paid subscription privacy monitoring service called Mozilla Monitor Plus. For $8.99 a month under its annual subscription, Mozilla says it will automatically keep a lookout for your information at over 190 sites where brokers sell information they’ve gathered from online sources like soc...
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WhatsApp plans to interoperate with other messaging apps

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WhatsApp, like many other major tech platforms, will have to make some significant changes to comply...
WhatsApp, like many other major tech platforms, will have to make some significant changes to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). One of those changes is interoperability with other messaging platforms, a move WhatsApp engineering director Dick Brouwer explains in an interview with Wired.The ...
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Two Texas companies were behind the AI Joe Biden robocalls

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Lingo Telecom and Life Corporation are linked to a robocall campaign that used an AI voice...
Lingo Telecom and Life Corporation are linked to a robocall campaign that used an AI voice clone of President Joe Biden to persuade New Hampshire voters not to vote, said New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella during a press conference on Tuesday. Authorities have issued cease-and-desist orders as well as subp...
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The first Reddit reviews of the Vision Pro are in

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If you spend $3,500 on a laptop, it’s a near guarantee you know exactly what you’re...
If you spend $3,500 on a laptop, it’s a near guarantee you know exactly what you’re getting and you’re probably going to be happy with it. But you have to... think different when you spend that kind of money on a new platform like the Vision Pro, Apple’s “spatial computer” that does a lot of rethinking about how fac...
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How bad is Tesla's hazardous waste problem in California?

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Allegations that Tesla mishandled hazardous waste point to a systemic failure at the company’s California facilities....
Allegations that Tesla mishandled hazardous waste point to a systemic failure at the company’s California facilities. This was no simple accident or one-off event. No less than 25 counties sued Tesla this week for allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste. Within a couple days, the Elon Musk-led company agree...
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'There is no such thing as a real picture,' says Samsung exec

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How does Samsung defend itself against the notion that its phone cameras are spitting out fake...
How does Samsung defend itself against the notion that its phone cameras are spitting out fake AI photos of not only the Moon, but most anything else you’d care to aim them at these days? For starters, the company’s head of product is saying that every photo is fake. Samsung EVP Patrick Chomet told TechRadar recentl...
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Hey Google, I was using that button

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Every time another Google app or feature bites the dust — even a small, relatively inconsequential...
Every time another Google app or feature bites the dust — even a small, relatively inconsequential one — I get annoyed. Really annoyed.Here’s the thing: there are Google Assistant-equipped devices in three rooms of my relatively small house: living room, bedroom, and office. Which means, unfortunately, that when I s...
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Google's CEO faces employee questions about layoffs

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Google Search's cache links are officially being retired

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Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison...
Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decide...
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Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold

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Snap gave up on its Pixy flying selfie camera drone after just four months, but it...
Snap gave up on its Pixy flying selfie camera drone after just four months, but it turns out the company sold under 71,000 drones — and now the company is recalling every one of those drones because their batteries pose a fire hazard. Yes, the entire drone is being recalled, not just the removable battery, likely be...
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Google Maps is getting 'supercharged' with generative AI

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Google is bringing generative AI to — where else? — Google Maps, promising to help users...
Google is bringing generative AI to — where else? — Google Maps, promising to help users find cool places through the use of large language models (LLM). The feature will answer queries for restaurant or shopping recommendations, for example, using its LLM to “analyze Maps’ detailed information about more than 250 m...
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Google inks major new offshore wind deal

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Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in...
Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in Europe, signing power purchase agreements to support two new wind farms off the coast of the Netherlands. It’s part of Google’s plan to match all of its data center electricity consumption with clean energy generation on a...
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Amazon left Roomba with a huge mess to clean up

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Amazon backing out of its deal to buy iRobot due to regulatory issues may feel like...
Amazon backing out of its deal to buy iRobot due to regulatory issues may feel like a win for privacy advocates, but it could be a death knell for the Roomba robot vacuum as we know it.On the face of it, the objection from the European Commission that the deal was anti-competitive is cruelly ironic for iRobot, a fou...
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Hulu is cracking down on password sharing, just like Disney Plus and Netflix

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Hulu has just laid the groundwork to kick friends, family, and freeloaders off its streaming service...
Hulu has just laid the groundwork to kick friends, family, and freeloaders off its streaming service unless they pay for their own accounts. This week, the company revised its Terms of Service to explicitly ban password sharing outside of “your primary personal residence,” and it’s begun to tell subscribers they’ll ...
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Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables

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Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off

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Google spent $2.1 billion on severance and other expenses as it laid off more than 12,000...
Google spent $2.1 billion on severance and other expenses as it laid off more than 12,000 employees over the course of 2023. And the layoff charges keep coming: in just the one month of 2024 so far, the company has already spent $700 million on employee severance charges as part of layoffs targeting another 1,000-pl...
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Elon Musk won't get his $55B pay package after all

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Elon Musk isn’t going to get that $55 billion pay package after all, a Delaware Court...
Elon Musk isn’t going to get that $55 billion pay package after all, a Delaware Court of Chancery judge has ruled. The ruling means Tesla’s board will need to come up with a new proposal. The ruling threatens Musk’s fortune if it makes it through an appeal, Bloomberg reports. Without the options in that package, Mus...
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Jack Dorsey's Block is also cutting jobs

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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not

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There’s a lot of pressure on the new Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s long-awaited entry into the...
There’s a lot of pressure on the new Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s long-awaited entry into the world of computers you wear on your face. Apple claims that the Vision Pro, which starts at $3,499, is the beginning of something called “spatial computing,” which basically boils down to running apps all around you. And the c...
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The $10T benefits of overhauling our food system

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One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental,...
One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental, and economic losses of business as usual. It also outlines what governments can do to reap trillions of dollars’ worth of benefits by producing food more sustainably. All in all, the damages caused by the curren...
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Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new

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A few minutes ago, I opened the new Arc Search app and typed, “What happened in...
A few minutes ago, I opened the new Arc Search app and typed, “What happened in the Chiefs game?” That game, the AFC Championship, had just wrapped up. Normally, I’d Google it, click on a few links, and read about the game that way. But in Arc Search, I typed the query and tapped the “Browse for me” button instead. ...
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