The Washington Post

Stand-alone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool

LONDON — After X announced that it had disabled, in some locations, a controversial Grok tool that allows users to digitally undress photos of real people, the tool remains functional on the ...
The Washington Post

X responds to outcry over Grok’s sexual images by charging users to create them

Grok, the AI chatbot on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is limiting image generation and editing capabilities to paying subscribers amid a global outcry from officials and users over the tool ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 15 Stunning Microscopic Snowflake Images Helped Change the Way We See the World

Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each has its own pattern Kayla Randall - Digital Editor, Museums Snowflakes form ...
Gizmodo

People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children

Did you spend the holidays engaging in quality time with your loved ones and catching up with friends and family, or (like a disturbing number of X users) did you spend it asking Grok to manipulate ...
TechRepublic

Google to Finally Let Users Change Their Gmail Address. Here’s How It Works

Google to Finally Let Users Change Their Gmail Address. Here’s How It Works Your email has been sent Many Gmail users have lived with email addresses they picked as teenagers. Now, Google is offering ...
Washington Examiner

‘Retreat mode’: ACLU’s top transgender litigator talks of compromise amid image change

Chase Strangio, the American Civil Liberties Union‘s go-to transgender lawyer for litigating its top LGBT cases before the Supreme Court, came out as binary-conforming after years of identifying as ...
MacRumors

ChatGPT Gets Apple Music Integration and New Image Generator

OpenAI added several new features to its flagship ChatGPT product today, introducing Apple Music support and upgraded image generation capabilities. ChatGPT has supported app integrations since ...
Bleeping Computer

GhostPoster attacks hide malicious JavaScript in Firefox addon logos

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...
CNN

Trump’s face will replace images of national parks on some annual passes, environmental group sues to stop change

The Trump administration is ruffling more feathers with some fans of America’s national parks — this time by replacing images of the picturesque parks on some annual passes with an image of President ...
Engadget

Google limits free Nano Banana Pro image generation usage due to 'high demand'

If you were hoping to create some silly images this long holiday weekend with Google's new Nano Banana Pro model, I have some bad news: the company is restricting free usage of the AI system. In a ...
The New York Times

Vietnam’s Year of Floods, Mud and Death

Scientists suggested that climate change could make central Vietnam a global hot spot for destructive storms. This year has seemed to prove the point. Scientists suggested that climate change could ...
The Conversation

Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right

Philippa Collin receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Telstra Foundation, Google AU/NZ, batyr, Sydney Childrens Hospital Network and the Young and Resilient Research Centre (WSU), ...