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OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s giving its image-generation tool a bit more artistic flair, announcing the launch of ChatGPT Images 2.5, an update to ChatGPT Images 2.0 that debuted in April. According to OpenAI, the new tool is able to generate images with “more natural lighting and richer textures” than before, and is better at following user’s instructions “across multiple turns.” It’s much faster than before, too, capable of generating images up to 50% faster, and there’s a new tool called Sketch, which lets people sketch out images using their finger on a touchscreen to use as a reference…

The window for defenders to get ahead of AI-enabled cyberattacks is narrowing. OpenAI has committed $1 billion in subsidized Daybreak access, training, technical support, and partnerships, targeting the support to be used over the next six months. The global initiative prioritizes resource-constrained defenders protecting water and electricity systems, local governments, community banks, nonprofits, and open-source software. For IT leaders, Daybreak provides another way to find and fix vulnerabilities faster, either through OpenAI or participating security vendors. However, access to its more sensitive capabilities requires additional verification and oversight. Eligible state and local governments, critical-infrastructure operators, nonprofits, open-source maintainers, and supporting…

Jessica Uhl. (T-Mobile Photo) — Telecom giant T-Mobile announced that Jessica Uhl will join as chief financial officer-designate later this month, and succeed Peter Osvaldik as CFO in February. Uhl served as CFO of Shell and worked for the global oil and energy giant for more than 17 years. She joins T-Mobile from GE Vernova, where she was president. “I am thrilled to welcome Jessica to T-Mobile,” Srini Gopalan, president and CEO of T-Mobile said in a statement. “She brings deep financial and strategic acumen, capital allocation expertise and an innovative growth mindset that is a perfect fit for T-Mobile’s…

Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual competition that—parodying the Nobel Prizes—recognizes some of the world’s most unusual scientific studies. The organization Improbable Research has been hosting the event since 1991 with the aim of showing that science also has a humorous side in its quest to meaningfully answer questions about the world.This year the ceremony was held in Zurich, Switzerland, and recognized 10 research projects ranging from an attempt to scientifically define what a kiss is to an experiment that used buried underwear to assess…

Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik Inc. today announced Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection, a backup and recovery capability for Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon Web Services Inc. The target is a gap Rubrik argues native tooling leaves open. Iceberg snapshots are metadata pointers rather than copies, so a table that gets deleted, encrypted by ransomware or overwritten by a misfiring artificial intelligence agent takes its snapshot history down with it. Restoring the underlying files does not rebuild the catalog entry. Data teams are left reassembling table metadata by hand before anything will run a query again. Rubrik Apache…

The extra money for cellular won’t be worth it for some. Raditya/Getty Images Choosing the best Apple Watch isn’t just about picking colors and bands. You also need to ask yourself whether you need an Apple Watch GPS or GPS + Cellular. No matter which one you choose, you’ll have the same key features of the Apple Watch. Both can monitor your health and track your workouts. But choosing an Apple Watch GPS + Cellular gives you a few extra perks. For instance, maybe you’d like to do more without having to worry about carrying your iPhone…

Marketers have long sought visibility as a way to elevate their brand. But choosing heightened visibility at the sacrifice of credibility is a wrong choice, Wil Reynolds says.

In 1906, in response to public outcry that came after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle detailed the revolting conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking plants, the US government passed the Federal Meat Inspection Act. The legislation created what would become known as the Food Safety and Inspection Service, a force of federal employees who would spend their days in stockyards and packing plants, checking livestock for disease both before and after their slaughter. They did their work organoleptically—with their eyes, noses, and hands—an approach soon dubbed “poke and sniff.” This 100 percent testing method worked well enough for spotting the lesions that signaled…

Xiaomi took the wraps off its new foldable phone at IFA in Berlin and while I could only see it on a stand behind glass at first, I later managed to actually get my hands on the thing and have a brief play. It’s a nice-feeling foldable with a passport-style foldable that I absolutely love. Problem is, it’s got some stiff competition from both Samsung and Apple.  According to most rumors, Apple will be unveiling its first folding iPhone, likely named the iPhone Ultra, at its event on Sept. 9. Those same rumors suggest that Apple’s foldable will also have…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. “Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium’s own Secure Preferences integrity values,” SOCRadar said. “A native-messaging tool then extends it beyond browser telemetry to host-level command execution and file management.” Once installed, the PEEP “extension” agent polls its command-and-control (C2) server (“206.237.30[.]232” or “xfjcc[.]fun”) every 30 seconds over plaintext HTTP for new commands, while exfiltrating browsing history, active-tab…