Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld. From @theverge. #Nintendo #Pokemon #IP #Patent #Pocketpair #Palworld #Tech #Technology https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248602/nintendo-pokemon-palworld-pocketpair-patent-infringement-lawsuit
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Apple has asked a federal court in San Francisco to drop its three-year-old case against spyware company NSO, citing worries about disclosing its own sensitive data during discovery. By @9to5mac. #Apple #NSO #Cybersecurity #Tech #Technology #Spyware https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/13/apple-wants-to-revoke-its-three-year-old-lawsuit-against-spyware-group/
Sub.club is here to help the fediverse make money.
From @theverge: "The idea is that this will let users on ActivityPub-based platforms like Mastodon easily offer paid subscriptions and premium content while taking a 6 percent cut in addition to payment processing fees. It could solve a big problem with the fediverse right now: it’s not easy to make a living on it unless you direct your followers back to existing platforms like Patreon."
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With the next generation of AI photo editing tools built into the Google’s flagship Pixel 9 family, our basic assumptions about photographs capturing a reality we can believe in are about to be seriously tested — and @theverge shows us why.
“An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds to create each of these images with the Reimagine tool in the Pixel 9’s Magic Editor. They are crisp. They are in full color. They are high-fidelity. There is no suspicious background blur, no tell-tale sixth finger. These photographs are extraordinarily convincing, and they are all extremely f---ing fake.” Take a look at the pictures for yourself as The Verge ponders the implications of these new capabilities.
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With generative AI imaging tools getting increasingly sophisticated and all-the-more accessible, it’s getting harder to trust the pictures we see online — but the tech is out there to put an end to the doubt.
C2PA is a picture authentication standard that uses additional metadata to highlight any fakery that's taken place, but it’s taking years for the key players to get on board and make it happen. @theverge looks at what’s needed to get there.
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While the debate about which smartphone brand offers the best camera performance is unlikely to be settled any time soon, the winners of the 17th iPhone Photography Awards certainly make for impressive viewing.
TechRadar has pulled together the 46 winners across 15 categories — some of which used phones as old as 2015’s iPhone 6S to take their winning snaps, proving the old adage that “the best camera is the one you have with you” may well be a cliché, but it’s also true.
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Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature, which stores a timeline of activity snapshots on your PC, has a new release date.
Microsoft unveiled the feature to much fanfare at Build 2024 in May, only to delay it indefinitely after security researchers called the feature a “privacy nightmare.” Now, having added some extra security measures, the company has said it will roll out Recall to beta testers using Copilot+ PCs in October. @engadget@press.coop has more.
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