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Google's New AI Image Model 'Bananas' Is Here: How to Edit Your Photos With Gemini

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 15:00:03

Google wants you to ditch Photoshop for Gemini. A new generative AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, upgrades Gemini's ability to edit your photos natively in the Gemini app. It's available now for all Gemini users, free and paying, and is rolling out in preview this week in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. A recent preview version of the new model on LMArena sparked interest from Gemini fans, even though the model only ranked seventh as of Monday, behind leaders like OpenAI's i

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Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-26 15:00:00

Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos, a step meant to catch up with OpenAI’s popular image tools and draw users from ChatGPT. The update, called Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, rolls out starting Tuesday to all users in the Gemini app, as well as to developers via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI platforms. Gemini’s new AI image model is designed to make more precise edits to images — based on natural languag

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New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 19:34:57

Researchers have developed a novel attack that steals user data by injecting malicious prompts in images processed by AI systems before delivering them to a large language model. The method relies on full-resolution images that carry instructions invisible to the human eye but become apparent when the image quality is lowered through resampling algorithms. Developed by Trail of Bits researchers Kikimora Morozova and Suha Sabi Hussain, the attack builds upon a theory presented in a 2020 USENIX

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Trump Says China Convinced the World ‘Let’s All Do Magnets’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-27 23:45:44

Donald Trump was all over the place during two press conferences at the White House on Monday, where he rambled about his fascist vision for the country. But there were some points of levity, including when the president tried to explain how China became a leader in rare earth minerals. Or at least that’s what we think he was talking about. “China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets,” Trump said. “Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20

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You should update your iPhone, iPad, and Mac ASAP to fix this dangerous security flaw

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-28 02:41:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has patched a serious security flaw on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Patch fixes a flaw that could allow an attacker to install spyware. The flaw has been exploited in the wild against targeted individuals. I know you're probably tired of constantly updating your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to fix one issue or another. But there's yet another update that you'll definitely want to install. And h

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You can now add AI images directly into LibreOffice documents - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-28 03:25:38

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways There's a new LibreOffice extension for AI-generated images. The extension uses AI Horde to generate images. Images are automatically placed in your document. Although I don't use AI for image generation, I know a lot of people who do. Some of those people regularly work with documents and need the ability to quickly insert AI-generated images into those documents. Last w

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MagSafe Monday: Want a no‑nonsense car mount that keeps your air vents clear?

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-28 07:00:00

If you want a simple car mount that works with MagSafe and doesn’t take over your air vents, your choices are pretty limited. The Statik HyperMount Vacuum Car Mount is a great choice. It sticks to your dash or windshield, holds tight, and doesn’t budge even on bumpy roads and around corners. Some of my favorite gear Abode Home Security System Abode is the best home security system and includes compatibility with HomeKit. MagSafe Monday: Every Monday, Bradley Chambers looks at the latest and gr

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What Is the Magnetic Constant, and Why Does It Matter?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-10-27 14:30:00

This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the third. How do physicists deal with this? We define the speed of light as exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. (How do we know it’s exact? Because we define a meter as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.) Then we measure the magnetic constant (μ 0 ) and use that value along with the speed of light to calculate the electric constant (ε 0 ). Maybe that seems like cheating, but to

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Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 20:05:38

Prediction-Encoded Pixels This format is specifically designed to be for low-color pixel art (<=16 colors works best, up to 256 colors is supported). It uses "Prediction by Partial Matching, Order-2" compression, which is able to compress packed-palette-indices smaller than GIF, PNG, and QOI, while sacrificing a bit of time. It's 2-10x slower than GIF/PNG/QOI (depending on the image), but often compresses the image 20-50% smaller than GIF/PNG (and multiple-times smaller than QOI). If you care

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SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 14:29:02

SmallJS is a free and open source implementation of the elegant and powerful Smalltalk-80 (ST) language. It compiles to JavaScript (JS) that runs in modern browsers or in Node.js. SmallJS is file based, not image based, so you can develop in your favorite IDE. The default setup is for Visual Studio Code, with ST syntax coloring and step debugging! You code separately from the SmallJS base libraries (image) and only the parts you use are imported automatically when running your app. SmallJS is

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Show HN: Bicyclopedia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 07:15:26

Welcome! This is an interactive exploration of the parts of a bicycle. If you're reading this message, the images may still be loading. If you are using a screen reader or have Javascript disabled, unfortunately you won't be able to see the images or animations of the parts, but you can still read the descriptions and source code here and read more about this project here. Thank you for visiting!

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-10-29 07:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

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What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-10-29 11:30:00

This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the third. How do physicists deal with this? We define the speed of light as exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. (How do we know it’s exact? Because we define a meter as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.) Then we measure the magnetic constant (μ 0 ) and use that value along with the speed of light to calculate the electric constant (ε 0 ). Maybe that seems like cheating, but to

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How to Fight Food Noise if It’s Taking Over Your Life, Both IRL and Online

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 18:00:00

If you’ve ever found your mind consumed with constant thoughts about food, chances are you have experienced food noise. It's usually brought on by conflicting messages about nutrition, either through everyday conversation or content online. It could be feeling guilty because you ate a cupcake when you promised yourself you weren’t going to touch sweets for a while, or maybe you’re trying to meet your protein quota and are obsessively keeping track of it. These thoughts are common, and in some ca

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Exploring EXIF (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 06:25:58

← Harley Turan • August 2023 August 2023 Exploring EXIF According to iOS’ Photos application, I’ve taken 73,281 photos over the past 14 years of owning an iPhone. Each one of those images doesn't just contain the photo you see as you scroll through the Photos app — it contains a wealth of information stored encoded directly into the image file itself. It details useful metadata such as where the photo was taken (so that you can view your photos on a map at a later date), the time and date the

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Line scan camera image processing for train photography

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Lawrence Lu 2025-10-29 03:09:21

I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff. But there’s a lot that goes into properly processing the images. FIGURE 2 A cool train, the Renfe AVE Class 102, nicknamed Pato because of its duck bill-like appearance. FIGURE 4 Nice CRH6A intercity electric multiple unit. 1 Principle of operation The way it works is that the camera has a single column of pixels (or in this case, two columns), that scans at a super high speed. The camaera is stationary, but as a tra

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Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-29 19:41:31

Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced Friday in a post on Threads. Wang says Meta’s research teams will collaborate with Midjourney to bring its technology into future AI models and products. “To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach,” Wang said. “This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap,

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Belkin’s first 25W Qi2 chargers power up multiple devices

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-31 03:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After announcing certification from the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) a month ago, Belkin is now debuting its first three devices that support the Qi2.2 standard and faster 25W wireless charging speeds. The UltraCharge Pro 3-in-1 is available in sand and c

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Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands' products

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 23:29:43

Since it was announced in June, Trump Mobile has committed to an increasingly-surreal smoke-and-mirrors approach to its promised T1 smartphone. Despite the initial claims that the phone would be made in the United States, it seemed highly unlikely from the start that it was accurate. The "Made in USA" claims were quietly removed from the Trump Mobile website at a later date. AppleInsider spotted the latest bizarre wrinkle to this story, which is that the actual phone still does not exist. The p

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Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes

news.ycombinator.com Anant Bhasin 2025-10-28 18:43:31

QR codes are everywhere. They’re incredibly functional, connecting our physical and digital worlds with a simple scan. But let's be honest: most of them are an eyesore. The standard black-and-white pixelated square often feels like a necessary evil that disrupts an otherwise beautiful design. The common solution has been to leverage the QR code's built-in error correction to place a logo in the center. While functional, it’s still an overlay—a sticker on top of the data. We thought, what if the

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Honor's Shimmering Magic V Flip 2 Has Arrived to Outshine Samsung's Galaxy Flip

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 22:28:00

Honor has unveiled a new flip phone in China, and the company is billing it as, "the ultimate selfie device." The Magic V Flip 2 includes an ultra-wide portrait mode, AI photography features and a playful, sparkly design. The Magic V Flip 2 adds another device to Honor's increasing lineup of foldable phones. So far, it's only releasing the Magic V Flip 2 in China, starting on Aug. 28. It will sell for RMB 5,499 or about $766 USD. The Magic V Flip2 appears to be geared toward influencers and fa

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Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-02 03:58:43

No one stays on top forever. It’s a lesson that Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk may be painfully learning about. The Danish pharmaceutical company has enacted a hiring freeze—the latest sign of a sinking financial outlook for the once-titan of the obesity treatment world. Reuters reported on the hiring freeze Wednesday. The company has faced numerous setbacks in recent months, including billions shaved off its stock market value and continued competition from cheaper, compounded versions of its bloc

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Update your iPhone, iPad, and Mac ASAP to fix this dangerous security flaw - here's why

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-02 08:30:27

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has patched a serious security flaw on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Patch fixes a flaw that could allow an attacker to install spyware. The flaw has been exploited in the wild against targeted individuals. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I know you're probably tired of constantly updating your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to fix one issue or another. But there's yet anothe

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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 11:20:53

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often scale down large images before sending them to the model: when scaled, these images can reveal prompt injections that are not visible at full resolution. In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers c

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This Anker 5K magnetic power bank is 30 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-02 17:40:37

The last thing anyone wants at the end of a long day is to look down at their phone and see its battery almost dead. One way to avoid that is to keep a compact power bank on you at all times, and it's arguably easiest to do that with one like Anker's 621 MagGo portable battery. This sleek, 5K magnetic brick attaches to the back of your iPhone to power it up, even while you're still using it. Now, it's on sale for 30 percent off — you can pick up any of five coloways for only $28 a pop. This is

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Google Thinks AI Can Make You a Better Photographer: I Dive Into the Pixel 10 Cameras

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 17:00:13

If a company releases new phone models but doesn't change the cameras, would anyone pay attention? Fortunately that's not the case with Google's new Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro Fold phones, which make a few advancements in the hardware -- hello, telephoto camera on the base-level Pixel for the first time -- and also in the software that runs it all, with generative AI playing an even bigger role than it has before. "This is the first year where not only are we able to achieve some i

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Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 03:21:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is getting a swiping mechanism to keep or delete photos, and we got it working. With this, you will be able to weed out unwanted photos by swiping left on them. It currently lets you keep or delete images and videos from daily or monthly clusters in the Google Photos app. Among the many reasons to use Google Photos is the ease of backing up valuable memories to Drive and accessing them across multiple devices. But enabling automatic upl

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The Pixel 10 Pro’s 100x zoom is Google’s most controversial use of AI yet — here’s why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 04:00:17

Google loves AI, and it’s doubled down on the tech with every new Pixel generation. But this year’s Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL take things to another level, introducing a diffusion model to upscale images from the phone’s conservative 5x optical zoom into telescopic-length 100x photos. Google is no stranger to computational photography or AI-assisted imaging — features like Add Me and Astrophotography mode laid the groundwork for its ongoing evolution. However, the introduction of diffusion models

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Trippy Image From Deep Space Shows Earth and Moon From 180 Million Miles Away

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-03 03:00:34

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the probe looked back at its home planet and captured a rare view of Earth, accompanied by its Moon, as a mere speck engulfed by the dark void of space. NASA’s Psyche mission launched on October 13, 2023, and is assigned to explore a distant target in the main asteroid belt that’s believed to be the exposed core of a protoplanet. Before it reaches its destination, the imaging te

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The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-11-03 00:53:47

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums. By: Samuel Jay Keyser A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Made at the high point of Kline, de Kooning, and Pollock, Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” was a poke in the eye of abstract expressionism. Not only was it blatantly mimetic, but it was being blatantl

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Google's New AI Image Model 'Bananas' Is Here: How to Edit Your Photos With Gemini

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Exploring EXIF (2023)

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Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models

Belkin’s first 25W Qi2 chargers power up multiple devices

Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands' products

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Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

The Pixel 10 Pro’s 100x zoom is Google’s most controversial use of AI yet — here’s why

Trippy Image From Deep Space Shows Earth and Moon From 180 Million Miles Away

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

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