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I Took Photoshop's Generative AI for a Spin. These Are the Tools That Stuck Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 18:00:04

Photoshop is all in on generative AI, and it wants you to give it a whirl, too. Adobe has added a number of AI features to its premiere photo editor over the past few years; if you use Photoshop regularly, you've probably seen these pop up on your task bars. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, so I had to put the original photo editor's AI to the test. AI might not be right for every project, especially for professional creators who regularly use

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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

news.ycombinator.com Hua Hsu 2026-02-19 06:07:57

On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their schoolwork. When I first met Alex, last year, he was interested in a career in the arts, and he devoted a lot of his free time to photo shoots with his friends. But he had recently decided on a more practical path: he wanted to become a C.P.A. His Thursdays were busy, and he had forty-five minutes u

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Biologists Uncover Previously Unknown Structure Hiding Inside Human Cells

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-02-19 23:00:57

Even after decades of peering into cells, biologists are still finding surprises. In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed the hemifusome. This tiny membrane-bound structure serves as a cellular recycling center and may hold the key to treating several genetic diseases. The research has been published in Nature Communications. “This is like discovering a new recycling center inside the cell,” co-author Seham E

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Google rolls out Veo 3 video generator, try it for free using credits

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-19 16:38:30

Google is rolling out Veo 3 to everyone using Vertex AI, which is an ML-testing platform provided by Google Cloud. Unlike Sora and other generative video AI models, Veo 3 is a state-of-the-art video generator trained on millions of YouTube videos, and it can generate realistic videos, but great quality comes at a high cost. Veo 3 isn't free, but since it's part of Google Cloud, you can use it for free by subscribing to the $300 trial offered by Google. To get started, you can sign up for a Go

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Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2026-02-19 18:00:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. It has become almost impossible to browse the internet without having an AI-generated video thrust upon you. Open basically any social media platform, and it won’t be long until an uncanny-looking clip of a fake natural disaster or animals doing impossible things slides across your screen. Most of the videos look absolutely terrible.

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The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-02-19 02:30:00

Before Duolingo wiped its videos from TikTok and Instagram in mid-May, social media engagement was one of the language-learning app’s most recognizable qualities. Its green owl mascot had gone viral multiple times and was well known to younger users—a success story other marketers envied. But, when news got out that Duolingo was making the switch to become an “AI-first” company, planning to replace contractors who work on tasks generative AI could automate, public perception of the brand soured

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Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Scott Alexander 2026-02-19 12:13:00

The Story So Far The mid-20th century was the golden age of nurture. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the spirit of the ‘60s convinced most experts that parents, peers, and propaganda were the most important causes of adult personality. Starting in the 1970s, the pendulum swung the other way. Twin studies shocked the world by demonstrating that most behavioral traits - including socially relevant traits like IQ - were substantially genetic. Typical estimates for adult IQ found it was about 60%

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Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect

theverge.com Gus Rick 2026-02-21 23:00:00

Sendi Jia, a designer running her own studio between Beijing, China, and London, England, says she mainly uses AI generators like DALL-E to make fake photos for background panels or websites when her clients don’t have access to real ones. That’s helped clients with limited budgets, but it’s also exposed just how much of the creative process AI can replace. Recently, a potential client working in a university contacted Jia about creating the logo for a new project. Then, they changed their mind.

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“My Malformed Bones” – Harry Crews’s Counterlives

news.ycombinator.com Charlie Lee 2026-02-18 14:50:56

Adjust Share One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact particularly exceptional. This was Bacon County, Georgia, where in those days “it was not unusual for a man to shoot at his wife,” as he wrote in his memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. “It was only unusual if he hit her.” Crews and his older brother heard the shot, which blew the

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"My Malformed Bones" Harry Crews's Counterlives

news.ycombinator.com Charlie Lee 2026-02-18 20:50:56

Adjust Share One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact particularly exceptional. This was Bacon County, Georgia, where in those days “it was not unusual for a man to shoot at his wife,” as he wrote in his memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. “It was only unusual if he hit her.” Crews and his older brother heard the shot, which blew the

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Changing one gene can restore some tissue regeneration to mice

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-22 18:09:26

Regeneration is a trick many animals, including lizards, starfish, and octopuses, have mastered. Axolotls, a salamander species originating in Mexico, can regrow pretty much everything from severed limbs, through eyes and parts of brain, to the spinal cord. Mammals, though, have mostly lost this ability somewhere along their evolutionary path. Regeneration persisted, in a limited number of tissues, in just a few mammalian species like rabbits or goats. “We were trying to learn how certain anima

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Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 06:15:11

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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AMD demo shows procedural generation slashing VRAM use from 35 GB to just 51 KB

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-02-24 12:51:00

Why it matters: Managing graphics memory has become one of the most pressing challenges facing the realm of real-time 3D rendering. As visuals become more detailed, the amount of VRAM required for modern high-end games is pushing against what average customers can afford. AMD and Nvidia are currently developing remedies to the issue, which involve shifting certain rendering tasks from memory to the GPU. A new research paper from AMD explains how procedurally generating certain 3D objects in rea

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AMD demo shows procedural generation cutting VRAM usage from 35GB to 51KB

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-02-24 18:51:00

Why it matters: Managing graphics memory has become one of the most pressing challenges facing the realm of real-time 3D rendering. As visuals become more detailed, the amount of VRAM required for modern high-end games is pushing against what average customers can afford. AMD and Nvidia are currently developing remedies to the issue, which involve shifting certain rendering tasks from memory to the GPU. A new research paper from AMD explains how procedurally generating certain 3D objects in rea

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AI is ruining houseplant communities online

theverge.com Nicole Froio 2026-02-24 18:00:00

“Maybe you could organize your plants like this,” my friend’s text message said, with an attached photo of white pots of plants floating midair in front of a huge, sunny window. As a newbie plant collector, I do need to organize my growing collection of flora, but not like this — the photo was AI-generated and the plants depicted were not real. Even as a beginner, I was able to identify issues with the photo. Obviously, my plants cannot physically defy gravity, but most egregiously, the organiz

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Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 03:26:55

docs: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators There has been an explosion of interest in so called AI code generators. Thus far though, this is has not been matched by a broadly accepted legal interpretation of the licensing implications for code generator outputs. While the vendors may claim there is no problem and a free choice of license is possible, they have an inherent conflict of interest in promoting this interpretation. More broadly there is, as yet, no broad consensus on th

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Goldman Sachs Makes a Huge AI Bet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-03-03 09:45:56

Goldman Sachs has just launched its generative AI assistant across the entire firm, making it available to all employees in what the bank calls a major milestone in its technology strategy. The move follows more than a year of internal development and testing that involved over 10,000 employees piloting the tool. The GS AI Assistant is a conversational AI interface that allows employees to safely interact with large language models like GPT and Gemini, firewalled within Goldman’s own secure com

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Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-06 03:57:22

Any ideas for how we can keep the web (or at least part of it) human? It feels like every time I do a web search, more and more of the results are AI generated nonsense. I'm worried that it's going to become much more difficult to find the human-generated content. How can we keep a part of the web human? Any ideas? (I'm not keen on Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning Orb being the "solution.")

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Virtual cells

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-03 14:18:38

Virtual cells Digital twins of biological cells—often referred to as virtual cells or whole-cell models (WCMs)–aim to recreate every relevant molecular process of a living cell in silico. This interdisciplinary endeavor marries systems biology, computational modeling, high-performance computing, and, increasingly, AI. All models are wrong, but some are alive. Somewhere in a data center right now, a virtual bacterium is dividing for the millionth time. Somewhere else, an AI-enhanced model is l

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Virtual Cells

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-04 08:18:38

Virtual cells Digital twins of biological cells—often referred to as virtual cells or whole-cell models (WCMs)–aim to recreate every relevant molecular process of a living cell in silico. This interdisciplinary endeavor marries systems biology, computational modeling, high-performance computing, and, increasingly, AI. All models are wrong, but some are alive. Somewhere in a data center right now, a virtual bacterium is dividing for the millionth time. Somewhere else, an AI-enhanced model is l

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Midjourney adds AI video generation

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-08 20:25:57

AI company Midjourney has released its first video model. This initial take on AI-generated video will allow users to animate their images, either ones made in Midjourney or uploaded from a different source. The initial results will be five-second clips that a user can opt to extend by four seconds up to four times. Videos can be generated on web only for now and require at least a $10 a month subscription to access. Introducing our V1 Video Model. It's fun, easy, and beautiful. Available at 10

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Christopher Eccleston’s ‘Doctor Who’ Regeneration Remains One of the Show’s Best

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-09 20:00:53

Twenty years ago this week, the first season of the revived era of Doctor Who came to an end with “The Parting of the Ways,” as did the tenure of Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. Ready to sacrifice it all to stop the Daleks, the Ninth Doctor’s final moments remain a vital moment in Doctor Who history. It was the first time in decades since Doctor Who had asked its audience to trust in the magic of the series’ defining trick to survival and re-invention: the magic of regeneration itself. Ec

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Google looks likely to lose appeal against record $4.7 billion EU fine

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-03-10 10:57:19

Google suffered a setback Thursday after an advisor to the European Union's top court recommended it dismiss the tech giant's appeal against a record 4.1-billion-euro ($4.7 billion) antitrust fine. Juliane Kokott, advocate general at the European Court of Justice, advised the court to throw out Google's appeal and confirm the fine, which was reduced in 2022 to 4.125 billion euros from 4.34 billion euros previously by the EU's General Court. "In her Opinion delivered today, Advocate General Kok

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Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-10 11:40:32

Fang The CLI starter kit. A small, experimental library for batteries-included Cobra applications. Features Fancy output : fully styled help and usage pages : fully styled help and usage pages Fancy errors : fully styled errors : fully styled errors Automatic --version : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice Manpages : Adds a hidden man command to generate manpages using mango 1 : Adds a hidden command to generate man

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‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-03-11 03:23:52

Popular AI image generation service Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model V1, marking a pivotal shift for the company from image generation toward full multimedia content creation. Starting today, Midjourney’s nearly 20 million users can animate images via the website, transforming their generated or uploaded stills into 5-second long clips with options for extending the generation longer up to 20 seconds (in 5 second bursts), and guiding them with text. With the launch,

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Deezer says 70% of AI music streams on its service are fake

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-11 16:04:00

In brief: The problem of AI-generated music on streaming platforms being "listened" to by AI is so bad on Deezer, up to seven out of every 10 streams of AI tracks are fraudulent, according to the company. The practice can be a lucrative one: in 2024, a man was arrested over claims that he conned music services out of $12 million using this method. The French streaming giant said that AI-generated music accounts for just 0.5% of streams on the platform. However, its own analysis shows that 70% o

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What happens when you feed AI nothing

theverge.com Franklin Schneider 2026-03-11 21:07:30

If you stumbled across Terence Broad’s AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he’d trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko — the earlier, lighter pieces, before his vision became darker and suffused with doom. Like early-period Rothko, Broad’s AI-generated images consist of simple fields of pure color, but they’re morphing, continuously changing form and hue. But Broad didn’t train his AI on Rothko; he didn’t train it on any data at all. By hack

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells workers: AI will replace some of you

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-12 07:15:00

A hot potato: CEOs love to sing the praises of generative AI while tiptoeing around the fact it's going to cost people their jobs. But Amazon boss Andy Jassy has just said the quiet part out loud, admitting that the technology will reduce the company's corporate workforce over the next few years. In a message sent to employees this week, Jassy said generative AI was a "once-in-a-lifetime" technology that completely changes what's possible for customers and businesses. Jassy went on to highligh

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-12 07:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-12 17:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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I Took Photoshop's Generative AI for a Spin. These Are the Tools That Stuck Out

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

Biologists Uncover Previously Unknown Structure Hiding Inside Human Cells

Google rolls out Veo 3 video generator, try it for free using credits

Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect

“My Malformed Bones” – Harry Crews’s Counterlives

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Changing one gene can restore some tissue regeneration to mice

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AMD demo shows procedural generation slashing VRAM use from 35 GB to just 51 KB

AMD demo shows procedural generation cutting VRAM usage from 35GB to 51KB

AI is ruining houseplant communities online

Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

Goldman Sachs Makes a Huge AI Bet

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Virtual cells

Virtual Cells

Midjourney adds AI video generation

Christopher Eccleston’s ‘Doctor Who’ Regeneration Remains One of the Show’s Best

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Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

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What happens when you feed AI nothing

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

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