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Google Deepmind gives Gemini 3 Flash the ability to actively explore images through code

Google Deepmind extends Gemini 3 Flash with "Agentic Vision": The model can actively zoom, crop, and manipulate images by generating and executing Python code - instead of just passively processing ...
The New York Times

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. By Kate Conger Dylan Freedman and Stuart A. Thompson ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’

AI tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now create strikingly realistic video. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a film made almost entirely with AI. Watch the film and ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model

OpenAI is rolling out a new version of ChatGPT Images that promises better instruction-following, more precise editing, and up to 4x faster image generation speeds. The new model, dubbed GPT Image 1.5 ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the dramatic call for a “code red” last week to beat back a rising threat from Google, he put a notable priority at the top of his list of fixes. The world’s most ...
Hackaday

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...
GitHub

A Style is Worth One Code: Unlocking Code-to-Style Image Generation with Discrete Style Space

This repository offers the official code of the paper "A Style is Worth One Code: Unlocking Code-to-Style Image Generation with Discrete Style Space". We provide both an Open-Source Version (based on ...
IEEE

Automated Refactoring of Non-Idiomatic Python Code With Pythonic Idioms

Abstract: Compared to other programming languages (e.g., Java), Python has more idioms to make Python code concise and efficient. Although Pythonic idioms are well accepted in the Python community, ...
maketecheasier.com

Google Colab Allows You to Write and Run Python Code in Your Browser – Getting Started Guide

Google Colab, also known as Colaboratory, is a free online tool from Google that lets you write and run Python code directly in your browser. It works like Jupyter Notebook but without the hassle of ...
Bleeping Computer

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...