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Meta is walking back a feature it barely had time to announce. The company this week enabled AI image generation using content from public Instagram accounts, simply by tagging them — no permission required from the original creator. After swift and pointed backlash, Meta has turned it off, a reminder that moving fast with generative AI tools still carries real social consequences.
On the security front, a story making the rounds asks a surprisingly practical question: what happens when someone photographs your house keys and owns a three-D printer? The answer, according to cybersecurity researchers, is that a functional duplicate can be produced with alarming ease. It is a low-tech vulnerability dressed up in modern tools, and it applies to anyone who has ever posted a photo of their keys online.
And for the hardware curious, developers have been digging into the PlayStation Portable's largely forgotten dual-core architecture. Sony shipped the device with a second processor that was essentially locked away from developers for years. Researchers are now unlocking that capability, squeezing new performance from hardware that is nearly two decades old.
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