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  • An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Abuse Images

    An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Abuse Images

    An influential machine learning dataset—the likes of which has been used to train numerous popular image-generation applications—includes thousands of suspected images of child sexual abuse, a new academic report reveals. The report, put together by Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, says that LAION-5B, a massive tranche of visual media, includes a significant number of illegal abuse…


  • Your Browser Has a Hidden Setting That Will Speed Up the Web

    Your Browser Has a Hidden Setting That Will Speed Up the Web

    A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There’s actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too: Hardware acceleration. While the…