Chrome introduces new ‘Performance’ tools to wrangle the tabs gobbling up your memory

Google is introducing some new Chrome storage management features to help you manage runaway tabs more easily. The updates include new “performance issue notifications” and some tweaks to the existing memory saver mode, which already tries to free up the resources of inactive tabs in the background. The new warnings appear when a new performance … Read more

Microsoft and OpenAI are giving news outlets $10 million to use AI tools

Microsoft and OpenAI announced they are offering up to $10 million ($2.5 million in cash plus $2.5 million in “software and corporate credits” from each) to a select group of media companies, to try out AI tools in the newsroom. The first round of financing is underway News day, The Minnesota Star Tribune, The Philadelphia … Read more

The Internet Archive hackers still have access to its internal emailing tools

It is disheartening to see that even after being made aware of the breach two weeks ago, IA still did not do due diligence to rotate many of the API keys that were exposed in their Gitlab secrets. As shown in this message, this includes a Zendesk token with permissions to access over 800,000 support … Read more

Adobe demos Illustrator tools that rotate vectors and finish sketches

Adobe has been working on experimental technology that could help speed up concept and planning work for graphic designers and audio engineers. The “sneaks” previewed during Adobe's MAX event include tools to transform sketches into a variety of sophisticated designs, as well as a feature to rotate 2D artwork as if it were 3D -Object. … Read more

Adobe teases AI tools for animating text and removing distractions

Adobe is introducing some experimental AI tools for animation, imaging, and cleaning of videos and photos that could eventually be added to its Creative Cloud apps. Although the tools apply to very different mediums, all three share a similar goal: to automate most of the tedious, complex tasks required to create content and give creators … Read more

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