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A French startup acclaimed for a Barbie selfie generator has raised $43mn round at a $500mn valuation in a showcase for meme magic. Paris-based Photoroom raised the eye-popping sums in a Series B round led by Balderton Capital and French VC Aglaé Ventures. Y-Combinator also contributed to the cash injection, which brings Photoroom’s total funding to a cool $64mn. The startup claims to have developed the world’s most popular AI photo editor. Since launching in 2019, the app has been downloaded…

In short, this vulnerability requires a specific set of conditions to be exploitable. An attacker would need the ability to direct the system to boot from an HTTP source, which could involve compromising a server or executing a man-in-the-middle attack. Then, to exploit it, the attacker would have to overcome several hurdles, such as gaining physical access to the device or administrative control; it's not out of the realm of possibility, especially if the attacker has already breached the network perimeter. So, how…

Online dating can be a minefield. Your feelings can get hurt. Your confidence can be shaken. Your time can be wasted. And you can wander into a maelstrom of murder, arson, and identity theft that leaves you questioning your previously established reality. This is the point at which a situation morphs from social annoyance to Netflix true crime documentary. Lover, Stalker, Killer, whose title practically screams “edgy true crime doc!,” is a sort of tech-age cautionary tale about what can happen when you go looking…

Since the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945, more than 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted by eight countries: the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea.Groups such as the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization are constantly on the lookout for new tests.However, for reasons of safety and secrecy, modern nuclear tests are carried out underground – which makes them difficult to detect. Often, the only indication they have…

Created by Ben Kirby, PreachersNSneakers is an online project that juxtaposes religious authority with materialism.With a knack for spotting designer labels and their hefty price tags, it offers a glimpse into the world of faith and fashion by pairing images of pastors sporting high-end clothing items and their eye-watering costs.In an age of appearances, these figures continue to talk about modesty and self-sacrifice, however, their words begin to sound a little different when you realize that the price of their fit…

The leak was independently confirmed by cybersecurity researcher Jamieson O’Reilly, founder of cybersecurity firm Dvuln.“Considering the exposure lasted for at least 681 days, it’s plausible that external attackers discovered and utilised these keys,” he said.Football Australia CEO James Johnson: The soccer organisation has suffered a mass cybersecurity incident.Credit: James Brickwood“This data is highly sensitive, particularly the personally identifiable information of players and the infrastructure scripts, which could…

Ever since ChatGPT emerged, debates have broken out globally on the opportunities and obstacles that have arisen courtesy of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Privacy and security have been some of the biggest concerns, with nations insisting on safeguards against AI to protect citizens. However, threat actors still seem to get past them. In a recent incident, ChatGPT leaked several private conversations in an unrelated chat. Here's what happened.ChatGPT leakAs per a report by ArsTechnica, one of their readers…

Last year, I met with the head of sustainability at a large software vendor. He was touting his company’s commitment to becoming carbon net-zero by 2030 – balancing its responsibility for the production of greenhouse gases with an equal commitment to the removal of such gases (mainly carbon dioxide, or CO2) from the atmosphere. Many companies – both software vendors as well as a broad spectrum of organizations across industries – have a similar promise. There are two sides to this commitment: reduction of the amount of…

Family relationships can be difficult to navigate as they are, not to mention when discrimination-related issues arise.This redditor wasn’t close to his kin, which is why he seemingly wasn’t too upset over his cousin not being able to make it to his wedding on the other side of the country. But the cousin sure was and blamed the OP for discriminating against them, which resulted in an even bigger altercation after the groom-to-be revealed what cruel prank the cousin had pulled on the OP’s girlfriend in the past.In order…

During lockdown in 2020, Lainey Molnar started expressing her personal experiences as a woman, and over the years, her visual works on difficult social topics have garnered widespread attention and acclaim.Now, the artist with well over a million followers on social media is back with another thought-provoking series.Titled 'Imagine a World Like This,' it cleverly inverts gender roles and exposes the hypocritical double standards against women."This took me several days to illustrate, and when they were done and I…