Month: March 2025

People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images

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Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google’s new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images published by Getty Images and other well-known stock media outfits. Last week, Google expanded access to its Gemini 2.0 Flash model’s image generation feature, which lets the model natively generate and edit … Read more

Jews in Space: The Beginning of Sci-Fi Race

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Back to basics. “Jews in Space” is one of the most influential articles about science fiction that I’ve ever come across. Now, here’s the thing. Good luck with finding the “patient zero.” I mean, the very first article published. If you’re DYOR, then you’re going to stumble upon some version of it. Just like I … Read more

Educational Byte: Decentralized Escrow—What It Is and Why You Should Use It

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“Escrow” has been a security measure in traditional finances for a while, long before the appearance of cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems. The point was opposite to decentralization, indeed: escrow implies middlemen. A trusted third party, often a company, mediates between two strangers and keeps the funds involved in their trade safe until it’s complete. That … Read more

Burning quantum-vulnerable BTC is the best option — Jameson Lopp

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Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin (BTC) custody company Casa, recently argued against allowing quantum recovery of lost BTC and said that burning these coins to protect the integrity of the protocol was the preferable option. According to Lopp, allowing individuals or institutions with quantum computers to recover lost coins violates the Bitcoin … Read more

I Told My Team to Complain Every Week—It Transformed Our Productivity

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Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash More than a decade ago, I had the opportunity to take a Total Quality Management (TQM) course by none other than Andrzej Blikle at ASBIRO, a unique Polish educational institution where only entrepreneurs teach entrepreneurship. Since then, I’ve been testing and refining various TQM techniques with my teams, especially … Read more

The head of a Biden program that could help rural broadband has left

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Evan Feinman is out as the director of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, reports ProPublica’s Craig Silverman in a Bluesky post today. BEAD aims to bring high-bandwidth internet to underserved areas of America, much of which is rural. Silverman shared screenshots from a department-wide email Feinman sent on Friday, in … Read more

Mal-Where? How We Boosted Malware Detection to XG-ceptional Levels

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:::info Authors: (1) S M Rakib Hasan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (sm.rakib.hasan@g.bracu.ac.bd); (2) Aakar Dhakal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (aakar.dhakal@g.bracu.ac.bd). ::: Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Literature Review III. Methodology IV. Results and Discussion V. Conclusion and Future Work, and … Read more