Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger

Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger

Enlarge / A still video capture of X user João Fiadeiro replacing his face with J.D. Vance in a test of Deep-Live-Cam. Over the past few days, a software package called Deep-Live-Cam has been going viral on social media because it can take the face of a person extracted from a single photo and apply…

X faces new challenges in Europe over AI training with personal data

X faces new challenges in Europe over AI training with personal data

After the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Austrian advocacy group NOYB has now filed a complaint against the social media platform X, accusing it of using personal data to train its AI systems without consent. In a statement, NOYB said it has lodged GDPR complaints with data protection authorities in nine countries to ensure the…

GenAI compliance is an oxymoron. Ways to make the best of it

GenAI compliance is an oxymoron. Ways to make the best of it

One of the biggest challenges CIOs face today is reconciling the constant pressure to deploy generative AI tools with the need to keep their organizations in compliance with regional, national, and often international regulations. The heart of the problem is a contradiction deeply embedded into the very nature of generative AI systems. Unlike the software…

Modern Warfare 2 Remastered mod soon makes classic 2009 multiplayer lobbies better than ever

Modern Warfare 2 Remastered mod soon makes classic 2009 multiplayer lobbies better than ever

A new mod for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is about to bring Modern Warfare 2’s iconic multiplayer experience back to life, taking you on a 2009-fueled nostalgia trip to the good ole days of CoD. If you were lucky enough to remember Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in its heyday, you probably…

Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers

Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers

Enlarge / The Bambu Lab A1, complete with heated build platform. Bambu Lab A patent lawsuit filed by one of 3D printing’s most established firms against a consumer-focused upstart could have a big impact on the wider 3D-printing scene. In two complaints, (1, 2, PDF) filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, against…

John Carpenter’s Halloween getting two new games by Evil Dead: The Game dev

John Carpenter’s Halloween getting two new games by Evil Dead: The Game dev

Get those knives ready because there will be two new Halloween games based on John Carpenter’s terrifying universe. One of those Halloween titles will be developed in Unreal Engine 5 and helmed by Boss Team Games, a studio already familiar with the movie-to-horror-game pipeline after creating Evil Dead: The Game. According to an IGN exclusive…

Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away

Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away

Enlarge / Paint 3D, once the future of the Paint app, is getting the axe in November. Andrew Cunningham In October of 2017, Microsoft released a version of Windows 10 called the “Fall Creators Update,” back when the company tried to give brand names to these things rather than just sticking to version numbering. One…