Mashable: ‘Why has my Tweet been deleted?’: New Twitter bugs just dropped.. “Another week, another new plague of Twitter bugs and glitches. Over the past few days, Twitter users have reported a wide variety of issues that greatly affect the platform’s functionality. Here are the most pressing ones.”
VentureBeat: Adobe bets on generative AI with ‘Firefly’ tool to create images from text. “Adobe announced a series of AI initiatives at its annual conference, Adobe Summit, on Tuesday, including a new set of tools that can generate images on demand using only text prompts.”
City of Philadelphia: Philadelphia Becomes First Large U.S. City to Track Social Progress Across Every Neighborhood. “ProgressPHL establishes a Social Progress Index that is supported by almost 50 data indicators including everything from public safety, nutrition and basic medical care, housing, education, environmental quality, Internet access, water and sanitation, personal rights, inclusiveness, and many others. The indicators provide granular and detailed information about what is going on in each of Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. The combined indicators create an overall index score for each neighborhood.”
The Construction Index: V&A acquires archive of Pugin drawings. “More than 700 drawings by 19th century architect Augustus Pugin have been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London…. The 700 drawings – which range in date from the late 1830s until 1851 – are working design drawings in Pugin’s hand. Many are signed and dated by Pugin himself. They range from initial sketches in pencil to finished presentation designs rendered in watercolour.”
CNBC: SEC charges Tron founder Justin Sun, celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul with crypto violations. “The Securities and Exchange Commission has unveiled fraud and unregistered securities charges against crypto founder and Grenadian diplomat Justin Sun, alongside separate violations against the celebrity backers of his Tronix and BitTorrent crypto assets, which included Jake Paul, Lindsay Lohan and Soulja Boy.”
UNESCO World Heritage Conservation: New online Guidance for Wind Energy Projects in a World Heritage Context. “UNESCO has launched a new guidance tool to enhance mutual understanding and achieve improved and constructive cooperation between the deployment of wind energy projects and the conservation of the world’s most precious heritage places.”
BuzzFeed News: Midjourney Allegedly Banned A Journalist After He Created AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested. “Many are envisioning — some gleefully — what a Trump arrest would look like. Among them is Eliot Higgins, best known as the founder of open-source investigative journalism website Bellingcat. This week, Higgins used the AI image generator Midjourney to depict Trump’s arrest. He shared 50 images on Twitter, and they quickly went viral. As a result, he said on Wednesday, Midjourney appeared to have banned him from the service. Midjourney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (The word ‘arrested’ is now banned on the platform.) “
Bleeping Computer: North Korean hackers using Chrome extensions to steal Gmail emails. “Kimsuky (aka Thallium, Velvet Chollima) is a North Korean threat group that uses spear phishing to conduct cyber-espionage against diplomats, journalists, government agencies, university professors, and politicians. Initially focused on targets in South Korea, the threat actors expanded operations over time to target entities in the USA and Europe.”
New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Abandoned Republic is a website that archives vintage Banana Republic Catalogs. “I stumbled across this website the other day, Abandoned Republic, which describes itself as ‘A Journey Through the Vintage Banana Republic Catalog.’”
Axios: DWAC fires its CEO amid stalled deal to buy Trump’s Truth Social . “Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank check company seeking to buy Truth Social parent company TMTG, on Wednesday disclosed that it has fired chairman and CEO Patrick Orlando.”
Ars Technica: Making faces: How to train an AI on your face to create silly portraits. “In this walkthrough, I’ll show you how to install Stable Diffusion locally on your computer, train Dreambooth on your face, and generate so many pictures of yourself that your friends and family will eventually block you to stop the deluge of silly photos. The entire process will take about two hours from start to finish, with the bulk of the time spent babysitting a Google Colab notebook while it trains on your images.”
Ars Technica: Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years. “Amazon has plans to lay off at least 27,000 workers this year, including 9,000 that were announced in an internal email Monday morning. One unexpected casualty: Digital Photography Review, also known as DPReview, is losing its entire editorial staff, and the site will stop publishing on April 10.”
Rolling Stone: Intel Bulletins Warn of Surge in Violent Threats Over Trump Arrest. “THE U.S. CAPITOL Police and other law enforcement agencies are reporting a surge in online threats of violence in the run-up to a possible arrest of Donald Trump, according to three government intelligence bulletins obtained by Rolling Stone and interviews with senior officials.”
ProPublica: Nepal Wants a Sacred Necklace Returned. But a Major Museum Still Keeps It on Display.. “Questions about the origins and ownership of some Asian artifacts in a key collection at the Art Institute of Chicago have cast doubt on the museum’s commitment to keeping its galleries free of stolen antiquities.”
Coconuts Bangkok: Thai politicos urged to prioritize digital rights in run-up to election. “Thailand’s next general election date is now set, and digital rights advocates have called on its political parties to prioritize digital rights and freedom of expression. EngageMedia, a nonprofit promoting digital rights in Southeast Asia, has released a four-point agenda that identifies policies to protect digital rights and ensure access to information.”
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