Google will soon blur explicit imagery in Search results by default

February 7, 2023

Google announced today that it will enable its SafeSearch filtering technology by default for all users in the coming months. The filter is designed to help people protect themselves and their families from inadvertently encountering explicit imagery on Search. The search giant says it’s announcing the feature today to mark Safer Internet Day. The setting […]

Google will soon blur explicit imagery in Search results by default by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Flox raises $27M to bring Nix to more developers

February 7, 2023

Nix, the open-source tool for creating reproducible builds and deployments, is becoming increasingly popular among developers, but it’s not always the easiest service to work with. It’s maybe no surprise then that we’re now seeing a new batch of startups that aims to bring Nix to more developers by building the tooling necessary to bring […]

Flox raises $27M to bring Nix to more developers by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design

February 7, 2023

A clutch of startups is trying to topple Adobe’s dominance in three-dimensional modeling and do more than Canva. A freshly funded player is PixCap, which is entering the fray with a no-code, web-based 3D design tool. Founded in 2020, Singapore-based PixCap just secured $2.8 million from a seed funding round. It was part of the seventh […]

Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

EU’s top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation

February 7, 2023

A controversial move by Twitter-owner Elon Musk to end free access to its APIs by February 9 has attracted criticism from the European Union’s top diplomat who has warned it could threaten the ability of researchers to study disinformation at a critical time — with Russia aggressively weaponizing disinformation to try to provide cover for […]

EU’s top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: generative AI for video, and detecting AI text

February 7, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video What’s happened: Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has released an AI…