AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
IEEE

Breaking Boundaries: Unifying Imaging and Compression for HDR Image Compression

Abstract: High Dynamic Range (HDR) images present unique challenges for Learned Image Compression (LIC) due to their complex domain distribution compared to Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images. In coding ...
9to5Mac

iOS 27 to include code cleanup and interface tweaks in hopes to boost battery life: report

In today’s edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared a number of new details about Apple’s upcoming software release: iOS 27. The company is aiming to ‘tidy’ its codebase, ...
The New York Times

A.I. Loves Fake Images. But They’ve Been a Thing Since Photography Began.

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reminds us that photography has always had a complicated relationship with the truth. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam On the cover of a German ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’

AI tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now create strikingly realistic video. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a film made almost entirely with AI. Watch the film and ...
Geeky Gadgets

Using Claude Code Subagents to Turn Images into a Working Build Guides

What if you could turn a simple image into fully functional code, without lifting a finger to write it yourself? The rise of AI-powered tools like Claude Code is making this a reality, and it’s not ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model

OpenAI is rolling out a new version of ChatGPT Images that promises better instruction-following, more precise editing, and up to 4x faster image generation speeds. The new model, dubbed GPT Image 1.5 ...
NPR

The evolution of blackface in the age of AI

With AI image and video generators, it's become easier than ever to create hyper-realistic clips of almost anything. Today, we're looking at the landscape of AI influencers that depict Black people in ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
IEEE

Learned Image Compression With Efficient Cross-Platform Entropy Coding

Abstract: Learned image compression has shown remarkable compression efficiency gain over the traditional image compression solutions, which is partially attributed to the learned entropy models and ...
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the dramatic call for a “code red” last week to beat back a rising threat from Google, he put a notable priority at the top of his list of fixes. The world’s most ...