Dawn Solano

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AI wars: Artists can now kill art generators with data poisoning tool ‘Nightshade’ 

‘Nightshade’ is a data-poisoning tool that artists can put into the pixels of their art that could manipulate AI generative models in how they interpret the image. This tool can corrupt prompts from Stable Diffusion SDXL, DALL-E, Imagen and Midjourney.

Cisco & NVIDIA collab brings video meetings on a cinematic level

"In order for people to want to come to the office, companies must fundamentally reimagine and reconfigure workspaces to provide seamless and immersive collaboration experience,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Security and Collaboration.

A gift guide for content creators

Gimbals may look a bit like overkill in this day and age, but content creators will find filming to be much easier with a gimbal. There are many types meant for different situations but we narrow it down here, with two of the best from Hohem

Five new AI tools you might want to check out today

If you are looking for something to ease your workload at the office or for something to boost your creative juices today, then here are five artificial intelligence (AI) tools you can try out. 

IT leaders, end-users urged to take a ‘proactive’ stance against cyberattacks

“Our duty extends beyond safeguarding traditional IT infrastructure to ensuring the robust security of devices that are integral part of our daily lives,” VST ECS Phils. Inc. president and CEO Jimmy Go said during his keynote speech on the opening day of the CXO Innovation Summit 2023 at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Mactan, Cebu.

‘Filipino consumers become their own influencers’

Livestreaming shopping has been seen to be one of the key contributors to the Philippine e-commerce. It grew its popularity during the pandemic since the mobility of consumers were limited then.

AI tech experts warn users to know the repercussions in joining the AI yearbook trend

Developed by South Korean company Snow Corporation, Epik is a photo editing application that has a feature that transforms self portraits into 1990s cheerleaders, athletes, and more. Celebrities and social media influencers joining the trend only escalated the fast-growing number of the app users. 

DOST to launch ‘Filipino-style’ ChatGPT

According to DOST-ASTI’s director, Dr. Franz de Leon, the iTANONG project is continuously achieving “milestones” since the agency began the project in 2022.  

Shopee PH gears up for the Christmas season with its first Shopee Mall Outlet

Huiyan Pan, Shopee PH’s Head of Marketing, said that many are already looking forward to an early Christmas shopping and that the launching of their outlet this upcoming 10.10 sale will allow “more value” for money.

Apple Music, YT Music premium plans to be cheaper than Spotify’s

On Oct. 3, Spotify PH announced that its original pricing for the individual plan (From P129 pesos) will be P149 in December. Users are still going to be charged with the original prince until their billing date in the said month.

IT support, cybersecurity among the top “must have” employee digital skills in PH — study

Economist Impact, a study supported by Google, conducted a survey of more than 1,000 employees across Asia-Pacific and found that 65% and 59.6% of the 100 Filipinos among them expressed wanting to develop IT skills and cybersecurity, respectively.

Google now offers free AI upskilling courses to help build a “Digital Philippines” 

On the same day of its 25th anniversary, Google Philippines announced that it is now offering online courses on the use of generative AI, language models, and responsible AI to make themselves AI-ready for potential employers.