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.
US investigators are using AI to detect child abuse images made by AI
Generative AI has enabled the production of child sexual abuse images to...
The need to cut emissions and adapt to our warming world is growing more urgent. This year, we’ve seen temperatures reach record highs, as they have nearly every year for the last decade. Climate-fueled natural disasters are affecting communities around the world, costing billions of...
Generative AI has enabled the production of child sexual abuse images to skyrocket. Now the leading investigator of child exploitation in the US is experimenting with using AI to distinguish AI-generated images from material depicting real victims, according to a new government...
This week, the PMA Coupons and Deals Council hosted a webinar entitled “Beyond the Affiliate Coupon Code, The Future of Deals and Discounts.” It was a great recap of some of the results from our 2025 U.S. Affiliate Marketing Study plus a deep dive into the “whys”…
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Shoplifters in the US could soon be chased down by drones
The news: Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company has announced. Potential customers include businesses trying to curb shoplifting....
Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company announced today, with potential customers including including businesses intent on curbing shoplifting.
Companies in the US can now place Flock’s drone...
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.
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible:...
This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility.
One small detail? That reactor...
When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving.
Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he grew up in Germany—but he had become...