Morning Overview on MSN

Porsche drops a gorgeous ad made with 0 AI, and people love it

Porsche has closed out the year with a holiday commercial that looks like it rolled straight out of an AI image generator, ...
The New York Times

4 Easy Ways to Make Sure No One Can Read Your Text Messages

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The Verge

Runway says its new text-to-video AI generator has ‘unprecedented’ accuracy

The Gen-4.5 model is better at producing visuals that align with more complex prompts, according to Runway. The Gen-4.5 model is better at producing visuals that align with more complex prompts, ...
Harvard Business Review

Making Sense of Research on How People Use AI

As generative AI plays an increasingly prominent role in our lives—at work as well as at home—we’d all do well to develop our own nuanced viewpoints about the technology. Over the past three years in ...
KCCI Des Moines

New Text to 911 service allows you to reach help without cell reception. Here's how it works

SHORE. POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS DISPATCHED TO A SWAMP WHERE SOMEBODY WAS STUCK. OUR RHONDELLA RICHARDSON IS LIVE IN MANCHESTER BY THE SEA WITH THE TOOL FIRST RESPONDERS USED TO PULL IT OFF. RHONDELLA ...
Android Authority

T-Mobile makes satellite 911 texting free for everyone — even Verizon and AT&T users

T-Mobile now lets anyone use Text to 911 via satellite, including Verizon and AT&T customers. Enabling the service is free, but you’ll need to sign up via T-Mobile’s enrollment page. Text to 911 works ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...
GamesRadar+

Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing ...

RPGs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director admits Sandfall "tried" AI during the J'RPG's development, but "didn’t like it" RPGs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets dragged into the Larian AI drama, while ...
Bleeping Computer

BiDi Swap: The bidirectional text trick that makes fake URLs look real

Varonis Threat Labs is shining a spotlight on a decade-old vulnerability that opens the door to URL spoofing. By exploiting how browsers handle Right-to-Left (RTL) and Left-to-Right (LTR) scripts, ...
Education Week

Play-Based Learning in Kindergarten Is Making a Comeback. Here’s What It Means

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...