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Apple says ChatGPT image generation is now available in Image Playground with new ChatGPT styles, releases an API, adds Genmoji text descriptions, and more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/chatgpt-integration-co…

ChatGPT Integration Coming to Apple's Image Playground
Apple today revealed a number of updates for Image Playground and Genmoji. ChatGPT image generation is now available directly in Image Playground,...

Wie ins Meer pinkeln: KI vergiften helfe nicht
Der Versuch, Daten zu vergiften, helfe so wenig, wie ins Meer zu pinkeln – es bleibe ein Meer. Das sagt der Anbieter einer Schutz-Software.
https://www.

Crikey, just (finally) nailed the 'family photo gallery in a frame' functionality for my mum (with failing memory, in an assisted living situation) across the world. Can control it from here in Aotearoa (via screen share or ssh) with the extraordinarily handy 'RaspberryPi Connect' functionality. The key technologies are:
- Firefox (in kiosk mode),
- Immich (

Anekdotische Evidenz, aber... in Albanien rechnen sich offenbar Verbrenner-taxis nicht mehr! https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/Kommentare/Hyundai-Ioniq-5-im…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
INGA: [To Ushton] Why did you do it?
USHTON: I had to.
INGA: No you didn't, Father.
USHTON: He would have killed you, Inga.
INGA: I would rather he had.
TRAVIS: Take them in there.
h…

GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
Diji Yang, Minghao Liu, Chung-Hsiang Lo, Yi Zhang, James Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06220

GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on text-to-image retrieval benchmarks. However, bridging this success to real-world applications remains a challenge. In practice, human search behavior is rarely a one-shot action. Instead, it is often a multi-round process guided by clues in mind, that is, a mental image ranging from vague recollections to vivid mental representations of the target image. Motivated by this gap, we study the task of Mental Image Retrieval (MIR), which…

Efficacy of Image Similarity as a Metric for Augmenting Small Dataset Retinal Image Segmentation
Thomas Wallace, Ik Siong Heng, Senad Subasic, Chris Messenger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04862

Efficacy of Image Similarity as a Metric for Augmenting Small Dataset Retinal Image Segmentation
Synthetic images are an option for augmenting limited medical imaging datasets to improve the performance of various machine learning models. A common metric for evaluating synthetic image quality is the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) which measures the similarity of two image datasets. In this study we evaluate the relationship between this metric and the improvement which synthetic images, generated by a Progressively Growing Generative Adversarial Network (PGGAN), grant when augmenting Di…

Commuting day today. Walking to the train station.
#goodmorning #tgif

Maryland-based quantum computing company IonQ agrees to acquire Oxford Ionics, which spun out of Oxford University, in a $1.07B all-stock deal, closing in 2025 (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dde7bac2-cacb-4deb-9223-5bcfe285db15

US quantum computing company IonQ to buy Oxford university start-up
Acquisition of Oxford Ionics for $1.1bn shows advances in processing are kick-starting dealmaking

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SERVALAN: Your work and the animals.
JUSTIN: My work is destroyed.
SERVALAN: Then you die. Both of you.
DAYNA: It's in his head. He said so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/386 B7B2

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