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Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generati…

Canva releases its first image generation model | TechCrunch
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

Dungeon generation in the gnomish mines of NetHack #NetHack

It's kind of crazy that both GPT and Claude really love to manipulate files by writing Python scripts that do text search-and-replace. First of all, why isn't this a dedicated tool? Second, the generated scripts usually don't check that the search-and-replace was successful. Are they just good enough at regurgitating text that they never make mistakes? What if the file was modified in the mean time?

#AI-generated #sitcom on https://fal.live/sitcom
It's amazingly bad so that it's fun again somehow ...
And all the pr…

Its 2026 and Chrome can't suggest strong passwords.
Feel free to check my pre agentic browser only (Go compiled to wasm) AGPLv3 page doing so for you. As a bonus me and my 0 advertising partners don't care if you visited the page.
It tries to fuzzy match the password strength instructions for some webs. Does not generate "4" unless pressed very hard.

This AI-generated song/video about how shitty AI is made me laugh. I can appreciate the irony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNpOD6bov8

If you were wondering whether AI could make the midterms even more confusing, here’s one data point:
Several people who thought they were donating to James Talarico unwittingly gave their money to someone else.
Talarico, a Texas Democrat, is running for Senate in what’s probably the most closely watched race of the upcoming elections.
Search Google for how to contribute to his campaign, and you might get an AI-generated answer that links to ways “you can chip in securely…

America Is About to See What Happens When Voters Turn to AI
Chatbots are adding a new layer of chaos ahead of the midterms.

I found the NESO winter outlook report for generation, and also stumbled across a couple of their others;
The winter outlook one is top left of https://www.neso.energy/publications/winter-watch (We're probably fine this year, but there will be a few tight bits in December an…

Winter Watch | National Energy System Operator
NESO has published its Winter Outlook for 2026/27, setting out its latest view of how Britain’s electricity system is expected to operate over the coming winter.

"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02340-8
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…

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