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OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/21/openai-unveiling-chatgpt-images-2…

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Images 2 image-gen model capable of magazine design - 9to5Mac
OpenAI is announcing its upgraded ChatGPT image generation model with ChatGPT Images 2. The company is also scaling up Codex...

"Satellite images indicate that the Doñana Marshland will disappear within 60 years"
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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-satellite-images-doana-…

Satellite images indicate that the Doñana Marshland will disappear within 60 years
The Doñana National Park, considered one of Europe's most valuable wetlands, is expected to lose its marshland in 61 years, according to calculations from a major water-resource monitoring study carried out by the University of Seville. The study has developed an innovative algorithm, based on machine learning, capable of detecting the presence of surface water with high precision using images from the Sentinel-2 satellite.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/shippings-biofuel-gamble-could-deepen-africas-land-squeeze-and-food-insecurity-commentar…

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)
Africa’s future prosperity depends on how fast we can reduce emissions, especially from large polluting sectors like shipping. But using crops as fuel to cut emissions risks causing more harm than good. As countries gather at the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting in April to lay down the rules for future clean energy to […]

OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/chatgpts-new-images-2-…

ChatGPT's new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text | TechCrunch
ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing.

“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.”
This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as critical to sustainably feeding a growing human population, because insects have a much smaller carbon footprint than beef, pork, and chicken.
Spoiler alert: We di…

Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing. 
How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best long-form infosec-related reads that I couldn't get to in the daily news crush.
This week's selection is one for the record books and covers
--Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers,
--Romance scammers use AI to exploit victims,
--Drug cartels embrace crypto,
--Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs,
--Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web,
--Isra…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/14/26
Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers, Romance scammers are using AI to exploit victims, Drug cartels are embracing crypto, Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs, Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web, Israel gains an edge on automotive spying, A fake DPRK IT worker tells all, more

An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel
Plans
features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.
DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8,
which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet,
but now Immigrat…

'No expense has been spared': Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for deportations
WASHINGTON — An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.

Netflix hat 325 Millionen Nutzer
Mit insgesamt 325 Millionen Nutzern konnte Netflix im abgelaufenen Quartal Umsatz von über 12 Milliarden US-Dollar erwirtschaften. Die Werbeeinnahmen steigen.
https://www.heis…

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new "thinking capabilities", allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/916166/openai-chatg…

OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2, the latest version of its AI-powered image generator, which comes with the ability to search the web to inform its output.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-beefs-up-chatgpts-image-generation-model/

OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT's Image Generation Model
The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.