Author: Shubham Agarwal

AI-generated faces are taking over the internet

The Times profiled an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman named “Luba Dovzhenko” in March to illustrate life under siege. She, the article claimed, studied journalism, spoke “bad English,” and began carrying a weapon after the Russian invasion.

The issue, how…

Google has a new plan to replace cookies. Will it work?

In 2021, Google pulled the trigger on it’s grand plan to get rid of cookies — a fundamental but problematic part of the internet as we know it — and replace them with a new “privacy-first alternative” called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. In t…