With AI slop taking over the web, being able to confirm a piece of content’s provenance is more important than ever. Adobe announced on Tuesday that it will begin rolling out a beta of its Content Authenticity web app in the first quarter of 2025, enabling creators to digitally certify their works as human-made, and is immediately launching a Content Authenticity browser extension for Chrome to help protect content creators until the web app arrives.
Adobe’s digital watermarking relies on a combination of digital fingerprinting, watermarking, and cryptographic metadata to certify the authenticity of images, video, and audio files. Unlike traditional metadata that is easily circumvented with screenshots, Adobe’s system can still identify the creator of a registered file even when the credentials have been scrubbed. This enables to company to “truly say that wherever an image, or a video, or an audio file goes, on anywhere on the web or on a mobile device, the content credential will always be attached to it,” Adobe Senior Director of Content Authenticity Andy Parsons told TechCrunch.
Both the Chrome extension and the forthcoming web app will be available to the public, whether you’re one of Adobe’s 33 million paying subscribers and Firefly users. “We’re going to release the Content Authenticity browser extension for Chrome as part of this software package, and also something we call the Inspect tool within the Adobe Content Authenticity website,” Parsons said. “These will help you discover and display content credentials wherever they are associated with content anywhere on the web, and that can show you again who made the content, who gets credit for it.”
This announcement comes amid Adobe’s larger push for building trust through transparency in digital content. The company has founded a pair of industry groups — the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and the foundational open standards consortium the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) — to spur adoption of its Content Authenticity initiative. To date, the groups have attracted more than 2,000 signatories, including nearly every major camera manufacturer, along with AI front runners Microsoft and OpenAI, as well as social media platforms including TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
Mozilla is giving Firefox’s Smart Window two new tricks. If you haven’t tried it yet, Smart Window is an optional AI mode in Firefox with a built-in chat that helps you get things done while you browse. With this update, it can fill out online forms using details from your tabs and keep an eye on websites for you.
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The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.