Signal said today that it is updating its Windows app to prevent the system from capturing screenshots, thereby protecting the content that is on display. The company said that this new “screen security” setting is enabled by default on Windows 11. Signal said that this new feature is designed to protect users’ privacy from Microsoft’s […]
Beyond Android 16 for TV, Google at I/O 2025 detailed what’s coming to Google TV. This includes a push for cheaper smart televisions with low RAM that run Google TV.
Over the next decade, a wave of solar and wind projects will sweep across the UK to meet both net zero goals and growing energy demand from data centres and AI.
The M&S website was down in the early hours of this morning - hours after the retailer revealed it's facing a £300m hit to profits following last month's ransomware attack.
Fujifilm has a new pint-size addition to its X-series cameras coming in late June: the X Half. It’s an 18-megapixel “half-frame” camera with a portrait-oriented sensor and viewfinder and a fixed 32mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens.
Despite being digital, the X Half is all about the vintage film aesthetic. The $849.99 camera is so dedicated to an analog-like lifestyle that it’s got an entire secondary screen just for picking one of its 13 film simulations, and it doesn’t shoot RAW photos at all — just JPGs, for a more what-you-see-is-what-you-get experience.
Fujifilm’s definition of a half-frame is a bit different from the traditional one. Usually, a half-frame film camera like the Pentax 17 captures images measuring 18mm x 24mm (around half the size of full-frame / 35mm format). But the X Half uses a 1-inch-type sensor measuring 8.8mm x 13.3mm, which is about half the dimensions of the APS-C sensors in other Fujifilm cameras like the X100VI and X-T5. So I guess it counts on a technicality.
But like the Pentax 17 and other actual half-frame cameras, the X Half is all about taking casual, fun snapshots and bringing it with you everywhere. It weighs just 8.5 ounces / 240 grams and is small enough to fit in most small bags or even some oversized pockets. The X Half is close in size to a traditional disposable camera, but unlike a one-time-use film camera it has a proper glass autofocusing lens with aspherical corrections, and it even shoots some basic 1080 x 1440 video. (Though, in my briefing on the camera, Justin Stailey of Fujifilm North America described the lens as having “some character.” Which is often a colorful way of saying the lens isn’t the sharpest.)
Once you take some shots via the X Half’s traditional optical viewfinder (that’s right, there’s no EVF or hybrid finder here) or its portrait-orientation 2.4-inch touchscreen, you can connect to a dedicated smartphone app (launching slightly after the camera) for extra functions. You can create your own two-up diptychs like a traditional half-frame camera, though here you can pick out the two side-by-side pictures, or you can opt for two videos or one picture and one video.
Fujifilm has baked other analog-inspired features into the X Half app, like a Film Camera Mode that collects your next 36, 54, or 72 images and arranges them into a contact sheet. But the film nerdiness goes deeper than that, as the digital film strip will be branded with the film simulation you used. There’s even a faux film advance lever for making diptychs, and in Film Camera Mode it forces you to use it between taking each shot.
You can lean further into the film kitsch by adding filters, like a light leak effect, expired film look, or a ’90s-era time and date stamp to the corner. Of course, since the camera does not shoot RAW, your chosen filter and film simulation are fully baked into the JPG file. You can’t undo any of them or change it later in post-processing like you’d normally be able to with a RAW.
Fujifilm is certainly taking a unique approach with the X Half, trying to capture the interest of younger photo enthusiasts who in recent years have been drawn to the imperfections and vibes of vintage film and aging point-and-shoot digital cameras. I don’t know how many of them will be jumping at the opportunity to scratch that creative itch with an $850 camera compared to alternatives costing a fraction of that — like a $70 Camp Snap for digital or any 35mm disposable film camera for $10 to $20 — but even if it’s half the fun I had with the Pentax 17 it should prove a good time.
OpenAI pushed generative AI into the public consciousness. Now, it could be developing a very different kind of AI device. According to a WSJ report, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday that the company’s next major product won’t be a wearable. Instead, it will be a compact, screenless device, fully aware of its user’s […]
ChatGPT is sending more of its traffic to publishers’ sites.
Of the traffic OpenAI’s generative AI platforms send to external websites, 83% went to news and media sites in April, up from 64% in January, according to Similarweb data shared with Digiday.
Referral traffic from ChatGPT also continues to grow this year. ChatGPT sent 243.8 million visits to 250 news and media websites in April 2025, up 98% from 123.2 million visits this January, according to David Carr, senior insights manager at data analytics company Similarweb.
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Participants in the Google antitrust trial are entering the final furlong, with Google on Monday (May 19) countering the Justice Department’s remedy proposals after Justice Leonie Brinkema ruled its ad tech stack a monopoly last month.
Of course, Google’s advocates will point out how the DOJ only won two of the charges it brought against its ad tech stack in the April 17 ruling, using this point to undermine government lawyers’ push for a forced breakup.
AI may be fueling a fresh chapter in ad tech fraud — and not in ways the industry is ready for.
Generative AI content farms are stealing publishers’ ads.txt files to hijack ad revenue, according to DoubleVerify, which has been tracking the activity since January.
The tech company has been investigating what it has dubbed “AI slop sites and networks” – one in particular called “Synthetic Echo” – which uses generative AI to mass-produce content and spoof ads.txt files to siphon revenue from legitimate publishers.
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This week’s Media Briefing looks at what AI Mode, the latest generative AI search experience Google has rolled out, means for publishers’ search referral traffic.
Users’ queries in AI Mode are two to three times the length of traditional searches, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday. Google thinks this means users will discover more web content. Publishers aren’t convinced.
Local newspapers’ AI-generated content makes up book titles, News Corp introduces mandatory AI training for journalists, and more.
Less clicks, more problems
After months of anxiety and speculation, the rollout publishers feared — Google’s AI Mode in search — has arrived.
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