Adobe Firefly Follows in Google Gemini’s Woke Footsteps With Photos of Black Nazis, Black and Female Founding Fathers
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New York Post ^
| March 14, 2024 | Melissa Koenig
Adobe’s Firefly seems to be following in the woke footsteps of Google’s failed Gemini AI image producer — generating photos of black Nazis and black and female founding fathers. In
a test of the product conducted by The Post on Thursday, Firefly produced an image of two smiling black men standing in front of an American flag when prompted to create a photo of the “founding fathers of the USA.” Searches for the 1787 Constitutional Convention also produced images of both black men and white women standing in front of the historic State House in Philadelphia, Penn., and a search...
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No Lessons Learned: Adobe’s Woke AI Follows in Google’s Footsteps by Erasing History
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Breitbart ^
| 14 Mar 2024 | Lucas Nolan
Adobe’s AI image creation tool, Firefly, has stumbled into the same pitfalls as Google’s Gemini AI by creating woke revisions of history, raising concerns about the limitations and biases inherent in generative AI systems. Semafor
reports that as tech giants race to develop cutting-edge generative AI tools, the potential for these systems to perpetuate harmful biases and spread misinformation has become a growing concern. Adobe’s recently launched Firefly, an AI image creation tool, has found itself embroiled in a controversy reminiscent of Google’s Gemini AI, highlighting the challenges companies face in controlling these powerful yet imperfect technologies. Like Gemini before...
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Adobe workers reportedly protest California conference's move to 'hostile environment' of Florida
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SF Gate ^
| 2/20/24 | By Stephen Council
Citing what they describe as a “hostile” political climate, hundreds of Adobe workers are protesting the company’s decision to hold its flagship MAX conference in Miami Beach in October, according to a Wednesday report from Business Insider. The outlet secured a 10-page petition sent to company leadership, signed by more than 500
employees of the San Jose tech giant. The petition said workers were “shocked and dismayed” by MAX’s move to Florida, and called out the state’s history of “egregious policies,” BI reported. “We sincerely hope that the overwhelming evidence that Florida is a hostile environment for Adobe’s employees, partners,...
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Adobe workers reportedly protest California conference's move to 'hostile environment' of Florida
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SF Gate ^
| 2/20/24 | By Stephen Council
"The Middle East looks set for a path of escalation on multiple fronts as Israeli forces close in on what is left of southern Gaza, and as Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch their most damaging strike yet on a ship in the Red Sea.The crew of the British-owned, Belize-flagged bulk carrier MV Rubymar
were forced to abandon ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, receiving help from a nearby merchant vessel and coalition warship to reach a nearby port after “two anti-ship ballistic missiles were launched from Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas of Yemen,” according to U.S. Central Command." (snip) Twenty-six...
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John Warnock, Who Invented the PDF and Co-Founded Adobe Systems, Dies at Age 82
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KSBW ^
| Aug 21, 2023
John Warnock, who invented the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, has died. He
was 82. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur and computer scientist died Saturday surrounded by family, Adobe said in a statement. The company didn't give a cause of death or say where Warnock died.“John’s brilliance and innovations left an indelible mark on Adobe, the technology industry and the world,” Adobe said. Warnock worked for Xerox before he and colleague Charles Geschke created a company around a rejected idea in 1982. Nearly a decade later, Warnock outlined an early version of the Portable Document Format, or PDF, transforming the way...
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Ha, Ha, Stupid Adobe Acrobat, After you deprecated Ctrl-Shift-Tab to move from Bookmarks to Page Thumbnails, feinting Ctrl-Shift-I insert page then esc moves to Page Thumbnails
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self | CharlesOconnell
Programmers can never leave well enough alone. (Think
of all the once-great applications programs that had great features that were deprecated.) I don't think it was greed that caused this deprecation of a very usable feature. (When on Bookmark panel, you used to be able to Ctrl-Shift-Tab to go to Page Thumbnails, panel, an essential keyboard shortcut when processing a large volume of pages.) I think it is simply programmers who know nothing about users, who are marketing morons, who have too much time on their hands, on an application that was perfected 20 years ago, so they have to...
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Adobe Acrobat - Overlay Signature Blocks onto PDF
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9/29/2022
Good afternoon fellow Freepers. I got a project that I'm working on but I don't know how to make it work. Basically,
I have a PDF file with areas that need text or digital signature blocks added, but I'm looking to find out if there is a way to overlay a PDF with those items in key positions onto the primary PDF file, and have everything line up. As it is right now, I manually add those items one at a time and the time it takes to do 20-30 forms is killing me. There's got to be a way...
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Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash
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cnn ^
New York (CNN Business)Journalism is often considered the first draft of history, but what happens when that draft is written on a software program that becomes obsolete? Adobe
ending support for Flash — its once ubiquitous multimedia content player — last year meant that some of the news coverage of the September 11th attacks and other major events from the early days of online journalism are no longer accessible. For example, The Washington Post and ABC News both have broken experiences within their September 11th coverage, viewable in the Internet Archive. CNN's online coverage of September 11th also has been...
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Castro Adobe to Reopen After Two-year Closure
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Good Times Santa Cruz ^
| JUNE 25, 2021 | Johanna Miller
After nearly two years of being closed to the public, Castro Adobe State Historic Park will once again invite people to come learn about an important part of California history.After nearly two years of being closed to the public, Castro Adobe State Historic Park will once again invite people to come learn
about an important part of California history. Located on a hill off of Larkin Valley Road and overlooking the Pajaro Valley, Castro Adobe’s main draw is a historic, two-story hacienda built between 1848-49 by Juan Jose Castro, son of Jose Joaquin Castro (an original member of the Juan...
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China Railroad Stops When Adobe Finally Turns off Flash
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Apple Daily ^
| 1/17/21 | Hong Kong Apple Daily
The railroad system in Dalian, northern China, collapsed citywide on Tuesday for up to 20 hours after the Adobe Flash programing software stopped running. Adobe
had announced as early as 2017 that it would cease support for the multimedia software on Dec. 30 last year. The American software company eventually ended the operation of all Flash content on Tuesday. Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting...
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Adobe Flash Player end of life question
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me | 11/14/2020 | self
I have been getting on-screen reminders lately that Flash Player support will end on December 31st 2020. Without
getting too technical, can some kind FReepers tell me what, if anything, I need to install in order to do what Flash Player once did?
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Far Left Companies – Pepsi, HP, Doritos, Paypal, Adobe, BMW – Pull Ads from Facebook Until they Ban Conservative Voices and President Trump’s Posts
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www.thegatewaypundit.com ^
| Published June 25, 2020 at 9:47am | By Jim Hoft
Several far left companies including: Pepsi, HP, Doritos, Paypal, Adobe and BMW, pulled their ads from Facebook until they ban posts frrom US President Donald Trump. The companies are only concerned about banning conservative voices. You
can bet that radical leftists and violent anarchists who are burning cities and destroying statues are safe with these companies. Far Left groups are behind this effort to ban conservative voices online. The Anti-Defamation League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Sleeping Giants and Color of Change are behind this latest effort to ban conservative voices.
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Adobe shuts down Photoshop in Venezuela
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BBC ^
| 10/08/19
**SNIP** Users have until 28 October to download content, after which accounts will be deactivated, Adobe said. It
is unclear whether other technology firms will follow suit. On a help page, the firm explained: "The US government issued executive order 13884, the practical effect of which is to prohibit almost all transactions and services between US companies, entities and individuals to Venezuela. To remain compliant with this order, Adobe is deactivating all accounts in Venezuela." It said it had no idea how long the sanctions would be in effect but added: "We will continue to monitor developments closely and will...
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Adobe is using AI to catch Photoshopped images
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Engadget ^
| Kris Holt
Think of sharks swimming in the streets of New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy, or someone flying a "where's my damn dinner?" banner over a women's march. Those
images were fake, but clever manipulation can trick news outlets and social media users into thinking they're real. Whenever someone alters an image, unless they are pixel perfect in their work, they always leave behind indicators that the photo is modified. Metadata and watermarks can help determine a source image, and forensics can probe factors like lighting, noise distribution and edges on the pixel level to find inconsistencies. If a color is slightly...
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A single high school in India has produced the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe, and Mastercard
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Business Insider ^
| April 2, 2018 | Shana Lebowitz
If you're looking to raise one of the most powerful business leaders in the world, you might want to send your kid to Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, in India. In an interview with Stephen Dubner on an episode of the "Freakonomics" podcast, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mentioned that not only did he
attend the high school, but so did Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe, and Ajay Banga, the CEO of Mastercard. Hyderabad Public School is what Americans would consider a private school — though in India, like England, such schools are called public schools. According to Hyderabad Public School's...
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any Adobe CC licensing experts? Trying get an answer about that and legacy versions
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self | 10/18/17 | NewJerseyJoe
Trying to find an unused retail version (on eBay, etc.) of older versions of Creative Suite is next to impossible, unless you've got a lot of $$. I
read that, if a person has a Creative Cloud subscription, he can download legacy versions of Creative Suite from http://www.adobe.com I have two questions about things that aren't clear: 1. Does the user have to own a previous license for CS6 (or other legacy version), or does the CC license qualify to use both CC and the legacy version? 2. If a user stops the CC subscription after a year, is he...
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Adobe Issues Critical Security Update for Flash Player on Mac
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MacRumors ^
| Friday February 17, 2017 5:51 AM PST | by Joe Rossignol
Adobe this week released Flash Player version 24.0.0.221 to "address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system," including Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS. Mac users with Flash Player version 24.0.0.194 or earlier installed should immediately update to the latest version using the built-in
update mechanism. The update is also available from the Adobe Flash Player Download Center. Flash Player users who had enabled the option to "allow Adobe to install updates" will receive the update automatically. Likewise, Google Chrome will automatically update Flash Player to version 24.0.0.221. Select "About Google Chrome"...
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Update Installs Chrome Browser Extension (Privacy Alert!)
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Bleeping Computer ^
| Jan 11, 2017 | Catalin Cimpanu
Adobe released yesterday Acrobat Reader DC 15.023.20053 that included fixes for 29 security issues. Along
with the security fixes, this update package also silently installs the Adobe Acrobat extension into the user's Chrome web browser. The installation process is covert, but the next time users open their Chrome browser, they'll be notified by Chrome's security systems that a new extension has been added. The extensions name is Adobe Acrobat and is the same extension available through the Chrome Web Store. This extension allows users to save any web page they're on as a PDF file and share it or download...
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After 20 Minutes of Listening, New Adobe Tool Can Make You Say Anything
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Motherboard ^
| November 5, 2015 | Matthew Gault
Ever wanted to make Natalie Portman yell obscenities at your neighbors? What
if Garey Busey could leave your mother a sexy voicemail on her birthday? Wanted to prank your little brother by forcing him to call his crush and profess his love? Adobe has you covered. When Adobe released photoshop in 1990, it dreamed of a world where movie studios and photo editors could do in minutes what once took hours. It never dreamed the world would take the digital editor and use it to put celebrity heads on porn star bodies, distort women’s bodies in magazine cover, and create...
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Need help getting rid of Adobe Flash allow/deny icon
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May 18, 2016 | Self
The past few days a new nuisance with Adobe Flash has appeared on my computer. It's
an icon that asks to install an ad cookie on my computer. If you click deny, you don't get to view the video. Normally I wouldn't care, but some news clips I want to view. For example, there was a nice interview with Ivanka Trump on CBS News this morning and a FR thread about the disdain shown by the reporter in the questioning: http://www.freerepublic.com The question asks: "Allow CBS NEWS to store information on your computer?" Your choices are "Allow" or "Deny." Would...
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