Abstract: High-quality image captions play a crucial role in improving the performance of cross-modal applications such as text-to-image generation, text-to-video generation, and text-image retrieval.

Key cyber updates on ransomware, cloud intrusions, phishing, botnets, supply-chain risks, and nation-state threat activity.

Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky.

Hundreds Rally in Portland at Two Vigils to Protest the Killing of Renee Good by ICE Agents Several hundred people attended three different vigils and demonstrations this evening to protest the ...

It’s beginning to feel a lot like high-school soccer season. This week’s strong cold front prompted Baytown Lee High School Boys’ Varsity Soccer players and Lee feeder elementary schoolers to bundle ...

Thanks to the latest Windows 11 update you can now reduce the size of image files before sharing them with one of the neat new applications offered. To do this, right-click on the image file and go to ...

ADENA, O.H. (WTRF) — Buckeye West Elementary is excited to introduce their new reading program thanks to the help of JSW Steel. Today the local organization donated 1,000 dollars to the school in ...

Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heavy criticism from across the world for letting users ...

A 53-year-old Reading man has been arrested and is facing a litany of charges, including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and other offenses after, police ...

For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...

The jsPDF library for generating PDF documents in JavaScript applications is vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to steal sensitive data from the local filesystem by ...

The Hickory Public Library announced a revamp of its 1000 Books Before Kindergarten reading challenge, an initiative designed to instill a love of reading in young children while preparing them for ...