Android adds more scam checkpoints
Google is rolling out new Android scam defenses across calls, texts, and chat apps. An optional Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages uses cloud Gemini models to assess the context and intent of conversations with unknown senders, while Private AI Compute keeps that analysis inaccessible to Google, according to the company.
The mode also uses on-device Gemini Nano and live web signals to assess unfamiliar links before you tap. Separate safeguards blank login and payment fields during screen sharing, block apps from quietly enabling call forwarding, and warn before manually entered forwarding codes take effect. Enhanced protection is due in the coming weeks.
The brief matters more than the edit button
Creator Khulan used Claude, Suno, and DaVinci Resolve to assemble a 43-second Seoul travel video. She first prepared a soundtrack, 47 clips, sound effects, visual references, and precise directions for the story, pacing, text, effects, and format.
Claude then reviewed the footage, mapped cuts to the music, built a color grade, placed effects, and returned an editable Resolve timeline. The first cut was not final: Khulan gave notes tied to specific moments, and the project reached its exported version after four rounds. It is a useful demonstration of handing timeline work to an agent while keeping creative direction and revision with the person.
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- Control Photoshop through ChatGPT Glyn Dewis tests color correction, a long-exposure sky effect, and fine-hair masking, with prompts that preserve editable layers and avoid overwriting the original.
- Let Copilot combine several models GitHub says HydraFusion now varies reasoning effort by step and can use parallel critics; it remains a research preview on eligible paid plans.
- Inspect simulated extreme weather at 3 km resolution Ai2 says HiRO-ACEv2 generates detailed rain, wind, and pressure data at roughly one three-hundredth the cost of X-SHiELD, with models, notebooks, and a visual demo available.
- See a three-hour game-generation experiment Simon Willison reports that Claude built an animated spot-the-difference game about algorithmically generated trees from one short prompt.
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