Chaintech AA6800 OC Video Card Review

By Ian Bell September 18, 2004

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Computing

Your American Express credit card info may have been hacked

American Express has put out a data breach advisory after third-party merchants experienced a hacking incident targeting its payment hardware, as reported by Bleeping Computer.

The financial services company detailed that the breach occurred in Massachusetts and is associated with an "American Express Travel Related Services Company." It resulted in several merchants suffering "unauthorized access to its system." Customers' credit card information, including account numbers, names, and card expiration data, may have been exposed in the process.

Computing

How to make a GIF from a YouTube video

Sometimes, whether you're chatting with friends or posting on social media, words just aren't enough -- you need a GIF to fully convey your feelings. If there's a moment from a YouTube video that you want to snip into a GIF, the good news is that you don't need complex software to so it. There are now a bunch of ways to make a GIF from a YouTube video right in your browser.

If you want to use desktop software like Photoshop to make a GIF, then you'll need to download the YouTube video first before you can start making a GIF. However, if you don't want to go through that bother then there are several ways you can make a GIF right in your browser, without the need to download anything. That's ideal if you're working with a low-specced laptop or on a phone, as all the processing to make the GIF is done in the cloud rather than on your machine. With these options you can make quick and fun GIFs from YouTube videos in just a few minutes.
Use GIFs.com for great customization
Step 1: Find the YouTube video that you want to turn into a GIF (perhaps a NASA archive?) and copy its URL.

Computing

OpenAI’s new AI-made videos are blowing people’s minds

An AI image portraying two mammoths that walk through snow, with mountains and a forest in the background.

OpenAI's latest venture into AI might be its most impressive one to date. Dubbed "Sora," this new text-to-video AI model has just opened its doors to a limited number of users who will get to test it. The company launched it by showing several videos made entirely by AI, and the end results are shockingly realistic.

OpenAI introduces Sora by saying that it can create realistic scenes based on text prompts, and the videos shared on its website serve to prove it. The prompts are descriptive, but short; I've personally used longer prompts just interacting with ChatGPT. For instance, to generate the video of wooly mammoths pictured above, Sora required a 67-word prompt that described the animals, the surroundings, and the camera placement.