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The Most Stunning Black Images of 2025
As the year comes to a close, we've rounded up some of the most stunning Black images of 2025.
MTG's Universes Beyond became the clear focus in 2025
Records sales with the Final Fantasy set and a shifting release strategy made 2025 a major turning point for the trading card game.
Nicki Minaj Just Proved Why So Many Black Celebrities Are Out of Touch
OPINION: Nicki Minaj appearing at the Turning Point USA festival is yet another example of our Black celebs demonstrating that they don't have our best interests at heart.
How AI broke the smart home in 2025
This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time […]
Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak (Reece Rogers/Wired)
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak — Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.