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The Elf on the Shelf just teamed up with Disney -- where to shop Harry Potter and Mickey Mouse collabs

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Trending Now Say More Look Up In My Bag Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable @Home Mashable Selects Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook AI at School Safety Net All Series Your Scout Elf can now rock Disney Princess gowns and Mickey PJs all December long. Soumya is a deals writer who covers consumer tech, shopping deals, and the products people use every day. With experience writing about everything from AI tools and software to smartphones and home gadgets, she enjoys breaking down product research into clear, useful recommendations. When she's not tracking deals, she's usually comparing products, digging through reviews, and figuring out what actually makes a purchase worth it. All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.


NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for August 16, 2026

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Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series Today's will be easier if you've ever watched baseball. As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original, the game is all about finding the common threads between words. And just like, resets after midnight, and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier -- so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest solution.


NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for August 16, 2026

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Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series Everything you need to solve'Connections' #1162. The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're familiar with musical theater. The game is all about finding the common threads between words. And just like, resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier--so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's solution.


Wordle today: Answer, hints for August 16, 2026

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Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to Wordle #1884. Can't get enough of Wordle? Today's answer should be easy to solve if you enjoy French cuisine. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.


Disneys Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is getting his own TV miniseries

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Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is getting his own TV miniseries Oswald is older than Mickey Mouse. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit will star in a live-action animated miniseries in 2027. Before there was Donald Duck or Goofy or even Mickey Mouse, there was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. And now Oswald is finally getting his very own TV miniseries. At this year's D23 fan event, Disney announced that Oswald the Lucky Rabbit will star in a live-action animated three-part TV miniseries on Disney+.


Kingdom Hearts first-ever anime TV series coming to Disney

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Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series The popular Square Enix video game starring Mickey Mouse and friends is getting a TV show. The hit video game series Kingdom Hearts is getting its own TV show on Disney+. The next time is on your television screen, you might not be playing it as a video game but watching it as an anime TV series. A slew of Disney-related movies and TV shows have been announced over the past 24 hours as part of D23, the company's annual fan event, which is currently taking place in Anaheim, California. Disney announced that an anime TV series based on the video game franchise will debut soon on Disney+'s streaming platform and the Disney Channel.


Disney to invest 1bn in OpenAI, allowing use of characters in video generation tool

The Guardian

Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse floats at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, on 3 April 2025. Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse floats at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, on 3 April 2025. Walt Disney has announced a $1bn equity investment in OpenAI, enabling the AI start-up's Sora video generation tool to use its characters. Users of Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that draw on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters as part of a three-year licensing agreement between OpenAI and the entertainment giant. A selection of the videos made by users will also be available for streaming on the Disney+ platform. Bob Iger, Disney's CEO, hailed a deal which paired his firm's "iconic stories and characters" with OpenAI's AI technology.


Few-Shot Concept Unlearning with Low Rank Adaptation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Image Generation models are a trending topic nowadays, with many people utilizing Artificial Intelligence models in order to generate images. There are many such models which, given a prompt of a text, will generate an image which depicts said prompt. There are many image generation models, such as Latent Diffusion Models, Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models, Generative Adversarial Networks and many more. When generating images, these models can generate sensitive image data, which can be threatening to privacy or may violate copyright laws of private entities. Machine unlearning aims at removing the influence of specific data subsets from the trained models and in the case of image generation models, remove the influence of a concept such that the model is unable to generate said images of the concept when prompted. Conventional retraining of the model can take upto days, hence fast algorithms are the need of the hour. In this paper we propose an algorithm that aims to remove the influence of concepts in diffusion models through updating the gradients of the final layers of the text encoders. Using a weighted loss function, we utilize backpropagation in order to update the weights of the final layers of the Text Encoder componet of the Stable Diffusion Model, removing influence of the concept from the text-image embedding space, such that when prompted, the result is an image not containing the concept. The weighted loss function makes use of Textual Inversion and Low-Rank Adaptation.We perform our experiments on Latent Diffusion Models, namely the Stable Diffusion v2 model, with an average concept unlearning runtime of 50 seconds using 4-5 images.


Automatic Jailbreaking of the Text-to-Image Generative AI Systems

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recent AI systems have shown extremely powerful performance, even surpassing human performance, on various tasks such as information retrieval, language generation, and image generation based on large language models (LLMs). At the same time, there are diverse safety risks that can cause the generation of malicious contents by circumventing the alignment in LLMs, which are often referred to as jailbreaking. However, most of the previous works only focused on the text-based jailbreaking in LLMs, and the jailbreaking of the text-to-image (T2I) generation system has been relatively overlooked. In this paper, we first evaluate the safety of the commercial T2I generation systems, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, on copyright infringement with naive prompts. From this empirical study, we find that Copilot and Gemini block only 12% and 17% of the attacks with naive prompts, respectively, while ChatGPT blocks 84% of them. Then, we further propose a stronger automated jailbreaking pipeline for T2I generation systems, which produces prompts that bypass their safety guards. Our automated jailbreaking framework leverages an LLM optimizer to generate prompts to maximize degree of violation from the generated images without any weight updates or gradient computation. Surprisingly, our simple yet effective approach successfully jailbreaks the ChatGPT with 11.0% block rate, making it generate copyrighted contents in 76% of the time. Finally, we explore various defense strategies, such as post-generation filtering and machine unlearning techniques, but found that they were inadequate, which suggests the necessity of stronger defense mechanisms.


Sex, Drugs, and AI Mickey Mouse

WIRED

On January 1, Mike Neville gave Midjourney the following prompt: "Steamboat Willie drawn in a vintage Disney style, black and white. He is dripping all over with white gel." There's no polite way to describe what this prompt conjured from the AI image generator. It looks, very much, like Mickey Mouse is drenched in ejaculate. At the start of every year, a crop of cultural works enters the public domain in the United States.