[872] Error including a .png file as image src. alpha v 3/4

<template lang="html">
  <div>
    <h1>Hello world!</h1>
    <img src="~assets/img/logo.png" alt="">
  </div>
</template>

Nuxt.js Error:

Error: Module parse failed: [...]/assets/img/logo.png Unexpected character '�' (1:0)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
[...]

Tested this with a clean install of version 1.0.0 alpha 3 and 4. node v8.0.0 npm v5.0.3