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"This morning I walked out of the supermarket, someone said hi and asked for directions. I was furious! Like, don't people able to mind their business anymore?" "Yeah, makes sense. It's not even about the "hi"or directions - it's the intrusion. [...] it's like they don't realize they're taking something - your attenti...

There are people who devote their entire existence to a very specific mission, whether it is to protect their fellow man in wartime contexts, or to safeguard the precious cultural assets that make up a nation's current and historical identity. Like FBI investigator Ronnie Walker, who prepared for years to go undercover...

The use of artificial intelligence to generate documents for later use within legal contexts is not exactly new; in years past, at the beginning of the impressive rise experienced by the technology in question, several legal professionals were reprimanded for submitting documents containing typical “hallucinations”...

During the early 2000s there was a widespread practice of including anti-piracy advertising at the beginning of films shown in theaters, and later also within content transposed to DVD. The campaign in question was promoted by the Motion Picture Association of America, an association formed to promote the interests of ...

We recently had occasion to mention the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an investigative branch of the U.S. federal government that reports directly to Congress. As the supreme oversight institution of the entire nation, it is known as the “watchdog” of the state and is responsible for maintaining integrity...

The idea of having to connect to the Internet in order to immerse in a multiplayer game is completely normal nowadays. A connection to the vast online world is essential, otherwise it would be impossible to be able to interact with other players. However, when it comes to single-player video games it should not be nece...

Artificial intelligence is making its way within the daily lives of the vast majority of individuals, whether through professional use or unwanted implementation in social media. The general opinion of industry leaders has, of course, always been quite positive, highlighting a certain degree of confidence in the apprec...

Who doesn't like to take shortcuts from time to time? Preferring the quick and easy, if morally less appropriate, path when faced with a long and winding alternative might be understandable, depending on the context and situation at hand. Nevertheless, avoiding abusing the human tendency to continue on the easier path ...

In recent years, YouTube's algorithm has proven increasingly corrupted by the relentless need to share negative, hate-filled news, aimed at spreading information, yes, but with a discreet focus on malice. Several studies have shown that the platform currently tends to push content that amplifies negativity to the front...

In December 2024, the Cleo Communications company was the victim of a cyber attack by the Clop ransomware cybergang. The breach occurred due to a zero-day vulnerability present in the file transfer platforms used to send sensitive files with its employees. As a result, several names have been implicated within the affa...

Within the Bay Area, a metropolitan area surrounding San Francisco, California, several humanities projects were able to remain viable and continue their initiatives thanks to grants from the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), an independent US government agency dedicated to supporting research in the humanit...

Current artificial intelligence systems are undoubtedly characterized by clear preferences - biases, some would say. Considering the origin of the materials to “train” these models, whether LLMs (large language models) or AI generators of visual content, it is now generally known that the results provided by these ...

According to a recent report by a researcher at SentinelOne, a US company specializing in cybersecurity, a new trend is spreading in the online scam landscape. Several scammers appear to be using AkiraBot, a program whose main task is to fill the comment sections and chats of websites with artificially generated messag...

Yesterday, April 28, 2025, shortly after noon, a power outage affected the entire Iberian Peninsula, including a reduced area of southern France, leaving millions of people in Spain and Portugal without electricity. The sudden outage affected several sectors within the countries, creating major disruptions in transport...

Despite the fact that security in the IT field is a top priority in the vast majority of companies, businesses, and corporations, it seems that keeping up a valid protection is becoming increasingly difficult. As a result of this rapid rise of artificial intelligence, and related technologies, a point of real exasperat...

There is a term in the internet world, now somewhat unfashionable, that perfectly describes the reason behind this never-ending rush to yet another trend that is all the rage within social media. Originating in the social context of interpersonal relationships, especially on dating occasions, the acronym “FOMO” (fe...