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 Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram?

Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram?

2025-02-03 The Guardian
As mentioned in a recent article shared in our newsroom, Meta decided to abandon the use of fact-checkers within its platforms, exactly as X had decided in recent months. The company subsequently decided to implement ‘Community Notes’, anonymous comments explaining the accuracy (or otherwise) of a certain post, as ...
 A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions.

A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions.

2025-01-31 TheVerge
During the first week of January, renowned data broker Gravy Analytics published a notice detailing a serious data breach responsible for stealing precise location data from millions of people. According to the online news outlet TechCrunch, the incident in question involved data from a variety of different application...
 Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads.

Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads.

2025-01-30 TheVerge
The vast world of the Internet has confirmed itself over and over again as an immense source of information, an archive of knowledge accessible to anyone who has the chance. However, this vast collection is still free ground for any user, which means that anyone has the opportunity to write what they like, where they l...
 DeepSeek: The Chinese AI app that has the world talking.

DeepSeek: The Chinese AI app that has the world talking.

2025-01-29 BBC News
On 20 January 2025, the latest version of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence model of Chinese origin, was released in the app store. The app reached the top of the download charts in the Apple Store, causing quite an uproar among investors. The main characteristic of the model in question is the ‘low-cost’ natur...
 Disney Hit With Copyright Lawsuit For Moana 2 In The Middle Of Awards Season.

Disney Hit With Copyright Lawsuit For Moana 2 In The Middle Of Awards Season.

2025-01-28 Screenrant
Not even the US animation giant is immune to copyright infringement, it seems. Although it is news that usually receives little attention, the studio has been accused of this kind of infringement several times. In this case, the subject in question is the latest film released by the company: ‘Moana 2’. According t...
 Tipster Arrested After Feds Find AI Child Exploit Images and Plans to Make VR CSAM.

Tipster Arrested After Feds Find AI Child Exploit Images and Plans to Make VR CSAM.

2025-01-27 404 Media
Anthaney O'Connor, originally from Alaska, went from informant to suspect within a few investigations. The man had originally contacted the authorities to report an airman interested in child pornography, which he also shared with the informant himself. During the investigation,O'Connor consented to a police search of ...
 AI trial to spot heart condition before symptoms.

AI trial to spot heart condition before symptoms.

2025-01-24 BBC News
The use of artificial intelligence within the medical-scientific sphere is a topic we have investigated over and over again in the past, with the technology in question being particularly suited to tasks involving precision analysis, such as checking a patient's data for "red flags" - obviously always accompanied by hu...
 I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies.

I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies.

2025-01-23 404 Media
Very soon, the average audience will watch artificially generated films because they will be ‘too lazy to change the channel’. This is the plan of the Chinese entertainment and electronics sales giantTLC, which is currently embarking on the production, if you can call it that, of artificially generated films to be ...
 An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think.

An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think.

2025-01-22 BBC News
"Synaesthesia" is a sensory and perceptual phenomenon that indicates a kind of contamination of the senses in perception, mixing the realm of the five senses, merging the subject's different sensory experiences. To be more precise, an individual capable of distinguishing this phenomenon might associate a colour with a ...
 AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests.

AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests.

2025-01-21 BBC News
As mentioned several times in past articles, the usefulness of artificial intelligence in the medical field is undeniable; the potential of this tool is boundless, and proper development of its performance could make a huge difference. Indeed, within the medical sector, various tasks are entrusted to this technology on...
 ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show.

ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show.

2025-01-20 The Guardian
OpenAI has recently launched the ChatGPT search tool, a product that has been described as ‘revolutionary’ over and over again since its release in November 2022 - exclusively for its own paying customers, of course. However, according to today's reference article, the recently added search tool does not seem parti...
 APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI.

APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI.

2025-01-17 404 Media
In recent years, a particular Spongebob meme has reached the peak of online fame, laying the foundation for a new method of typing messages, usually with a certain tone of mockery. The meme shows the protagonist of the cartoon of the same name mocking his interlocutor, and is usually accompanied by a script whose text ...
 Cellebrite Unlocked This Journalist’s Phone. Cops Then Infected it With Malware.

Cellebrite Unlocked This Journalist’s Phone. Cops Then Infected it With Malware.

2025-01-16 404 Media
Nowadays, any electronic device is potentially subject to ‘invisible’ tampering. According to today's reference article, law enforcement officers in Serbia repeatedly unlocked several mobile phones and then infected them with malware. According to a new report by Amnesty International, a human rights organisation, ...
 ‘It’s beyond human scale’: AFP defends use of artificial intelligence to search seized phones and emails.

‘It’s beyond human scale’: AFP defends use of artificial intelligence to search seized phones and emails.

2025-01-15 The Guardian
Law enforcement agencies from all over the world are increasingly approaching the use of artificial intelligence within their personnel, implementing it as a tool to speed up investigations and to be able to achieve summarily satisfactory results within a short period of time. The Australian Federal Police has recentl...
 Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness.

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness.

2025-01-14 Wired
Artificial intelligence seems to have taken over the world in just under two years. The great ‘revolution’ began with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, making OpenAI and Sam Altman, its CEO, unprecedented celebrities within a few months. From that moment on, every company in the tech sector has been trying t...
 Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach.

Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach.

2025-01-13 TroyHunt
Nowadays, the most fascinating resource in the world, especially for the big tech companies that command the online landscape, is the invaluable data of every single user in the vast world of the Internet. Possessing the information needed to understand the habits, preferences and contacts of potential future customers...