World News

The tech giant OpenAI always seems to be the centre of attention, for better or worse. During August 2024, a researcher had left the company, expressing a certain level of concern regarding some unethical decisions implemented by the company. Suchir Balaji's departure from OpenAI caused more movement than desired: the...

As mentioned in other reference articles published in recent weeks, the exodus of X users has not gone unnoticed. For months, if not years now, US entrepreneur Elon Musk's platform had been losing prestige: the quality of content and the app's satisfaction index had been declining since the name change in summer 2023. ...

In Tajueco, a small village located in the autonomous community of Castile and León, live approximately 115 inhabitants, accustomed to a simple and quiet life, rather rural in comparison with new habits. Consequently, when faced with the passage of the famous Google machine, used to provide the images needed for ‘st...

While Italy grapples with new laws implemented in the traffic code, the state of New York seems to be struggling with excessive surveillance on its streets. The city in question is plastered with traffic cameras, placed in plain sight on every corner, intersection or lamppost. To make the general public aware of this ...

Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday life for most users of the vast world of the Internet, and its eternal and devious presence is unfortunately undeniable. Despite being a tool with amazing potential, its misuse reduces it to a generator of cheap contentwith which to further fill the online landscape. The...

The East Yorkshire area in England seems to be a perfect example of how the implementation of artificial intelligence in the medical field can benefit the industry. The city of Hull, in March 2023, proposed the use of an application aimed at symptom control for patients suffering from chronic respiratory diseases, run ...

The UK Office of Communications, known as Ofcom, is a government-approved regulatory authority responsible for communications within the nation. Recently, the institution published a series of codes of conduct aimed at regulating and managing illegal online content by companies. The new Online Safety Act (OSA) regulat...

The fight between the United States of America and the famous Tiktok platform has been going on for years now; the US Appeals Courthas been responsible for several proposals regarding a possible removal of the application from the state, supported by the government itself, however, no proper solution has yet been reach...

What could be the natural successor of chatbots, if not virtual agents? We have officially entered the ‘agentic’ era of the big tech companies specialising in artificial intelligence systems. Indeed, the buzzword of the industry giants, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, is agent - a new type of AI assistant, ...

Adolescence is universally recognised as a rather complex time, both for the adolescents themselves, who are grappling with some substantial changes in their personality and mental health, and for the parents involved, who are often struggling with the changes in their offspring. During this period of life, therefore, ...

More and more big names in international publishing are approaching artificial intelligence. Renowned powerhouses in the field have recently proposed a fair number of agreements with various companies, as to gain access to various information-rich archives, an extremely valuable resource for the development of AI syste...

OpenAI officially became a ‘for-profit’ company. Although the company also ran a for-profit division, it was always overseen by a non-profit board of directors whose mission focused on potential benefit to humanity - recently, however, OpenAI opted for a conventional corporate structure. In addition to this notabl...

We recently published a blurb regarding a reference article in which Niantic, the company responsible for the Pokémon Go phenomenon, shared a project called the ‘Large Geospatial Model’: a kind of highly detailed, technologically interacting map of the world, built from data collected by users of the application o...

Following an impressive series of questionable choices made by US entrepreneur Elon Musk, a large number of X (formerly known as Twitter) users decided to remove themselves from the platform, in favour of a new social media still in its infancy. BlueSky, an application born out of a previous internal Twitter project, t...

Today's reference article takes the form of a brief, albeit comprehensive, exposition of some of the key elements of online security. Based on a presentation given by Sebastian Zdrojewski at this year's GDPR Day, it revolves around the topic of hacking, VPNs, NIS2 and the supply chain. Any ‘IP address’ in the vast...

The article we offer you today is quite different from what has been proposed in the past. The article on the MagIA.news website presents itself as a careful and meticulous analysis of the anti-piracy law 93/2023- containing ‘provisions for the prevention and repression of the unlawful dissemination of copyright-prot...