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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...

Artificial intelligence has always been regarded solely and exclusively as a tool, a valuable resource with enormous potential, unfortunately used too often out of proportion. Its ‘mechanical’ aspect has never been questioned: it is a machine, a technology under development, nothing more. Considering recent develo...

Within the medical-scientific sector, it is of paramount importance to pay attention to the information that is communicated, especially from the point of view of veracity and accuracy. What is communicated within hospitals, clinics and similar environments has the potential to change patients' lives - it is therefore ...

The era of Large Language Models (LLMs) seems to have just reached its zenith, with the constant updates of ChatGPT and similar services demonstrating the constant use of these innovations - however, a rather eye-catching novelty seems ready to emerge from around the corner: Large Geospatial Models (LGMs), recently int...

As mentioned in a recent article in this section, several companies specialised in artificial intelligence have begun to approach the literary environment. The aim is to gain access to countless published titles and, consequently, consent to use what they write as material to feed to AI models undergoing ‘training’...

The english speaking world has, for years now, boasted a group of publishing houses called ‘The Big 5’. Consisting of HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster, the group is responsible for publishing English-language texts for the British-American market. HarperCollins recentl...

The ability to remember what has been learned and build connections has always been regarded as exclusively human - however, the development of artificial intelligence seems determined to change this idea. In the past year, several tech companies have implemented some kind of ‘intelligent memory’ within their AI mo...