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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...

Life is notoriously complex. No matter what kind of existence people lead, it usually becomes increasingly difficult to be able to pay attention to every area of daily life, be it friends, work or family. Nowadays, however, more and more tech companies are deciding to devote themselves to supposedly improving, or maint...

The beginning of 2025 has brought with it a variety of news in the tech sphere, from updates to popular artificial intelligence models to several new names emerging within the industry. Following the introduction of a new feature called “Operator” by both OpenAI and Claude, Microsoft recently unveiled a new feature...

Recently, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan watchdog group dedicated to investigating the federal government and its actions, released a report regarding the Pentagon's sudden push toward artificial intelligence. Titled “Defense Command and Control,” the document focuses on the proposed integ...

On April 3, 2025, a group of writers, authors and other publishing professionals went to the London headquarters of Meta, a leading tech company with a particular interest in AI, to protest the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in training the company's artificial intelligence model. This stance came about as a re...

In this day and age, there is no question that applications aimed at surveillance and tracking are crucial to being able to maintain a minimum of peace of mind. Considering the countless unpleasant news stories that are shared on a daily basis, the need to feel in control of your possessions, or to be able to know the ...

Recently, the United Kingdom has been the scene of a somewhat controversial proposal regarding the management of Copyright within the nation. The U.K. government floated the idea of providing blanket permission for AI models to access creative works (novels, articles, artwork and videos), unless the owners take the opt...

We have seen over and over again in the past the consequences of the misuse of artificial intelligence. The practice of deepfakes seems to have established itself as one of the favorite activities of hordes of abusers, as current technology has made the process somewhat simple, thus achieving “credible” results in ...

Ben Black, a Welsh freelance journalist, used to publish a “fictitious” article on April 1 every year, in honor of the April Fool's Day custom. Since 2018, he has been dedicated to constructing short fake news stories, characterized by a surreal and ironic vein, as to share a few laughs with Cwmbran Life readers. ...

During the last week of March, news broke of an attempted murder that occurred on O'ahu, one of Hawaii's most populated islands. A man attempted to kill his wife by pushing her off the edge of a well-known hiking trail following her refusal to take a photo together. The woman suffered serious injuries but is currently ...

The misuse of artificial intelligence seems to have recently landed in the job hunting arena. As a result of a survey conducted by the British website CharityJob, it was discovered that out of about 2,000 participants, just under half had used the mentioned technology in the application process. The extreme prevalence...

The desire to know, to gain knowledge and delve into what might seem inaccessible is a fundamental human characteristic. Investigating an individual's lineage, studying their past and those who have existed before, are rather complex research processes, activities beyond the reach of most people. In the past decade, h...

In 2022, human rights activist Tanya O'Carroll launched a lawsuit against one of the leading tech companies, Meta. According to the complaint, the company had refused the woman's requests to stop collecting and processing her data on Facebook, behavior that went against U.K. laws on handling personal data. The allegat...

The Saudi government could obtain endless amounts of data regarding the location of Pokémon Go players within some time. Niantic, the company responsible for the app, which is recognized as a worldwide phenomenon, is in fact selling it to Scopely, a company controlled by a Saudi company called Savvy Games. The latter ...