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The last weekend of August saw Pavel Durov as the protagonist of a rather surprising event, which subsequently shook the entire Internet landscape. The founder of the messaging application Telegram was seized and detained by the French authorities. According to a subsequent press release from the Paris Judicial Court,...

The founder and president of the famous online messaging platform Telegram has recently come under the spotlight of the European media. The man, whose name is Pavel Durov, was accused of a series of crimes following an investigation by the French authorities in July. His platform is often the subject of various, usual...

In a single lifetime, it's impossible to listen to half of all the music on this planet. Thanks to Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music, most internet users can listen to whatever they like at the click of a button. However, this does not mean that all the music created and distributed on Earth is currently available onlin...

Becoming a criminal nowadays seems to be a rather simple activity to undertake - on most online platforms, such as Tiktok, Telegram and YouTube, it's quite easy to come across tutorials and guides on how to carry out a number of particularly current crimes, including ‘sextortion’. The term indicates a form of onli...

As mentioned in an article published last week, the renowned company OpenAI, one of the major leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and owner of the chatbot ChatGPT, recently entered into a multi-year agreement with Condé Nast, the US publisher responsible for titles such asVogue, Wired and The New Yorker. It...

California State Senator Scott Wiener recently received an unexpected letter. Famous for introducing SB 1047, also known as the ‘Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act’, the intent of this bill is to establish general standards before proceeding with the development of more power...

Cheyenne, the capital of the US state of Wyoming, recently had a rather peculiar experience. Earlier this year, a man named Victor Miller proposed his candidacy for mayor of the city, accompanied by a rather unusual assistant: a chatbot. More precisely, the AI in question is called ‘Vic’ (Virtual Integrated Citize...

It is somewhat ironic that a company that is used to receiving copyright infringement complaints, whether from small artists or big brands, is now on the other side of the story. Shein, the Chinese online fast fashion giant, recently shared some outrage at the practices of its competitor and compatriot Temu. In fact, ...

It is not unusual to discover that one of the leading companies in the technology sector, universally acknowledged as being responsible for the spread of AI chatbots, uses less than fair practices to train its artificial intelligence services. OpenAI cyclically returns to the spotlight, and this time it seems to have f...

Artificial intelligence, as has been mentioned many times in the past, is not an inherently evil tool - its use, more precisely, is what dictates its positive or negative tendency. However,the constant stream of rather shameful news seems to be the order of the day, inevitably influencing public opinion of the technolo...

Who would have thought that following the celestial routes of aircrafts would lead to the possibility of finding one's data mistakenly leaked online? FlightAware, the famous US flight-tracking platform, recently issued a notice to its users: in it, the company strongly advised users to reset their account passwords, fo...

Do you need advertising done and finished but don't have the time, money or people to take care of it? No problem, Klaxon AI cansolve your problems. In fact, the Peterborough-based start-up has recently received funding from the UK Innovation Agency to create an ‘ad generator’ for podcasts. It will be available fr...

Man, since the dawn of civilisation, has always had a certain desire for money, a clear need to collect it, to possess more and more of it - often and willingly, by obtaining it through methods that are not exactly correct, or legal. The vast world of the Internet has made these processes even easier. Vice, the newspa...

Among the articles presented during last week's publication, we devoted space to a text concerning unethical decisions made by the US technology company Nvidia, published by 404 Media. Today, we bring you the continuation of what we reported in the previous post. Following the article mentioned, Youtuber David Millett...

The Internet holds countless data for even a single user, it is now common knowledge that what is shared over the network will always remain within the eternal labyrinth that is the online environment. Nowadays, perhaps it is better to heed those usual warnings that suggest changing passwords, or making them more secur...

It seems that the famous multi-billionaire owner of X (formerly known as Twitter) has recently been having fun fomenting turmoil and tension regarding new UK legislation on his own platform. During the first week of August, the Canadian entrepreneur behind Tesla, X and OpenAI decided to use the mentioned social media t...