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The rapid development of artificial intelligence is not limited to specific fields; nowadays, this technology is implemented and used within any environment - whether users are aware of it or not seems to be optional, most of the time. Researchers at Amazon Web Services AI recently discovered that more than half of th...

An extensive article that attempts (or perhaps not) to offer an insight into what will be the hottest topics of 2024 when it comes to technology, including cyber-crime, artificial intelligence supremacy and the metaverse. The article offers an (in our opinion) interesting overview of how Musk led the Twitter platform ...

The world of fan-art, fan-merch and fan-fiction resides in a copyright grey area, not because it is uncovered, but because legal action is taken at the discretion of the copyright holder of the original work. The case of Valve (Steam) confirms the rule, making takedown requests (DMCA) of the GIT repositories of the Te...

Gallery System, a provider of a cloud services solution for the museum world, suffered a ransomware attack on December 28th that rendered its systems, which allow users to search and view works from various museums, unusable. The impact of this incident could have wider repercussions than indicated, as the company rep...

Newsquest, the UK's second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers, is responsible for the management of over 200 titles including the Glasgow Herald, the Brighton and Hove Argus and the Lancashire Telegraph. Recently, the media group has shown great resourcefulness towards current technology by hiring eight...

The New York Times, a famous US newspaper, recently sued two giant companies that have been in the spotlight again and again over the past year. The lawsuit sees OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, and Microsoft, as parties to be held liable for billions of dollars in damages. As repeatedly stated, OpenAi used, and uses, severa...

The use of artificial intelligence in politics is not exactly new; whether it is politicians preparing their election campaign from prison, or fake videos documenting speeches by heads of state that never took place, this new technology has often been the talk of the town. More precisely, the technology considered in ...

The famous artificial intelligence models currently in circulation are trained using thousands and thousands of pieces of information from online datasets, composed of content found in the vast world of the Internet - without any kind of filtering. One of the most widely used datasets is LAION-5B, created by the non-pr...

The ISD (Institute for Strategic Dialogue), a British non-profit political advocacy organisation, recently released a new report concerning the actions of the CCP, the Communist Party of China. According to the document in question, the aforementioned party is spreading memes portraying Biden as a tyrant with warlike t...

During the last months of 2023, the website of the British Library, the UK's national library, was the target of a serious cyber attack. The latter was perpetrated by the ransomware group 'Rhysida', which publicly announced its intention to auction the stolen information. Subsequent investigations revealed that the at...

Given recent developments in the field, this kind of news is not exactly a bolt out of the blue. Between accusations of misinformation and the failure to remove terms related to the world of artificial intelligence-generated pornography, the social network originally known as Twitter is perpetually in the spotlight. I...

The 'Lord of the Rings' universe boasts a certain level of fame, honourably achieved, as well as a considerable community of fans and would-be successors. Such a saga can only change the world, leaving its mark and inspiring those interested in the content. Recently, fanfiction writer Demetrious Polychron opened a leg...

The famous newspaper is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of journalistic content to train the ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing Chat (now Copilot) engines. In negotiations that lasted for months and later ceased, OpenAI insisted that the use of the Times' content fell under 'fair-use', as it served to generate transfo...

The misuse that certain individuals make of artificial intelligence never seems to reach rock bottom. Recently, the former Pakistani premier decided to use this rising star of technology to build and broadcast his campaign directly from prison. After being charged with corruption, Imran Khan was imprisoned for three y...

VF corp, the parent company of Vans, Supreme and The North Face, recently reported a misfortune that occurred at the most influential time of the year. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, the company was the victim of a serious cyber attack. As a result of this unfortunate development, the companies involved are...

The Christmas season always brings news, whether positive or negative. Less than a week before the fateful day, the US has issued an order banning the sale and import of certain specific watches belonging to the Apple company. Recently, it was discovered that the latter had infringed the product's patent rights. More ...