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With the worrying spread of artificial intelligence within the artistic and creative sector, several platforms have been taken over byartificially generated material, much to the disappointment of users. Pinterest, Facebook, and TikTok are just three of the most affected apps, whose “human” content seems to be beco...

According to recent research conducted by Arturo Béjar, former senior engineer at Meta and current whistleblower, despite the much-touted new security tools implemented within Instagram, both children and teenagers are still extremely at risk when using the platform in question. In 2024, the company introduced “teen...

Recently, the independent news outlet 404 Media, owner of today's featured article and several other texts shared in the past, filed a lawsuit against the US federal agency ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is responsible for border security and immigration cont...

Browsing LinkedIn and agreeing to potential job interviews currently poses a tangible risk; the well-known platform has recently been the target of a series of hacker attacks carried out through the normal process required for hiring a new employee. According to reports, an Iranian hacker group known as UNC1549 is bel...

The article we are presenting today is not news in the strict sense of the term, but rather an in-depth digression on the relationship between the online environment (including memes, social media, and “online culture”) and the current state of violence as a political tool. On September 10, 2025, US political acti...

Today's article comes from Medium, an online publishing platform for written content such as articles and blogs, and was written by Kevin Beaumont for Double Pulsar, a publication run by the writer and specializing in cybersecurity. As the title suggests, according to recent developments, one of the biggest problems i...

Russia is widely recognized as a nation particularly enthusiastic about the art of political propaganda, both positive and negative. Promotional posters, radio programs, and books aimed at influencing public opinion about a foreign country or the internal situation within its own territory are not exactly foreign to Ru...

The advertising that the average viewer is exposed to on a daily basis usually comes from around 200 businesses. This is not an insignificant number, but the adverts broadcast on television or streaming services tend to become repetitive rather quickly, making ad breaks excessively annoying. According to Roku, a tech ...

Although completely blocking piracy sites may seem like the most immediate solution, it may not be the wisest choice for legislators, according to a recent policy brief by the Internet Society, the US-based international organization promoting Internet use and access. In the PDF mentioned above, the organization share...

Facial recognition technologies are becoming more effective by the day, reaching worrying levels. Several people involved in activism and protests have begun to cover their faces or apply make-up to make recognition more difficult. The intention is not to hide, but to prevent their presence at one event or another from...

During the most fragile periods of one's existence, it is normal to feel the need to turn to someone, a figure outside one's own life, someone who listens without judging, someone who is always there, someone who can offer support. There are several real-life figures who fulfil this role, but unfortunately, the current...

Life moves too fast, work is never-ending, time marches on relentlessly, leaving us behind. We miss out on chances, energy, opportunities because, at the end of the day, we only have one brain, and we don't have enough mental energy to keep up with everything. So, why not delegate some tasks to a second brain? Three f...

In mid-September, Collins Aerospace, known as a supplier of boarding and check-in management systems for various airlines around the world, was the victim of a cyberattack that caused delays and considerable disruption at several European airports. According to an analysis conducted the day after the attack, the breac...

The endless training of countless artificial intelligence models obviously requires huge amounts of data and content to feed these virtual monsters. To obtain enough “feed”, therefore, the companies responsible for training are involved in scraping the vast world of the internet, scraping the depths of platforms, w...

In a recent article in the newsroom, we reported how a journalist named Margaux Blanchard was, in fact, a completely fictional character who, obviously, artificially generated her own articles, repeatedly deceiving several newspapers, including Business Insider and Wired. The former subsequently stated that it had to ...

The current state of artificially generated content is worrying, to say the least. Every day, every minute, hundreds of images, videos, texts and songs created by the most famous artificial intelligence services are uploaded to the vast world of the internet, filling every corner of the digital landscape. YouTube, Spot...