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 TechScape: Why Musk’s rabble-rousing shows the limits of social media laws.

TechScape: Why Musk’s rabble-rousing shows the limits of social media laws.

2024-08-26 The Guardian
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...
 Growing demand on the dark web for AI abuse images.

Growing demand on the dark web for AI abuse images.

2024-08-23 BBC News
As mentioned several times in the past, artificial intelligence is not an inherently evil technology, the use one decides to make of it is what dictates its ethics. Nowadays, there are a variety of image generation services using this technology, and both the training of these models and their use tend to be controvers...
 OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode.

OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode.

2024-08-22 WIRED
Renowned artificial intelligence systems, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI, have established themselves as an integral part of many users' lives - some even seem to have developed emotional relationships with these technological aids. ChatGPT, besides being a sort of ‘fan-favourite’ for fans of the field, m...
 The AI tech aiming to identify future Olympians.

The AI tech aiming to identify future Olympians.

2024-08-21 BBC News
The Olympics ended just before the middle of August 2024, and their closure has shed light on other Olympic activities taking place during the Games. A short distance from the Paris Olympic Stadium, there is an area dedicated to a series of tests based on artificial intelligence, the aim of which is to identify possibl...
Online games likely to be hit if strikes continue - union.

Online games likely to be hit if strikes continue - union.

2024-08-20 BBC News
As presented in our recent article on the subject, the famous strike that shocked Hollywood in the second half of last year seems to have found a worthy successor within the video game industry. If the situation is not resolved soon, the entire online video game economy could suffer. A month after the strike began, al...
 Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI.

Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI.

2024-08-19 404 Media
According to a document obtained by the media outlet responsible for today's reference article, the famous US tech company Nvidia is using vast amounts of data extracted from YouTube videos to train its artificial intelligence services. The company, universally famous thanks to its graphics processors, has defended its...
 Telegram Combolists and 361M Email Addresses.

Telegram Combolists and 361M Email Addresses.

2024-08-16 Troy Hunt
What ensures you that your data is safe? What assures you that your e-mail address, password and username are private knowledge, reserved exclusively for you? The world of the Internet is a gold mine for those intent on living off the backs of others. Today's reference article tells how a security researcher stumbled a...
 Microsoft Windows unwitting victim of the Supply-Chain. What the CrowdStrike incident can teach us.

Microsoft Windows unwitting victim of the Supply-Chain. What the CrowdStrike incident can teach us.

2024-08-15 Red Hot Cyber
On 19 July, the entire online universe on which we have come to rely fell victim to a considerably 'problematic' situation. On that Friday in July, the world woke up deprived of the most diverse services: from booking flights and appointments, to accessing financial accounts. During the incident, 8.5 million Windows d...
 North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware.

North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware.

2024-08-14 Ars Technica
Nowadays, no one is completely immune to the clever persuasion that artificial intelligence is able to deploy - not even security providers themselves, companies whose goal is to help their customers avoid falling into cyber traps. KnowBe4, a platform dedicated to security training and phishing simulation aimed at rai...
 Elite athletes face appalling online abuse. This Games, the Paris Olympics is trying to shield them from it.

Elite athletes face appalling online abuse. This Games, the Paris Olympics is trying to shield them from it.

2024-08-13 BBC
The Paris Olympics have come to an end, but their impact on the online world will not end anytime soon. Between victories and dissatisfactions, there have been many opportunities to learn more about the athletes who participated in the 2024 Olympic Games, their performances dominating the entertainment landscape both o...
 Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

2024-08-12 The Guardian
First of all, who are the big seven tech companies? We are talking about the giants of the tech market, those who have ruled the industry for years now: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta and Tesla. However, recently the big seven have entered 'correction territory',which means that their combined share p...
 Online security lapses led to data of 40m UK voters being hacked, says ICO.

Online security lapses led to data of 40m UK voters being hacked, says ICO.

2024-08-09 The Guardian
When it comes to online security, one can never be too thorough or, in the case of the UK's watchdog, too little. The Information Commissioner's Office, in fact, recently reported that the Electoral Commission, currently in the spotlight thanks to last month's election, had not updated its security measures to protect ...
 TechScape: Will OpenAI’s $5bn gamble on chatbots pay off? Only if you use them.

TechScape: Will OpenAI’s $5bn gamble on chatbots pay off? Only if you use them.

2024-08-08 The Guardian
Is the great fascination with chatbots fading? According to the article in The Guardian that we're introducing today, and according to the statistics presented, the era of infatuation with this kind of artificial intelligence is coming to an end. As useful, immediate and almost futuristic as they appear, chatbots requi...
 Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones).

Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones).

2024-08-07 404 Media
Nowadays, it's not enough protecting ourselves from cybercriminals intent on stealing private information, we must also pay close attention to so-called 'AI scrapers': computer programmes created to collect data from websites and then use them in the training of generative AI models. Following the impressive rise of t...
 Neuralink has implanted second trial patient with brain chip, Elon Musk says.

Neuralink has implanted second trial patient with brain chip, Elon Musk says.

2024-08-06 The Guardian
Neuralink, the famous American neurotechnology company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk, has recently started testing its flagship product. After developing its own brain-computer interface that can be implanted inside patients' brain matter, the process of finding a subject willing to test the device has begun. The f...
 Bitcoin price hits six-week high after Trump backs cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin price hits six-week high after Trump backs cryptocurrency.

2024-08-05 The Guardian
After months of apparent silence regarding cryptocurrencies, a recent announcement by former US President Donald Trump seems to be changing the fortunes of the bitcoin market. Due to the rapid rise and spread of artificial intelligence, followed of course by intense media coverage, the crypto economy has fallen victim ...