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On April 18, former US President Donald Trump released a second collection of digital trading cards, with tens of thousands of new collectibles available for minting. (Mining an NFT is equivalent to adding the information of a token to a specific blockchain) Online, Trump wrote over and over again about how lenient he...

Smallville is a small 2D ludic environment used by researchers from Stanford and Google: through the use of ChatGPT, experts have generated 25 human-like characters, to then insert them within this fictitious city. The protagonists of this experiment are characterized by a sort of daily routine, including breakfast and...

Many freelancers are considering changing careers to become ChatGPT "whisperers". But is it a legitimate job or just another short-lived gold rush? A Reddit user recounted his experience in a post on the platform, explaining that due to ChatGPT he lost his most important customer, thus having to change jobs and become...

German artist Boris Eldagsen submitted a photograph titled 'Pseudomania: The Electrician' as an entry to the Sony World Photography Award competition, winning the 'open creativity' category. Following the results, announced last week, the artist revealed that the work he submitted had been artificially generated by an...

The ChatGPT AI chatbot produces content that can appear to be created by a human. There are many proposed uses for this specific technology, but its extraordinary capabilities raise important questions about content ownership rights. Two main questions arise when it comes to copyright and AI-generated content: The fir...

In early March, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he would open-source the code the platform uses to recommend related tweets to users on March 31. Within days of the date, substantial portions of the social network's code were illegally released on GitHub. Following a copyright infringement notice issued by Twitter against ...

The "Internet Archive" service, founded in 1996, is a non-profit project aimed at establishing a sort of online library, with the intention of offering permanent access to historical collections to researchers and experts. Unlike standard library systems, this archive obtains items and texts through donations and direc...

In late March, gaming giant Sony filed a patent to make NFTs transferable and usable within various games, consoles, and devices. The license specifically states that players would be able to transfer their in-game assets from one console to another, as well as from one game to another, further including computers, ph...

Various banks in the United States and Europe use voice recognition as a secure method to access accounts through simple calls; the writer of the article shares his experience regarding this practice inside the post. Using free or low-cost AI, it is possible to generate voices that are convincing enough to bypass speec...

Two days after the release of GPT-4, "the most capable and consistent model" so far, some amateur developers have managed to bypass the service's moderation filters, coming face to face with an Artificial Intelligence capable of providing information on how to hack a computer and explanations on "why Mexicans should be...

Meta, the well-known company behind two of the mainstay platforms of modern social networks, is gradually moving away from the NFT landscape when it comes to its social media. Through a thread on Twitter, the managers of the area have communicated that Meta will end its tests dedicated to the minting of NFT on both pla...

Physical artifacts from the shipwreck of the Titanic will soon be turned into tokens to be sold on the NFT market. The partnership includes the company that holds exclusive salvage rights to the wreck and its site, called RMS Titanic, along with Artifact Labs' Web3 company and Venture Smart Financial Holdings (VSFG). ...

OpenAi's new service, called GPT-4, was recently released to the public. One day after the release of the program, a student was able to discover serious vulnerabilities in the security of the service, possibly exploitable for malicious purposes. Alex Albert, a computer science student at the University of Washington,...

1. During Pwn2Own, an annual hacking competition held in March in Vancouver, a group of French hackers won $100,000 and a Tesla Model 3. The event benefits both the participants and the software houses which, thanks to the efforts of hackers, are subsequently able to solve bugs and any more serious issues, without hav...

Russia is now feeling the pressure of the economic sanctions imposed on the nation as a result of the war in Ukraine, and has decided to counter the situation by using the figure of Peppa Pig, the famous British cartoon. A Russian court has, in fact, declared that the animation under consideration can be freely copied...

According to Globaldata, a global data analytics and consulting firm, it predicted that China will become a highly technologically advanced country to turn into a hub for any Metaverse-related interest. With the introduction of 6G and the use of Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality, China wil...