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The environmental impact of artificial intelligence is a topic about which surprisingly little is known. There is no doubt that its excessive use is depleting the planet's resources, but when it comes to data, it is quite difficult to obtain accurate results. To address this shortcoming, the French company Mistral, whi...

The Italian government is further tightening its grip on the entire hidden industry of piracy. According to a recent bill proposal, penalties for those who still engage in this illegal activity, downloading audiovisual content protected by copyright, could soon become much more severe. The proposal will be discussed in...

Over the past week, several social media platforms have been flooded with posts about recent changes to the terms of service of WeTransfer, the popular Dutch file-sharing service. Videos created by content creators on TikTok and Instagram quickly went viral, spreading panic over what appeared to be yet another affront ...

On August 25, 2025, any link generated with Google's URL shortening tool will become obsolete. The tool in question was discontinued back in 2019, but the addresses created using it have remained functional until now. At the time, the company justified its decision to discontinue the service due to “changes identifie...

Recruitment for the world's largest terrorist groups now takes place via electronic means, using digital channels that aim to target their victims directly, placing them in disadvantageous and complex situations, and then offering themselves as a way out. The most popular social media platforms in 2025 are also used da...

The British multinational Marks & Spencer has recently been the victim of several hacker attacks, which began in April and were suspended in July following the arrest of four people involved in the breaches by the National Crime Agency (NCA). In the second week of this month, three young men aged between 17 and 19 and ...

The Japanese animation studio A-1 Pictures, a subsidiary of Aniplex and part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, has always been an unrelenting source of content particularly appreciated by nerdy audiences. It reached the pinnacle of fame in 2022 with the release of one of the most eagerly awaited fan productions, the o...

Training today's most popular AI models requires massive amounts of content to be “fed” to the subject under development. Countless images, texts and data are collected daily from the most disparate sources, without any kind of prior authorization, so that they can be provided to AI models as valuable resources, ri...

Crunchyroll, one of the world's most widely used streaming services for animation content, recently came under the spotlight for a rather serious oversight. The platform, which specializes in material from East Asia, including anime and TV series, is part of the Sony Corporation and has its roots in the USA, but it has...

The corruption of artificial intelligence within the music industry began in 2023, with the release of “Heart on My Sleeve,” a particularly compelling duet between Drake and The Weeknd, although, never written, produced or created by the artists mentioned. The song immediately went viral, even before the public cou...

Today's featured article is a short text contained within the Techscape newsletter, compiled by The Guardian. It can be viewed via the link below, and is located first within the three articles presented by the media outlet in question. On June 13, 2025, a little over a month ago, the conflict between Israel and Iran ...

A team of researchers from the Laboratory of Causal Cognition at the University of London recently initiated a rather curious project concerning the relationship between Large Language Models (by the acronym LLMs) and a tendency in human behavior known as the “omission bias.” The latter describes man's frequent pre...

According to a court document filed in late June 2025 and drafted by an FBI special agent, a 37-year-old Ohio man allegedly used artificial intelligence to generate deepfake pornographic content depicting at least 10 people, the subjects of his obsession. James Strahler II, the criminal in question, was then arrested f...

The role that artificial intelligence plays within most people's daily lives is, fortunately, still marginal, controllable. However, not all users of the vast world of the Internet experience a similar relationship with this technology: some are now, in 2025, in a state of true addiction to chatbots. Following the wor...

The UK's competition regulator, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA), recently obtained new decision-making powers and promptly applied them in an in-depth investigation concerning Internet giant Google and its undoubted dominance over search within the vast online world. According to what was discovered through ...

Technology surrounds us. It has made its way into the daily lives of the vast majority of the inhabitants of this planet, intensifying its presence from year to year, decade to decade. Between phones, computers and other similar personal devices, owning countless electronic devices has become the norm, something fundam...