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Innovation inevitably brings risks of a rather substantial nature. Progress has always stepped on some toes, and it will do so again in the future, but it is critical to emphasize the difference between choices made for the greater good and decisions made to satisfy the desires of the wealthiest. Where the demolition o...

An analysis recently conducted by research teams from Stanford, Cornell and WVU, three world-renowned U.S. universities, highlighted a number of somewhat token questions regarding the relationship between artificial intelligence models and copyright. In recent times, the unauthorized use of copyrighted books and novels...

At a time when information is no longer trustworthy, how can humans stay updated on what is happening in the world? The era of fake news has started for years now, several steps have been taken to succeed in dealing with this continuous spread of misinformation, however, it seems to have recently gained a successor tha...

Who would have thought that the almost “people-pleaser” nature instilled within the most popular chatbots in the tech world would lead them to dig their own grave? The current situation of these services is characterized by a clear need to appear useful, necessary, as serviceable as possible, always trying to offer...

“Be curious about artificial intelligence!” Reads a memo recently shared by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to the company's employees. Accompanying this suggestion, the man also points out that as a result of the implementation of this technology, the company's workforce will undergo a significant reduction in the years to ...

During January 2025, following the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to remove the fact-checking system (checking the veracity of shared information), from company-owned platforms. Following this change, accompanied by other changes to Meta's policy, a campaign was called to s...

During the first few days of June, the Wikimedia Foundation decided to completely turn around the spirit of one of the most valuable information platforms in the vast world of the Internet, Wikipedia itself. Known since time immemorial, and hopefully forever, as an unrelenting source of knowledge shared and edited by ...

The "Model collapse” is a phenomenon in which models used in machine learning, such as the Large Language Models so much in vogue nowadays, gradually degrade due to errors resulting from training based on unsuitable content, such as the results of another model, or previous versions of the same subject. Considering t...

In early 2025, Meta launched Meta AI, its artificial intelligence platform that can be accessed through any account of the company's services: Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp. Within this service, there is a section called “Discover AI,” designed to share what users ask artificial intelligence, so as to inspire ot...

Over the past year, the world's most popular browser has decided to introduce a feature powered by artificial intelligence. When you perform a search on Google, you now get results from a feature called “AI Overview,” a kind of dialogue box that appears as the first response to any question entered in the search ba...

Online piracy is one of the easiest activities for any user of the vast world of the internet to engage in, as it does not require following complex processes or apparently jeopardizing one's electronic devices to obtain satisfactory results. Nevertheless, the practice in question remains a violation of the law, especi...

Today's featured article comes from a different source than usual: ZERO PARTY DATA, a newsletter dedicated to gathering news from the world of data protection, edited by Jorge García Herrero and Darío López Rincón. The text we are presenting here is a simplified, yet accurate, explanation of “localhost tracking,�...

In the summer of 2023, the U.S.-based company 23andMe was the victim of a major hacking attack; dealing with genomics and biotechnology, the company in question has, over the years, become an unrelenting source of sensitive data of billions of users, including medical and family information such as hereditary health co...

Artificial intelligence has rapidly reached impressive levels of diffusion, going on to infiltrate within social media, daily and professional lives of most people. In recent times, the role of AI chatbots in the well-being of users has been investigated several times, especially in cases related to the psychological h...

According to a complaint made in early June by Reddit, one of the world's most famous entertainment forum platforms, artificial intelligence startup Anthropic allegedly trained its AI models using the personal data of the site's users without any kind of authorization or consent. This move allegedly hurt the platform e...

Within the U.S. territory, the management of machine repairs of any kind is not in the hands of the consumer, it resides solely in the responsibilities of the manufacturing companies that own the product of the case. In the world of the Internet, for example, there has been a general cultural awareness regarding McDona...