If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Mark Twain

World News

 Another OpenAI Researcher Quit—and Said He’s ‘Pretty Terrified’.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quit—and Said He’s ‘Pretty Terrified’.

2025-02-07 Vice
Several researchers formerly employed by OpenAI, one of the leading companies in the AI sector, have recently made the decision to resign and subsequently leave the company - if not the environment itself. In this case it is Steven Adler, a former security researcher who shared his sad opinion on X. ‘I'm honestly qu...
 The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds.

The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds.

2025-02-06 404 Media
Graylark Technologies, a Boston-based company specialising in AI, has recently developed and released a product called ‘GeoSpy’: a powerful artificial intelligence tool capable of discovering the location of photos based on features within the image itself. The tool could prove fundamental for law enforcement agenc...
 Paul McCartney: Don't let AI rip off artists.

Paul McCartney: Don't let AI rip off artists.

2025-02-05 BBC News
‘We are the people, you are the government! You must protect us. That's your job!’ Said Sir Paul McCartney, one of the two surviving members of the Beatles, in a recent interview regarding the current state of the UK Copyright Act. In recent times, the British government has proposed changes to the law in question...
 Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy.

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy.

2025-02-04 404 Media
The beginning of 2025 brought good intentions, plans and a certain sense of hope for the future. However, it also brought a lot of news in the technological sphere - who would have expected that one of the social networking giants would disappear? Although it was a temporary removal, Tiktok was actually banned on US so...
 Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram?

Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram?

2025-02-03 The Guardian
As mentioned in a recent article shared in our newsroom, Meta decided to abandon the use of fact-checkers within its platforms, exactly as X had decided in recent months. The company subsequently decided to implement ‘Community Notes’, anonymous comments explaining the accuracy (or otherwise) of a certain post, as ...
 A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions.

A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions.

2025-01-31 TheVerge
During the first week of January, renowned data broker Gravy Analytics published a notice detailing a serious data breach responsible for stealing precise location data from millions of people. According to the online news outlet TechCrunch, the incident in question involved data from a variety of different application...
 Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads.

Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads.

2025-01-30 TheVerge
The vast world of the Internet has confirmed itself over and over again as an immense source of information, an archive of knowledge accessible to anyone who has the chance. However, this vast collection is still free ground for any user, which means that anyone has the opportunity to write what they like, where they l...
 DeepSeek: The Chinese AI app that has the world talking.

DeepSeek: The Chinese AI app that has the world talking.

2025-01-29 BBC News
On 20 January 2025, the latest version of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence model of Chinese origin, was released in the app store. The app reached the top of the download charts in the Apple Store, causing quite an uproar among investors. The main characteristic of the model in question is the ‘low-cost’ natur...
 Disney Hit With Copyright Lawsuit For Moana 2 In The Middle Of Awards Season.

Disney Hit With Copyright Lawsuit For Moana 2 In The Middle Of Awards Season.

2025-01-28 Screenrant
Not even the US animation giant is immune to copyright infringement, it seems. Although it is news that usually receives little attention, the studio has been accused of this kind of infringement several times. In this case, the subject in question is the latest film released by the company: ‘Moana 2’. According t...
 Tipster Arrested After Feds Find AI Child Exploit Images and Plans to Make VR CSAM.

Tipster Arrested After Feds Find AI Child Exploit Images and Plans to Make VR CSAM.

2025-01-27 404 Media
Anthaney O'Connor, originally from Alaska, went from informant to suspect within a few investigations. The man had originally contacted the authorities to report an airman interested in child pornography, which he also shared with the informant himself. During the investigation,O'Connor consented to a police search of ...
 AI trial to spot heart condition before symptoms.

AI trial to spot heart condition before symptoms.

2025-01-24 BBC News
The use of artificial intelligence within the medical-scientific sphere is a topic we have investigated over and over again in the past, with the technology in question being particularly suited to tasks involving precision analysis, such as checking a patient's data for "red flags" - obviously always accompanied by hu...
 I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies.

I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies.

2025-01-23 404 Media
Very soon, the average audience will watch artificially generated films because they will be ‘too lazy to change the channel’. This is the plan of the Chinese entertainment and electronics sales giantTLC, which is currently embarking on the production, if you can call it that, of artificially generated films to be ...
 An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think.

An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think.

2025-01-22 BBC News
"Synaesthesia" is a sensory and perceptual phenomenon that indicates a kind of contamination of the senses in perception, mixing the realm of the five senses, merging the subject's different sensory experiences. To be more precise, an individual capable of distinguishing this phenomenon might associate a colour with a ...
 AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests.

AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests.

2025-01-21 BBC News
As mentioned several times in past articles, the usefulness of artificial intelligence in the medical field is undeniable; the potential of this tool is boundless, and proper development of its performance could make a huge difference. Indeed, within the medical sector, various tasks are entrusted to this technology on...
 ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show.

ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show.

2025-01-20 The Guardian
OpenAI has recently launched the ChatGPT search tool, a product that has been described as ‘revolutionary’ over and over again since its release in November 2022 - exclusively for its own paying customers, of course. However, according to today's reference article, the recently added search tool does not seem parti...
 APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI.

APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI.

2025-01-17 404 Media
In recent years, a particular Spongebob meme has reached the peak of online fame, laying the foundation for a new method of typing messages, usually with a certain tone of mockery. The meme shows the protagonist of the cartoon of the same name mocking his interlocutor, and is usually accompanied by a script whose text ...