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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...

Craig Peters, CEO of Getty Images, a world-famous U.S. photo agency, recently stated that the company is “spending millions of dollars” in a lawsuit against one of the most influential AI image generators currently on the tech scene. Stability AI, as well as many other models that offer image generation services, ...

As a result of the recent “manga purge” that has taken place in the vast world of the Internet, several fans have been left without services through which to keep up to date with the latest chapters released. The removal of more than 700 titles from popular sites has undoubtedly affected the Japanese comics landsca...

Today's reference article comes from a different source than our usual one, as it is a digression published within The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, run by Gergely Orosz, writer of “The Software Engineer's Guidebook.” Artificial intelligence is making its way within the work sector with excessive ease, and not on...

According to a recent investigation by Ars Technica, the online news outlet responsible for today's referenced article, Broadcom, one of the largest U.S. telecommunications networking companies, has reportedly begun sending termination letters to all owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts. ...

Last month, an artist made a series of rather interesting posts on her Bluesky account, recounting an unpleasant realization she had recently come to. The user, who goes by antire.al, claims, in fact, that some designs she created in 2017 were used without permission within a new video game from the studio Bungie, a fa...

Butler Snow, one of the most celebrated law firms within the United States of America, recently came under the spotlight of the media due to the misuse of artificial intelligence by some team members. The firm's lawyers allegedly used ChatGPT to conduct searches regarding a case they were handling, obtaining chatbot-ge...