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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
Memes and nihilistic in-jokes: the online world of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer
2025-10-15 The Guardian
The article we are presenting today is not news in the strict sense of the term, but rather an in-depth digression on the relationship between the online environment (including memes, social media, and “online culture”) and the current state of violence as a political tool.
On September 10, 2025, US political acti...
Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show
2025-10-14 404 Media
Russia is widely recognized as a nation particularly enthusiastic about the art of political propaganda, both positive and negative. Promotional posters, radio programs, and books aimed at influencing public opinion about a foreign country or the internal situation within its own territory are not exactly foreign to Ru...
The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic security
2025-10-13 Medium - Double Pulsar
Today's article comes from Medium, an online publishing platform for written content such as articles and blogs, and was written by Kevin Beaumont for Double Pulsar, a publication run by the writer and specializing in cybersecurity.
As the title suggests, according to recent developments, one of the biggest problems i...
Internet Society: Italy’s “Piracy Shield” Failures Are a Warning Against “Blunt” Piracy Blocking
2025-10-10 Torrent Freak
Although completely blocking piracy sites may seem like the most immediate solution, it may not be the wisest choice for legislators, according to a recent policy brief by the Internet Society, the US-based international organization promoting Internet use and access.
In the PDF mentioned above, the organization share...
ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers.
2025-10-09 404Media
Facial recognition technologies are becoming more effective by the day, reaching worrying levels. Several people involved in activism and protests have begun to cover their faces or apply make-up to make recognition more difficult. The intention is not to hide, but to prevent their presence at one event or another from...
ChatGPT developing age-verification system to identify under-18 users after teen death.
2025-10-08 The Guardian
During the most fragile periods of one's existence, it is normal to feel the need to turn to someone, a figure outside one's own life, someone who listens without judging, someone who is always there, someone who can offer support. There are several real-life figures who fulfil this role, but unfortunately, the current...
Ex-Google X trio wants their AI to be your second brain — and they just raised $6M to make it happen.
2025-10-07 TechCrunch
Life moves too fast, work is never-ending, time marches on relentlessly, leaving us behind. We miss out on chances, energy, opportunities because, at the end of the day, we only have one brain, and we don't have enough mental energy to keep up with everything. So, why not delegate some tasks to a second brain?
Three f...
Roku Wants to Improve Your TV Viewing Experience With a Monsoon of AI-Generated Ads.
2025-10-06 Gizmodo
The advertising that the average viewer is exposed to on a daily basis usually comes from around 200 businesses. This is not an insignificant number, but the adverts broadcast on television or streaming services tend to become repetitive rather quickly, making ad breaks excessively annoying.
According to Roku, a tech ...
AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol.
2025-10-03 ZDNet
The endless training of countless artificial intelligence models obviously requires huge amounts of data and content to feed these virtual monsters. To obtain enough “feed”, therefore, the companies responsible for training are involved in scraping the vast world of the internet, scraping the depths of platforms, w...
Business Insider Pulls 40+ Essays After Getting Conned By AI-Using Scammers.
2025-10-02 Techdirt
In a recent article in the newsroom, we reported how a journalist named Margaux Blanchard was, in fact, a completely fictional character who, obviously, artificially generated her own articles, repeatedly deceiving several newspapers, including Business Insider and Wired.
The former subsequently stated that it had to ...
The Sound of Slop Is Coming.
2025-10-01 Gizmodo
The current state of artificially generated content is worrying, to say the least. Every day, every minute, hundreds of images, videos, texts and songs created by the most famous artificial intelligence services are uploaded to the vast world of the internet, filling every corner of the digital landscape. YouTube, Spot...
HHS Asks All Employees to Start Using ChatGPT.
2025-09-30 404Media
Palantir Technologies seems to enjoy having a hand in various areas of the US government. In yesterday's article, we reported how one of the company's products collects and catalogues data for government interests; today, however, we bring you news of the decision taken by a former employee of the company in question.
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How Palantir Is Mapping Everyone’s Data For The Government
2025-09-29 Techdirt
The idea that the government possesses infinite amounts of data about its citizens is not exactly new. Since the advent of the Internet and digitalisation, it has become predictable that these resources would be used to accumulate as much information as possible about the most relevant sectors: and what sector is more ...
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History.
2025-09-26 404Media
Falling asleep lulled by someone's voice narrating, by a story whispered in the darkness of the room, by a never-ending tale, is a habit that begins in childhood and inevitably turns into an innocent desire in adulthood. Why go to sleep in the deathly silence of an empty house, when you can be lulled by the adventures ...
Tucker Carlson and Sam Altman Get Dark.
2025-09-25 Gizmodo
Tucker Carlson, an American journalist known for his controversial views and frequent tendency to spread misinformation, recently conducted an interview with Sam Altman, the famous executive and co-founder of OpenAI, another rather controversial figure. The meeting touched on several topics, including the relationship ...
Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October
2025-09-24 Bleeping Computer
Updates and simple changes are often downloaded automatically by devices, without necessarily requiring the intervention of the user. Nowadays, it is therefore normal to open a software programme and notice differences, whether small or large, without asking too many questions. However, when it comes to substantial cha...