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Back in 2016, Facebook launched a secret operation called 'Project Ghostbusters', aimed at intercepting and deciphering network traffic between users of the Snapchat app and its servers. The ultimate goal was to understand the reasons behind the behaviour of those using the app, so as to be able to compete with Snapcha...

The accessibility to culture and information is a right of any human being, and it should be easier to convey education through the billions of networks and technological supports available today. Nevertheless, two giants of the vast internet world, Meta and Google, have recently been accused of hindering the diffusion...

Every innovation in the technological environment is bound to permanently change global energy consumption. Due to the 'recent' rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (and quantum computing), it is inevitable that energy consumption will experience significant spikes. According to National Grid, a British multi...

The Tiktok saga continues: in recent months, the Chinese platform has been subjected to a series of investigations and accusations, but the situation seems to be getting worse and worse. Officially regarded as a threat to US citizens by the House of Representatives, there has recently been a proposal to ban the applica...

March ended with a "festive week" for those users of X (formerly known as Twitter) subscribed to its Premium version, as the platform's CEO gave them access to Grok, his AI chatbot. Earlier this month, Elon Musk had announced his intention to make Grok open-source and granted access to all Premium+ subscribers, in a m...

During the month of February, one of the pillar companies of the US health insurance industry fell victim to an unprecedented cyber attack. Change Healthcare, the company in case, is fortunately recovering quickly from this breach: the services it offers are up and running again and the liquidity required to maintain t...

Voice cloning seemed, for years, to be a technology available only to those in possession of a certain economic liquidity, to those belonging to a certain elite class, to those in the 'powerful' category. The latest update of OpenAI, on the contrary, has made this innovation available to anyone in possession of a compu...

During the last week of February, the famous Reddit platform publicly announced an agreement it had made with Google, in which it sanctioned the decision to license content on its platform. Reddit is a social network whose entire support is community-driven, which means that the 17 billion posts within it are, presuma...

As mentioned in a reference article published last week, the French government has recently been faced with a rather worrying situation: the beginning of the second week of March marked the incipit of a series of cyber attacks aimed at damaging their internal organisation. The culprits have not yet been identified but...

Artificial intelligence is taking over the world, but not in the way science fiction fans expect, or rather, not yet. Facebook, one of the world's most popular platforms with more than 3 billion users, has recently become a breeding ground for a new kind of advertising. Whole pages generated by artificial intelligence...

What method can be used to understand whether a text has been generated by an artificial intelligence? Unfortunately, there is no foolproof methodology, but identifying the phrase 'as of my last knowledge update' could be a rather significant answer. The phrase mentioned was found within 115 articles published in acad...

The Tiktok platform has recently come under the spotlight, for what seems like the umpteenth time in the last three years. The situation, however, is dire: the US House of Representatives has repeatedly expressed its intention to ban Tiktok from the USA, due to various reasons that have been identified over the months....

Can't use ChatGPT? Don't worry, pop over to Amazon! Recent research by one of the founders of 404 Media revealed the presence of an artificial intelligence chatbot within the interface of Amazon's application. The 'Ask about this product' section, always been known as the area in which to ask questions about various a...

The beginning of last week was marked by unprecedented panic within French government offices. Several government departments, in fact, fell victim to an impressive series of cyber attacks, followed by the activation of a crisis unit aimed at dealing with the situation. In the following days, the Prime Minister's Offi...

The reputation of artificial intelligence seems to be getting worse by the day, each new development that reaches the spotlight increasing the negativity now inherent in this technology. Thanks to the gradual growth of concern about environmental protection, the serious energy impact of this technology has recently bee...

During the month of December 2023, the famous New York Times newspaper filed a complaint for copyright infringement by Microsoft and OpenAI; more precisely, the lawsuit took into accountall content generated by the respective artificial intelligences, curiously similar to texts originally published by the NYT. In orde...