Frances Haugen: ‘We are worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents’
The whistleblower who exposed social media’s dangers to teenagers says the next major legal battle will be against the AI friends that minors interact with
How social media platforms keep students hooked: Notifications during school hours and paid ‘teen ambassadors’
Internal documents accessed by ‘The New York Times’ reveal Meta, TikTok and YouTube tactics to keep minors glued to their phones during class hours
AI will consume as much water in 2030 as 1.3 billion people
UN scientists warn that the environmental cost of the technology is being underestimated
Catastrophists versus accelerationists: Will AI destroy the world or save it?
Academics Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue in their new book that the technology could lead to our extinction. Is there reason to believe them?
A Franciscan monk, a festival with Karol G, and the Vatican’s investments: How the Pope came to say that ‘AI needs to be be disarmed’
Criticism of big tech in Leo XIV’s first encyclical contrasts with the fact that the Church has no problem buying stocks in the industry
Carissa Véliz, philosopher: ‘AI presents predictions as facts, and that has profound ethical implications’
In her new book ‘Prophecy,’ the scholar explores how probabilistic thinking —the basic tool of artificial intelligence — has become a mechanism for exercising power
Experts call for tighter controls on prediction markets: ‘They pose underappreciated threats to democratic integrity’
A ‘Science’ article warns of the scant regulation governing platforms that allow betting on current events and urges a legal response comparable to the one applied to tobacco companies or social‑media giants
Only 13% of emails are written by people, and more than half end up in the spam folder: ‘This isn’t a technical detail; it’s a structural change’
An analysis of one billion emails reveals that they are a tool completely dominated by automated systems
Detachment 201, the US Army unit led by tech executives
Little is known about what this Executive Innovation Corps has done so far after being established in June, when four execs from Meta, Palantir and OpenAI were appointed Reserve Lt. Cols through a special direct commissioning program
Deepfakes and an elite hacker school: How cybercrime is growing as a source of income for North Korea
Incidents attributed to cybercriminals sponsored by Pyongyang increased by 130% in 2025. Analysts highlight their growing sophistication
Digital addiction in children: ‘I treat children who spend the weekend in their room with their cellphones’
Losing control of time, experiencing withdrawal symptoms, or becoming irritable are red flags that signal screens are causing problems
The Europeans banned from the US for fighting misinformation: ‘Elon Musk has pushed the nuclear button. He doesn’t like us’
The White House considers them ‘radical activists,’ but all they do is push platforms to follow the law, curb disinformation, and stop hate speech. EL PAÍS speaks with them about being targeted by Trump
Telegram, the platform favored by cybercriminals and disinformation
The instant messaging service’s lax content moderation policy has turned it into a hotbed of criminal activity
The metaverse, four years later: Is it finished or just at a standstill?
The 30% cut in Meta’s budget for this technology can be seen either as a death sentence for the project or as a natural phase within a long-term strategy
Jimmy Wales: ‘Grokipedia’s political perspective seems to very closely match Elon Musk’s personal views’
The co-founder of Wikipedia, which is on the brink of turning 25 years old, says that his online encyclopedia is in good shape despite having been labeled ‘woke’ by the far right
How animated films helped develop more lethal military drones
The 3D modeling systems used in the film industry have been key to enabling unmanned aircraft to navigate and aim their weapons with greater precision
Adriana Groh: ‘The internet works thanks to a shared infrastructure that nobody owns, but that we must take care of’
The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence
Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ideological groups
Anatomy of a cyberattack with a hangover: How Japan was left without beer
Russian hackers paralyzed the Asahi Group, the largest manufacturer in the country, for two weeks, putting many of its bars and restaurants at risk
Social media completes its shift to the right: ‘TikTok is consequential’
The US subsidiary of the popular service, controlled by business figures close to Trump, is the final major platform to be drawn into the White House’s orbit
Max Schrems, jurist: ‘The promise of the cloud was that everything would be much cheaper, but it turns out that it functions as a monopoly’
The Austrian activist who won data protection guarantees for Europeans believes the EU must achieve true digital autonomy
‘A new frontier of potential abuse’: Is it legitimate to charge someone flying to a funeral more than a leisure traveler?
Delta Air Lines’ intention to use artificial intelligence to set personalized prices opens the debate on the limits of privacy and freedom of choice in commerce
Data centers are drying up the Port of Marseille: ‘They consume enormous amounts of electricity’
The proliferation of these centers in France’s second-largest city threatens the energy supply for projects aimed at improving the lives of residents
Big Tech enters the war business: How Silicon Valley is becoming militarized
Giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon have gone from avoiding any involvement in the military industry to signing large contracts with the Pentagon and Israel
Is Google’s reign coming to an end? AI threatens the leading search engine
Searches on Apple devices are falling for the first time ever as more and more young people are turning to smart chatbots
AI cannot feel emotions, but it can recognize them in an image
A study concludes that modern systems can learn sophisticated representations of emotion concepts, despite not being trained to do so
Vitaly Kovalev, the Russian hacker who has offices and gives bonuses to his employees
An international police operation identified — but failed to arrest — the developers behind some of the most successful ransomware programs
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