Shoshana Zuboff, philosopher: ‘AI is surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand’
The author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ applauds the EU’s initiatives to curb big tech and calls on the bloc not to bow to pressure from Trump
Emily Goligoski, researcher: ‘I have a policy for the use of devices in class. How can I compete against dopamine while teaching some theory?’
The writer and professor has spent years analyzing the evolution of audiences and information consumption. She’s not optimistic about the future
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
The Mexican hackers hunting pedophiles on the internet: ‘It’s becoming much easier to perpetrate this type of violence’
The DLR collective constantly monitors online activity, where it denounces practices such as the dissemination of intimate content without consent or child exploitation
X’s new location feature raises questions about the origin of some MAGA accounts
The platform’s update aims to eliminate bots that spread misinformation and spam
Roblox: The video game where millions of children interact with strangers
The platform has introduced an age-verification system following failures to protect minors, who are exposed to contact with unknown adults. This issue has alarmed parents, pediatricians, and prosecutors
Chapter 11: Sowing distrust to gain power
Trump creates a narrative of persecution, according to which the United States must be saved from ruin and betrayal, and he and his movement are the only ones who can do it
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
Ortega and Murillo intensify internet censorship, the last bastion of freedom of expression in Nicaragua
The co-presidential regime takes another step towards total control of information with a telecommunications law that subjects the network to state espionage and turns the regulatory body into a surveillance arm
What the Amazon cloud outage reveals about the weaknesses of the internet
More than 2,000 businesses were affected by this week’s failure, leading experts to sound the alarm over how our system’s stability relies on a handful of US companies
Algorithms and misogyny: How Latin American teenagers are exposed to toxic content
Monitoring carried out by two Brazilian research websites shows how, subtly, sexist discourses land on TikTok
Katseye, the first global K-pop group born from a reality show and meticulously crafted to succeed
Nothing the six members of this group do is by chance. Their dances go viral, their campaigns keep growing, and each member has a personality linked to a charm that can be bought by their fans, the Eyekons
A generation in crisis: Why young people are so unhappy
This stage of life, which should be full of opportunity, has become a period of uncertainty and struggle. Heightened mental health awareness, social media–driven anxiety, and poorer economic prospects than previous generations make it harder to plan a future. How can we turn things around?
Dan Brown: ‘The human species has never created a technology that it hasn’t weaponized’
The author of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ has just published his new novel. At his home in New Hampshire, he tells EL PAÍS that ‘The Secret of Secrets’ investigates external consciousness, the separation between body and soul. But now it’s not his eternal protagonist, Professor Langdon, who deciphers the enigmas, but Dr. Katherine Solomon, his partner
‘Dead internet theory’ gains ground amid rise of AI-generated content
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed concern about the content created by bots, which facilitate misinformation
Reddit culture, video games, and Discord: What role did the internet play in the radicalization of Charlie Kirk murder suspect?
Utah’s governor accuses social media and other platforms of being behind every assassination attempt in recent years, but experts say it’s a much harder phenomenon to explain
Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’
The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts
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
The quarter-life crisis is the new midlife crisis: Young people’s problems are crushing the unhappiness curve
A study points to a paradigm shift, due to the mental health crisis faced by younger generations. Today, distress decreases with age
Toyoake: The Japanese city that wants to limit cell phone use to two hours a day
The measure, which carries no penalties for noncompliance, is aimed at preventing ‘excessive use of devices that cause physical and mental health problems’
Self-harm or humiliation on live streams: The only limits are set by the viewers
Although not illegal, self-destructive behavior by streamers has sparked debate about online boundaries and why audiences are drawn to it
Global ‘beta’ mode: The massive AI experiment
Humanity is once again a laboratory for big tech, which deploys uncontrolled, unreliable tools that are already part of the daily lives of billions of people around the world
AI devours your information: It knows what you search for, do and upload — and uses that data
Companies hide behind improvement needs to collect personal online activity with which to train their models and sell to ‘service providers’
Erika Staël von Holstein, director of Re-Imagine Europe: ‘Instead of trying to convince extremists, we should listen to them’
The depolarization expert calls for a search for the roots of social unrest: ‘This isn’t about climate or migrants, but about deep resentments’
UK online age verification test cuts visits to porn sites in half
The creation of a system to protect minors is under debate in the EU between those who advocate for this barrier and those who fear for privacy and believe that children will go to more dangerous and hidden corners of the internet
Social media ads passing as posts: How advertising slips into Instagram
A new study reveals that people struggle to spot promotional content, as platforms have learned to disguise commercial messages
ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’
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Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking