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
Selfies, 4chan, and a war of the sexes: Lessons from the hacking of Tea
Leaks from a dating safety app designed for women’s anonymous reviews of men reveals the internet’s latest threats
The power of the cat
Are the estimated 700 million felines on Earth the sacred animals of our times?
How an AI can blackmail its human supervisor
Anthropic has verified in an experiment that several generative artificial intelligences are capable of threatening a person to prevent them from disconnecting them
The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention
Toxic behaviors, such as ghosting or intermittent flirting to maintain the other person’s interest, damage self-esteem, increase feelings of loneliness, and fuel dating app fatigue
Is artificial intelligence turning off our minds?
Despite its undeniable advantages, using AI programs introduces latent threats such as biases, mental laziness, and cognitive debt
How does your phone know so many private details? How thousands of apps are exploiting mysterious indoor location tracking
Many Android users suspect their devices are listening to them, but research shows personal information is leaking via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
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
Chapter 5: The ‘Trumpian’ approach to news
The White House has launched an intensive disintermediation campaign. The goal is to weaken the traditional press as much as possible and strengthen a new media ecosystem
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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