The convergence of research in the fields of AI, neurotechnology and soft robotics raises the possibility of creating something very similar to Andrew, the protagonist of Bicentennial Man written by Isaac Asimov in 1976, which blurs the differences between human and artificialbeings by Andrea Monti -Initially published in Italian by MIT Technology Review Italia Continue reading “Are biohybrid prostheses another step towards the Bicentennial Man?”
Apple surrenders to the British government. Has the purpose of cloud services been called into question?
Disabling iPhone security features at the request of the UK weakens the reasonable privacy expectation in cloud services and exposes the hypocrisy of the digital ecosystem by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Apple surrenders to the British government. Has the purpose of cloud services been called into question?”
Disabling iPhone security features at the request of the UK weakens the reasonable privacy expectation in cloud services and exposes the hypocrisy of the digital ecosystem by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Apple surrenders to the British government. Has the purpose of cloud services been called into question?”
After Huawei and TikTok, is DeepSeek the new threat to US national security?
The availability of DeepSeek, the Chinese Large Language Model, on the market under an open source intellectual property regime – that is, without proprietary claims in terms of copyright and patents – has shaken up the AI sector and challenged some of the dogmas that have become prevalent in the sector. by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net
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Paragon and Meta: the spectre of surveillance and the phantom of democracy
The growing suspicion in recent days, recently dispelled by the Italian government, that the state secret service had used Paragon spyware to eavesdrop on a journalist and an activist brought to mind Juvenal’s eternal question – who controls the controllers? – but with the need for reformulation: who controls the suppliers of the controllers? by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica-Italian Tech Continue reading “Paragon and Meta: the spectre of surveillance and the phantom of democracy”
Has the Data Protection Authority really ‘blocked’ DeepSeek?
It is quite clear that not much can be expected from the initiative of the national protection authority. Unless one wants to raise the temperature of the confrontation to a higher level. With all the implied consequences by Andrea Monti – initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech Continue reading “Has the Data Protection Authority really ‘blocked’ DeepSeek?”