Editorial
Inside the 4-Foot reality: San Francisco's $900 “pod life” experiment
Pod life in San Francisco and the hunt for affordable housing.
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Is our love affair with social media fading?
Explore the complex landscape of social media, from digital fatigue to the promise of monk mode and the pluriverse.
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Cyber hygiene explained: the most comprehensive list
Wake up, wash your hands, brush your teeth – we all know the drill. However, there's a new concern nowadays: maintaining cyber hygiene. This is something that most of us didn't learn from our parents or at school. So, what exactly is it?
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#OpChildSafety: cyber vigilantes and the fight for innocence
The fight to protect innocence is an insurmountable power struggle between cyber vigilantes and online predators against children. While the threat is real and is a growing global epidemic, engaging in online sting operations is considered illegal.
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Three different types of artificial intelligence, explained
While the performance of current AI systems may seem impressive, there's a long way to go before we're likely to see true human-like capabilities.
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Streaming data transparency: finally, hard numbers in the new Hollywood
For years now, the streaming industry has thrived on data opacity, carefully crafting the numbers to suit any given agenda. But with at least one strike in Hollywood now over, things might be about to change – to the benefit of writers and actors.
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X CEO's missing X App: a subtle signal or a major oversight?
Ever wonder what your phone's home screen says about you? Let's find out why people are talking about the CEO of X, who doesn't have her own company's app on hers.
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Book review – Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for the biggest crypto fraud of all time, accused of stealing an astonishing $10 billion. Michael Lewis followed the Crypto King for eight months to give us an insight into a strange world where effective altruism went spectacularly wrong.
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The machinations of a cyberwar
Hackers are like nations with static and dynamic allies. We utilize them (and vice versa) in order to gain access to information and resources which we feel will further our respective causes. Truthfully, we are Machiavellian in nature. Not because we want to be but because we have to be. We are this way so that we can overcome the waves of adversaries that stand against us, posing as friends.
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Cybernews podcast #09: who wants to live forever
Even if you could, would you want to live, let’s say, for 200 years?
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The ultimate app to quit smoking… doesn’t exist, of course
I haven’t smoked for nearly two months. That’s over 800 unlit cigarettes and 170 euros saved.
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New experiment in outer space to increase Bitcoin decentralization
Canada-based Bitcoin infrastructure giant Blockstream recently announced new plans to improve its Bitcoin satellite service by starting experiments with a new type of broadcast by the year's end.
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The art of open source intelligence
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the art of mining public information, websites, and social media for secrets and insights through the use of open-source tools and publicly available resources. A hacker's treasure trove.
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Wild West elections warning as AI enters the race
Dirty tricks are already prevalent in election campaigns worldwide. Now imagine artificial intelligence (AI) joining forces with disinformation, lies, and propaganda. Good luck, democracy.
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Podcast #15: are humans still a valuable workforce?
There's no denying that robots will outperform humans in numerous tasks. How do we adjust to this emerging reality?
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Gibson’s Neuromancer: a look back at AI characters from a 1984 sci-fi novel
Can Gibson’s Neuromancer help you wrap your head around an AI era that seems to be coming at us at supersonic speed?
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Google's cookie phase-out: a slow start with broad implications
Navigate the seismic shift in ad tech and digital privacy with our deep dive into Google's third-party cookie phase-out, a development poised to redraw the lines of user data collection, browser competition, and the ethical landscape of the internet.
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Nature top threat to space cybersecurity, Estonia’s space chief warns
Nature, inexperienced operators, and hackers are the top three threats to consider when it comes to cybersecurity in space networks, Estonia’s space policy and technology head Paul Liias says.
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AI under criminal influence: adversarial machine learning explained
Since the public release of ChatGPT, the adoption of artificial (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems has seen a significant boost.
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Hospital hackers revisited: evolution and ethics
My inboxes on social media were flooded with messages as soon as news broke on August 4th about the largest ransomware attack on US hospital infrastructure since last year. So far, it has shut down 16 hospitals and 165 outpatient medical facilities.
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