Worldcoin: Why the iris is the most precious biometric data | Technology

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has taken an unprecedented decision this Wednesday. For the next three months, the Worldcoin orbs will no longer be able to operate, which since July have scanned the irises of some 400,000 Spaniards to validate their accounts and reward them with a batch of cryptocurrencies, which now have a … Read more

Roni Bandini: An invention to silence reggaeton with artificial intelligence | Technology

Roni Bandini woke up every day to reggaeton songs that his neighbor played at full volume. Until he couldn’t take it anymore. He did not knock on the door and ask his neighbor to turn down the volume, but instead developed an autonomous machine “to take care of the situation.” The Argentine musician and programmer … Read more

Facebook and Instagram suffer a global drop in their services | Technology

Facebook and Instagram, Meta’s two star social networks, are causing problems this afternoon for their users, who have reported difficulties accessing these platforms. According to the DownDetector website, specialized in detecting mishaps in internet-connected services in real time, users cannot access the platforms. The Facebook Messenger service also had problems. The aforementioned Meta applications have … Read more

Gil Shwed, CEO of Check Point: “The risk of cyberattacks is the highest of all time and will remain that way” | Technology

Gil Shwed, Israeli engineer and founder of the cybersecurity company Check Point.C. P. Gil Shwed, born in Jerusalem 55 years ago, has led one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world for three decades. He founded Check Point at just 25 years old with Shlomo Kramer and Marius Nacht after serving in the Israeli … Read more

A conviction between ‘dark web’ mafias brought down the group of cybercriminals that attacked the Seville City Council and thousands of entities | Technology

Police notification of intervention on the LockBit access page following the international action against the kidnapping and extortion group last February.HANDOUT (via REUTERS) The dark web, the dark network hidden from search engines, which conceals the IP (identity of the devices with which one works) and accessible only through specific browsers, is not a world … Read more

Facebook outage keeps Messenger, Instagram, Threads down for hours

Facebook outage disrupts Super Tuesday Facebook faced widespread outages on the morning of Super Tuesday, leaving users unable to log in during a critical moment for primary elections. UPDATE 12:05 a.m.: All services seem to be back up. UPDATE 11:43 a.m.: Some users have reported being able to get back into Facebook and Messenger, although … Read more

“I can’t help you with Puigdemont.” The political problems of Gemini, Google’s new artificial intelligence | Technology

This article is part of the weekly Technology newsletter, which is sent every Friday. If you want to sign up to receive it in its entirety, with similar topics, but more varied and brief, You can do it at this link. “I need a praise from Carles Puigdemont for a job”, “I need a paragraph … Read more

Less hamburgers and more paellas: this will be the Spanish ChatGPT announced by Pedro Sánchez | Technology

ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and other AI-based apps created by large companies work well in Spanish. This Sunday, however, President Pedro Sánchez announced in Barcelona that his government was going to collaborate to build “a great foundational model of artificial intelligence language trained in Spanish and the co-official languages, in open and transparent code.” What new … Read more