Tue 17 February 2026: An Albanian actress filed a lawsuit this week seeking to halt the use of her image and voice in the creation of the country’s first artificial intelligence-generated minister, Diella, according to Albanian media. Anila Bisha petitioned Tirana Administrative Court of First Instance to impose an interim measure suspending the use of […]
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Tue 17 February 2026: Using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to seek medical advice can be “dangerous,” according to a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine, media reports said on Tuesday. The research, led by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, found […]
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Mon 16 February 2026: Hollywood groups say the AI video tool uses the likeness of actors and others without permission. China’s ByteDance has pledged to address concerns over its new artificial intelligence video generator, after Hollywood groups claimed Seedance 2.0 “blatantly” violates copyright and uses the likenesses of actors and others without permission. The […]
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Sun 15 February 2026: Washington, DC — In the days following TikTok’s transition to majority American ownership, a relatively new social media platform called UpScrolled has experienced a dramatic surge in popularity, particularly among users disillusioned with the short-video giant’s recent changes. UpScrolled, launched in mid-2025 by Issam Hijazi, a Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian entrepreneur and former Big Tech developer, […]
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Sat 14 February 2026: For as long as humans have buried their dead, they’ve dreamed of keeping them close. The ancient Fayum portraits – those stunningly lifelike images wrapped in Egyptian mummies – captured faces meant to remain present even after life had left the body. Effigies across cultures served the same purpose: to make the absent present, […]
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Fri 13 February 2026: Over 100 organisations and individuals called for a global ban on nudifying artificial intelligence (AI) tools on Tuesday in a joint statement titled ‘Unifying Voices Worldwide: No to Nudify’. “Nudifying tools have no place in any society that seeks to protect its children. Our message is clear: this functionality serves no […]
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Fri 13 February 2026: Russia on Thursday attempted to fully block WhatsApp in “an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app,” Meta-owned social media reported. “Today the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app,” the company said in a post on US […]
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Thu 12 February 2026: Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! Chinese tech firm Alibaba launched a new open-source model that gives robots a “brain,” the South China Morning Post said Wednesday. RynnBrain, an embodied foundation model based on Alibaba’s Qwen3-VL, was designed to perceive, reason and act in physical environments rather than […]
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Wed 11 February 2026: The European Commission unveiled an EU-wide Action Plan Against Cyberbullying on Tuesday, placing a new mobile application at the center of efforts to help children and teens report online abuse and receive support more easily. The plan aims to protect young people’s mental health online by improving reporting mechanisms, coordinating national […]
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Tue 10 February 2026: Social media platforms earned an estimated €32 million ($38 million) last year from scam advertisements targeting consumers in Ireland, according to new research cited by public broadcaster RTE. The study was commissioned by online banking platform Revolut and carried out by Juniper Research. It found that the average loss per scam […]
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