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Outdated software, but not Windows 3.1 - report on airline that resisted Crowdstrike turns out to be 'trolling'

Previously, it was reported that the American airline Southwest Airlines avoided a Crowdstrike outage due to Windows 3.1. According to the source of the report, "it was trolling" — such data does not actually exist. One of the most viral messages abo...

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What happened to Facebook? Meta social networks drowned in fakes, while generated ones denote real photos

Chances are you've recently come across Facebook posts asking for likes to support handsome brothers fighting for Ukraine, or a grandmother who knitted a tank, baked the world's largest "palyanitsia" - and if you are familiar with the art of neural n...

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YouTube is getting its own fact-checking system - users will add notes on misinformation in videos

YouTube team has started a new experiment aimed at combating the spread of fakes and misinformation on the platform. As part of the experiment, YouTube will allow adding notes to publicly available videos. It seems that this feature is very similar t...

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The main "fake spreaders" on Twitter are elderly women. They account for more than 80% of tweets with misinformation

A new study has identified a small group of "super spreaders" of fake news on Twitter - they make up only 0.3% of accounts on the social network, but spread about 80% of misinformation links. Researchers could have expected that these would be young ...

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Spam, junk... and slop? Zoomers have coined a new word for "AI garbage" on the Internet

The literal translation of the word "slop" is garbage, and that's how they suggest calling the invasion of unwanted works of artificial intelligence on the Internet. Slop mainly functions to create the visibility of content, generate advertising rev...

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Viral photo of "Hollywood Mountain" in California turned out to be a fake generated by a neural network

Possibly, you have come across the stunning photo of the "Hollywood Mountain" in California on Facebook or BlueSky, taken from a bird's eye view? It turns out that it is completely generated by artificial intelligence - moreover, such a place does no...

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