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Why Apple Pay deposits feel like the obvious choice in 2026
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (341+ words) Online payments used to be a tedious affair with credit card numbers and endless forms. But these days, mobile wallets have completely changed this ideal." Online payments are smooth and easy, integrated right on your mobile. From everyday purchases to…...
Government planning action against the abusive use of deepfake
1+ week, 3+ day ago (281+ words) The government is preparing recommendations against the abusive use of deepfake, the prime minister has told participants of the Parliament of Youths and the National Youth Council." Deepfake are realistic AI-generated video, audio, or images that convincingly depict people saying…...
OpenAI to start testing ads in ChatGPT
1+ week, 4+ day ago (569+ words) OpenAI announced on Friday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot seeks to increase revenue to cover its soaring costs. The integration of advertising has been a key question…...
Leading education in the age of AI: a matter of strategy
1+ week, 4+ day ago (715+ words) It would take a person 1.5 million years to read the petabyte (1,015 bytes) of data used to train GPT-4, without resting. Yet, for all that knowledge, the machine has neither consciousness nor intent. It is a paradox of our educational landscape:…...
How AI-generated sexual images cause harm, even though we know they are ‘fake"
1+ week, 4+ day ago (130+ words) Many women have experienced severe distress as Grok, the AI chatbot on social media site X, removed clothing from their images to show them in bikinis, in sexual positions or covered in blood and bruises. Grok, like other AI tools,…...
People showing up in Naxxar to collect dogs that never existed
1+ week, 5+ day ago (540+ words) A scam operation posing as a dog breeding and adoption agency is cheating would-be dog owners of their hard-earned cash, a veterinary clinic and grooming salon close to the operation's listed address warn. Last week, a social media post by…...
Appreciation: Prof. Victor Zammit
1+ week, 5+ day ago (280+ words) Victor Zammit, a distinguished scholar, educator and mentor, sadly passed away on the morning of December 28, leaving behind a profound legacy of academic excellence, innovation and humanity. Zammit joined Warwick Medical School in 2004 as professor of metabolic medicine and head…...
Musicians raise plagiarism concerns over Aidan Cassar's hit song
2+ week, 2+ day ago (492+ words) Local musicians have raised concerns that a hit Maltese language song bears an uncanny resemblance to a dance track released by British electronic act Clean Bandit. Local singer/song writer Aidan Cassar has been accused of plagiarising his hit song…...
Grok under fire after complaints it undressed minors in photos
2+ week, 6+ day ago (321+ words) Elon Musk's Grok on Friday said it was scrambling to fix flaws in the artificial intelligence tool after users claimed it turned pictures of children or women into erotic images. "We've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them,…...
Silicon Valley socialism
3+ week, 2+ day ago (531+ words) At the Saudi-US Investment Forum in November, Elon Musk sketched a future in which AI and humanoid robots will do almost all the work. Money, he suggested, will become almost irrelevant. Jobs will be "optional, more like hobbies such as…...