Tag: Tech and Transformations
Printing DNA at will: a fascinating and disturbing new technological revolution
The machine sits at the Ministry of the Armed Forces. Rectangular, the size of an oven, and capable of generating genomes, in a few hours, on the corner of a…
ChatGPT: a technology that has already reached its limits?
Large Language Models, abbreviated LLM in English, are not magic. They are deep neural networks trained on large amounts of unlabeled text. They therefore need data on which to train…
Twitter leaves the European code against online disinformation: what consequences?
New twist in the management of Elon Musk’s social network: Twitter has decided to leave the “code of good practice” against online disinformation of the European Union (EU). The news…
Information war: “A European social network is missing”
Along with air, sea, land and space, cyber today figures as one of the spheres of confrontation between major world powers. The French start-up Bloom stands out in this area…
Who is “Volt Typhoon”, the Chinese-sponsored hacker group?
The United States and its Western allies on Wednesday (May 24) accused a group of hackers sponsored by China of having discreetly infiltrated American critical infrastructure. In a joint statement,…
Controlling his legs by thought: the scientific prowess that allows a paraplegic to walk again
For the majority of us, walking seems natural, instinctive. We just have to want it for our legs to carry us. Without us realizing it, our brain sends a command…
Netflix: what we know about the new restrictions in 100 countries
In life, in 2023, there are two types of people: those who pay their Netflix subscription and those who squat the codes of their loved ones. But that’s almost over.…
Gilles Babinet: “We live in a reactionary Internet era”
Gilles Babinet, 56, likes to quote his tech companions. Silicon Valley leaders to the champions of the French ecosystem, passing by the former director of the National Agency for the…
Personal data: a record fine imposed on Meta
This is a record sanction for a European regulator. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which acted on behalf of the EU, has just imposed a $1.2 billion fine on…
Regulation of AI: this other possible path, by Frédéric Filloux
The good news in the anarchic proliferation of new forms of artificial intelligence (AI) is the existence of a consensus on their dangers. This was not the case for social…