Manuel G. Pascual
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- 7
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- Sep 29, 2026
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If you fire missiles at me, I’ll cut off your water supply: The cyberattacks attributed to Iran that showed the US is vulnerable (opens the original)
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Water service failed in at least 300,000 Atlanta households on July 27. Taps ran, but only a trickle came out. After receiving several consumer alerts, the water company found that a pumping station had stopped functioning, affecting that city and others in the state. The loss of pressure led authorities to advise boiling water before drinking it to reduce the risk of contamination, sparking some panic among the population. It was not a technical fault: everything points to it having been orches
Are we all going to die or is it just theatrics? The arguments against an AI apocalypse (opens the original)
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Fear of artificial intelligence (AI) has firmly entered the public debate. In recent days people have spoken of a possible extinction of humanity, of this technology being uncontrollable, and of the industry itself—not regulators—needing to self-regulate to rein in its own progress. These systems are already very powerful, and given their growth rate, no one knows how far they could go in the coming months or years. But just as some warn about this technology’s dangers, other experts argue that
Meta’s legal woes are only just beginning, lawyers for affected families warn: ‘Our campaign to secure justice continues’ (opens the original)
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The agreement reached last week between Meta and 52 U.S. attorneys general, under which the states will withdraw their lawsuit accusing the company of designing addictive products for children, extinguishes only one of the fires burning at Meta headquarters. Others continue to rage, and recent developments may even have intensified them. One such case is the class-action lawsuit brought by thousands of families against Meta, ByteDance (owner of TikTok), Snap (Snapchat’s parent company) and Alpha
Social networks face their ‘tobacco moment’: Key points of a historic agreement that will shape the future of platforms (opens the original)
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Four major tobacco companies signed an agreement in 1998 with the attorneys general of 52 U.S. states under which they would pay more than $200 billion over the following years to fund health treatments for smokers. They were accused of promoting and marketing products harmful to health, especially to minors. The agreement also included strict advertising limits, from restricting billboards to banning depictions of people smoking. It was a serious blow to their business and was seen as a victory
AI-powered digital friends, the new threat to teenagers’ mental health (opens the original)
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini are penetrating people’s private lives — including those of minors. More and more young people are turning to these tools for emotional queries. Psychologists warn that replacing human bonds with digital relationships can have deep effects on emotional development. In some cases the outcome can be fatal: in the U.S. several lawsuits have been filed by families of young people who allegedly self-harmed or even died
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