Cory Doctorow (Toronto, 1971) is one of the most lucid voices for discussing power and technology. Aware of the importance of words –he is a novelist and journalist–, he invented a concept at the end of 2022 to define, avoiding technicalities, the process that platforms were experiencing: emmerdification. A concept that has become popular and gives its name to his latest book, which has been translated into Spanish by Capitán Swing.

Arnau Pericàs (2005), Martí Salvia (2005) and Luana Rocha (2005), are three third-year audiovisual communication students at Pompeu Fabra University who are currently succeeding with their video podcast Guarres!, a program in which they weekly talk about sex frankly, without filters and without fear, in a bold and provocative way..Last year they took the radio class, in which they had to present an audio pilot, and they decided to talk about sex in a theatrical way, with characters from their own fantasy universe. That episode was very different from what we can find on their platforms now, and it received a grade of six out of ten. All three were left with a great desire to apply the professor's corrections, which is why last summer they decided to resume the project voluntarily and extracurricularly. Despite changing the program's structure, they kept the characters of Gina Bashina, Luz Phallus, and Consol Adó.

The FBI has launched an operation to uncover the anonymous founder of Archive Today, a service that allows users to bypass media paywalls. This is a new episode in the ongoing conflict between content owners and the platforms that ensure its preservation, now complicated by the training of artificial intelligence models.

I imagine hell as a kind of hospital for the lonely, where only the word is heard. IAll the patients are condemned to repeat it spasmodically, but each time they do, the distance between them increases.

In How to trap the universe in a spider web (2017), Tomás Saraceno let 7,000 spiders create a forest of cobwebs for months, which could be visited at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. This army, oblivious to the human gaze and its aestheticization, executed in each kick what Louise Bourgeois projected in her MotherThe spider, as a diligent, attentive, calm, precise, and subtle animal, capable of unraveling all apparent contradictions. Spinning a web that hunts prey and protects its young, a tenuous, almost invisible structure of great strength and tenacity, capable of taking root in trees, flying, or acting as a diving bell. However, only to the human mind, which knows through opposition, is it a paradox. In nature, all these attributes coexist seamlessly.

The Generalitat (Catalan Government) has launched a pioneering protocol to improve the management of telecommunications incidents, with the support of companies and municipal entities. This protocol will also allow for coordinated efforts to deploy fiber optics throughout Catalonia, benefiting smaller municipalities. The Minister for the Presidency of the Generalitat, Albert Dalmau, chaired a working meeting this Thursday in Monistrol de Montserrat (Bages), one of the municipalities that has suffered connectivity issues, with the telecommunications companies and local entities that signed the agreement. During this meeting, the commitments made and the measures to be taken were shared.

Watching porn videos from France is harder than ever. The French government's fight to prevent minors from accessing pornographic content has ended with a radical decision by three of the largest online pornographic video platforms: Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube. Since Wednesday, their content has been blocked for users connecting from France. It's their peculiar way of protesting a law that requires them to introduce real age verification to prevent minors from accessing it.

Do you use Google reviews before going to a restaurant? Does Tripadvisor influence your decisions? If so, Yeah, you'll probably be interested to know that there are fake ones out there, and that Google has rolled up its sleeves to hunt them down and eliminate them.

There are more cyberattacks, but they are now less serious. This is the assessment made for 2024 by the Catalan Cybersecurity Agency, the body that protects the computer systems of the Generalitat (Catalan Government). Last year, this entity had to manage a total of 3,372 attacks that had some type of impact on the network. Most were minor, such as credential leaks (phishing) or unauthorized access to email. These technological intrusions that put the security of Catalonia's technological system at risk have increased by 26% compared to 2023, when 2,665 were recorded.

Hands cut onions, tomatoes and carrots quickly and perfectly. In the background, a ray of light enters through the window of a modern kitchen. vintage. ScrollA woman cleans a bathroom in fast motion until it is spotless. ScrollAn adorable cat plays with a ball on a sofa in any house. Scroll...And so on and so forth. Many of us declare ourselves addicted to the videos that platforms like Instagram or TikTok bombard us with without stopping. Day and night, we have the opportunity to get caught up watching videos in which people, often anonymous, appear doing all kinds of household chores that, apparently, have nothing extraordinary. How can watching them cause such addiction?

Burmese youths fighting against the military coup d'état are the latest to join a pan-Asian movement for democracy that has sprung up on the Internet: the Milk Tea Alliance. With the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance they post on Twitter videos of demonstrations in Burma, reports of arrests or disappearances, calls for rallies, sentences against activists and many messages of solidarity. Social networks have become a great tool for the struggle of young people protesting in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and now also in Burma. With this hashtag, which emerged a year ago, they share information, advice and create a community, in a movement that brings together different mobilisations but whose common goal is the defense of freedom and democracy.