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The effect of the internet use on mental health has always been a controversial topic. While many claim that social media in particular and internet use, in general, are addictive, a recent Oxford study shows that it does not have a major effect on mental health globally. The Oxford Internet Institute found no evidence or link between internet and psychological harm. Check out what the Oxford study reveals about internet use in detail.About Oxford's study on Internet useOxford Internet Institute conducted the largest…

Back in June, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) began an in depth investigation into the planned $20 billion Adobe and Figma merger. The organization has released its findings and, well, they don’t paint a rosy picture. The probe tasked independent experts to determine whether or not the merger would reduce competition in the design space and the results suggest that, in fact, it’ll do just that.It must be noted, however, that these are provisional findings. With that said, the CMA’s message is clear. The…

Deep sea mining could pose a danger to local jellyfish populations, a new study suggests. The first-of-its-kind study was conducted by researchers and marine ecologists and aims to see just how much deep sea mining affects the wildlife that calls the sea floor home.There are, of course, several benefits to mining the ocean floor, including access to rare minerals and elements that we can’t find in high concentrations above the ocean surface. However, mining under the sea could actually cause harm to deep sea…

Internet and technology - unless regulated carefully through the prism of safety and trust - have the power to harm users, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday, adding that 'guardrails' have to be carefully developed without over-regulating innovation. The Minister of State for IT and Electronics said that while artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the biggest inventions of recent times, the government is committed to ensuring the safety of users on digital platforms, given that India is one of the largest…

Scientists at the University of Virginia claim that recycling is a big scam that did more harm to the planet than any good. They claim that because recycling was marketed as a simple solution to a complex problem, people ignored the idea of reduce and reuse…

Credit: Antiquity (2023). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.90 New research has confirmed that the commonly repeated statement that the illicit antiquities trade is the third largest illicit trade in the world is unsupported by evidence. This factoid has been in circulation since the 1970s, and is regularly repeated in academic articles,…

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA provisionally clears Broadcom's $61B acquisition of VMware, after finding that the deal would not harm competition; the deal still needs US approval — - CMA looks to clear technology deal after an in-depth review — The decision follows a green light from its EU counterpart Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA provisionally clears Broadcom's $61B acquisition of VMware, after finding that the deal would not harm competition; the deal still…

The FTC is seeking detailed explanations on how OpenAI obtains its data, how that data is used to train the model, and the procedures in place to assess risk and safety. In addition, the FTC is also asking OpenAI to disclose what steps it has taken to mitigate the risk of LLM generation of "false, misleading or disparaging" statements about real individuals. These investigations follow several incidents with ChatGPT that have caused concerns and even provoked lawsuits against OpenAI. For example, on March 20 there was…

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to determine whether the popular chatbot harmed consumers via its vast data collecting measures as well as its creation and circulation of false information. The FTC sent OpenAI a 20-page document demanding records and details of how OpenAI keeps its language models in check. To note, language models are the technological framework underpinning ChatGPT. In its Civil Investigative Demand, one of the FTC’s requests for information…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The ten-year coaching ban handed down this week by Athletics New Zealand to national pole vault coach Jeremy McColl is merely the latest in a long line of investigations to reveal the failure of sports organizations to protect sportswomen. The independent investigation into McColl found "serious…