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Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni is seeking €100,000 in damages after deepfake pornographic videos of her were shared online.  Meloni is seeking compensation from a 40-year-old and his father over the deepfakes, which were viewed millions of times. The deepfake porn videos were uploaded prior to her appointment as prime minister in 2022.  If successful, the PM has vowed to donate the money to a fund to support women who have been victims of gender-based violence. While officials in this…

Soon after Italian watchdog Garante took on ChatGPT with a temporary shutdown locally last year, it tried to strengthen its team by hiring four artificial intelligence (AI) experts.But Italy's data protection agency could not recruit the people it wanted, with a dozen candidates dropping out over issues including pay, highlighting a growing challenge facing regulators around the world. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate…

No doubt that, if given a choice, folks would prompt for living as a cat in a heartbeat. Being a human is overrated anyway. And very stressful.Instead, you could reincarnate as a feline who’s capable of cuteness beyond belief, is perfect for cuddles and rough-housing, and who, without fault, embodies the definition of a care-free lifestyle.One such purrfect example is Grisù the Kurilian Bobtail from Italy.#1Image credits: allekx#2Image credits: allekx#3Image credits: allekxMeet Grisù, the Kurilian Bobtail from Italy, who…

The Italian film-maker Paolo Taviani, whose gritty biopic Padre Padrone won top prize at the Cannes film festival, has died aged 92, Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, said on Thursday.For more than three decades Taviani and his brother Vittorio formed one of cinema’s greatest directorial duos. “Paolo Taviani, a great maestro of Italian cinema, leaves us,” Gualtieri said on X. The brothers “directed unforgettable, profound, committed films which entered into the collective imagination and the history of cinema”, Gualtieri…

Swisscom said it was in advanced talks to buy Vodafone’s business in Italy for $8.7 billion and merge it with its Fastweb subsidiary, potentially shaking up one of Europe’s largest telecoms markets.. Swisscom said it was in advanced talks to buy Vodafone’s business in Italy for $8.7 billion and merge it with its Fastweb subsidiary, potentially shaking up one of Europe’s largest telecoms markets.. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic…

This adorable little Italian farm robot packs a radioactive punch — the ICARO X4 helps the country’s storied vineyards to combat harmful fungi and mildew by blasting it with UV-C radiation. Developed by Italian equipment manufacturer Maschio Gaspardo, the ICARO X4 farm robot was designed to navigate around Italy’s famous vineyards autonomously while also determining the best time to treat the crops to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria based on humidity and temperature data it gathers with its…

Astronauts from Turkey, Italy and Sweden returned to Earth on Friday, ending a private three-week mission to the International Space Station.The trio were accompanied by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that arranged the chartered flight. The crew returned in a SpaceX capsule that parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida coast.Turkey celebrated Alper Gezeravci’s launch from Cape Canaveral last month. A former fighter pilot and captain for Turkish Airlines, he became the…

IIT and BeDimensional’s researchers used nanoparticles of ruthenium, a noble metal that is similar to platinum in its chemical behavior but far cheaper, to serve as the active phase of the electrolyser’s cathode, leading to an increased efficiency of the overall electrolyzer. Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaA collaborative research effort between IIT and its spin-off BeDimensional has discovered a method utilizing ruthenium particles in conjunction with a solar-powered electrolysis system.What does it take to…

Credit: Magali Guimarães from Pexels Violence spreads in a contagious way like a disease among members of the Italian mafia, a new study shows. Researchers have found committing violent acts with others increases the likelihood that people in these groups will go on to carry out more violent offenses in the future. The analysis of the criminal careers…

OpenAI's ChatGPT has been accused of violating privacy and data protection rules. Italy's Data Protection Authority or DPA has found evidence pointing to breaches of the EU General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR Italy’s…