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• Las plataformas de redes sociales son, en gran medida, responsables.
• Algunos hábitos simples pueden ayudar a los usuarios a burlar las estafas publicitarias que no sólo perjudican al consumidor sino a todo el sistema de mercadeo.

Miami, Mayo 18 (DPnet).– Gen Threat Labs es la división global de investigación e inteligencia de ciberseguridad de Gen TM, la empresa matriz de marcas confiables de ciberseguridad como Norton, Avast, LifeLock y Avira. El laboratorio es responsable de monitorear, analizar y predecir el panorama global de las amenazas cibernéticas y en un operativo que les tomó 23 días, Gen Threat Labs sometió 14.5 millones de Meta ads a un estricto escrutinio en la Unión Europea y el Reino Unido. 

Lo que descubrieron fue sorprendente y sumamente peligroso. Alrededor de la tercera parte de esos anuncios comerciales que habían sido vistos cientos de millones de veces por los usuarios, arrastraron a los incautos a situaciones fraudulentas, phishing o directamente a malware. Se reveló así una enorme maquinaria de estafas a escala industrial que ha penetrado profundamente en el ecosistema publicitario actual.

Los mismos sistemas que hacen que los anuncios sean increíblemente efectivos, también están haciendo que las estafas sean increíblemente exitosas. Por ejemplo, el motor publicitario de Meta está diseñado para encontrar a la persona adecuada en el momento preciso y los estafadores simplemente se conectan a él. En consecuencia, gracias a la potente segmentación, las aprobaciones rápidas y la optimización constante, los actores maliciosos pueden probar, ajustar y relanzar campañas con mayor rapidez de lo que se tarda en detenerlos. El resultado: estafas que se mimetizan a la perfección. 

Esto no lo está llevando a cabo un numeroso enjambre de estafadores. En realidad, un grupo sorprendentemente reducido de organizaciones es responsable de una enorme proporción de los daños.

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New technologies always carry a degree of uncertainty. If a centralized regulatory body must first approve a technology’s safety and use, autonomy and creativity become increasingly irrelevant. 

The global discussion on artificial intelligence has ceased to be a technical debate and has become a first-rate political conflict. In 2024, the European Union enforced the EU AI Act, the world’s most comprehensive AI regulatory framework, placing strict compliance requirements on developers and companies before their products reach the market. In the United States, executive orders have directed federal agencies to evaluate AI risks across sectors ranging from healthcare to national security. At the United Nations, calls for an international AI governance body grow louder with each passing summit. As this technology becomes the cognitive infrastructure of contemporary economies, the pressure for centralized control is accelerating at a pace that deserves serious scrutiny.

The expansion of artificial intelligence has not only ushered in a global technological revolution. It has also rapidly triggered a profound institutional transformation that alters the relationship between the State, the market, and civil society. As this technology becomes the cognitive infrastructure of contemporary life, that is, as it becomes the foundation for the development of markets, the tendency grows for its configuration to be defined by centralized power structures: the State.

This movement points to something broader and more structural than conventional regulation. It reflects a technocratic logic of power, a model in which decisions affecting economic and social life are delegated to experts who present themselves as holders of superior knowledge and, therefore, authorized to define what is risk, what is acceptable, and what should be limited. This phenomenon intensifies precisely around AI, because the technology produces effects that escape common social understanding, creating opportunities for technical authorities to claim jurisdiction over nearly the entire sphere of innovation. The result is that the citizen is excluded not by force but by complexity.

Microsoft has announced a major 2026 "reset" for Windows 11,
focusing on improving performance, reliability, and user experience, with changes starting in April.

Mar. 20 (DPnet).– Microsoft is implementing a major Windows 11 reset focused on improving performance, reliability, and user experience following widespread user complaints about system quality and AI integration, resulting in decisions to significantly scale back Copilot, removing it from apps like Notepad, Snipping Tool, and Photos due to user pushback against excessive AI features.

This "reset" will be delivered via regular Windows Update mechanisms, starting in 2026. These enhancements will be released over time rather than all at once, appearing in standard cumulative updates.

In a highly detailed memo, Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s executive vice president of Windows + Devices, pledged a philosophical reset, acknowledging that they’ve listened to those “who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.” He announced these initial changes:

Nov. 19.– Declan Ganley’s vision for Outernet is a self-sustaining data ark in space that promises to host the most vital global digital communications—a backup internet. Declan Ganley is chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks.

Every existing global communication network, including Starlink, currently passes through the internet—a porous “public highway” rife with malicious threats, according to Ganley.

The Outernet, on the other hand, is “completely self-contained”: The signals stay in space, traveling through laser-linked satellite networks directly to users, bypassing traditional ground infrastructure. It’s a “game changer,” the fastest network in existence, with data sovereignty assured, he told The Epoch Times.