{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Internet News - Technology News, Internet, World Wide Web","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/rss-feed\/internet-news\/","language":"en-us","description":"The latest news on the internet, world wide web, web 2.0 and science technology.","item":[{"title":"Misbehaving chatbots could be kept in check with personality tests","description":"Artificial intelligence chatbots need to work on their social judgment, recent events suggest. At one end of the spectrum, they're facing lawsuits for recommending dangerous actions. At the other end, the models can be so nice they're considered sycophantic.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-05-misbehaving-chatbots-personality.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:02 EDT","guid":"news699276901"},{"title":"Filtering out humanity: AI-assisted internet research favors cold logic over ethos and pathos","description":"Is the internet losing its soul? A collaborative study by UC Riverside computer and social scientists suggests so. As artificial intelligence increasingly answers our online questions with quick summaries and polished explanations, we may be gaining efficiency while losing something distinctly human in the process.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-05-filtering-humanity-ai-internet-favors.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 28 May 2026 13:20:07 EDT","guid":"news699192241"},{"title":"Breaking the optical barrier: Terahertz tech could help enable quantum internet security","description":"A new method to distribute cryptographic keys using terahertz waves could help enable secure communication in the quantum-powered internet of the future, researchers say. Engineers from the University of Glasgow are pioneering the development of a new method of quantum key distribution (QKD) using terahertz waves transmitted with a wireless communications system adapted from mobile and WiFi networks.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-05-optical-barrier-terahertz-tech-enable.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Wed, 27 May 2026 10:20:03 EDT","guid":"news699092848"},{"title":"Online age checks create a pointless privacy risk","description":"New cybersecurity research indicates that one of the world's leading age verification providers collects and shares highly sensitive personal data\u2014including facial photos and device fingerprints\u2014with third parties. The research also reveals that most websites that require age verification don't enforce the policy.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-05-online-age-pointless-privacy.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Mon, 25 May 2026 08:20:01 EDT","guid":"news698915882"},{"title":"Should you accept internet cookies? Researchers say the open web could suffer without them","description":"It's a choice you may face multiple times a day\u2014and, at this point, your reaction is probably reflexive. Are you going to accept those internet cookies, reject them, or spend a little time customizing your settings?","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-05-internet-cookies-web.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Mon, 18 May 2026 14:10:01 EDT","guid":"news698331560"},{"title":"Governments may shape what AI chatbots say by shaping the web they learn from","description":"Ask an AI model the same political question in two different languages, and you may get two very different responses. A new study in Nature suggests one reason why: governments can indirectly influence large language models (LLMs) by shaping the online media environment, and thus the text those systems learn from.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-05-ai-chatbots-web.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Wed, 13 May 2026 11:00:05 EDT","guid":"news697797121"},{"title":"How AI bias can creep into online content moderation","description":"A University of Queensland study has shown large language models (LLMs) used in AI content moderation may be prone to subtle biases that undermine their neutrality. A team led by data scientist Professor Gianluca Demartini from UQ's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science used persona prompting to test the tendency of AI chatbots to encode and reproduce political biases, and found significant behavioral shifts.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-04-ai-bias-online-content-moderation.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:40:01 EDT","guid":"news696079502"},{"title":"A new way to deliver faster, greener wireless connections indoors","description":"Modern life depends on fast and reliable wireless connections. Video calls, streaming services, virtual reality, and smart devices all place growing demands on networks that already serve billions of users. Most wireless data today travels through radio-based technologies such as Wi-Fi and cellular systems.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-03-faster-greener-wireless-indoors.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:00:01 EDT","guid":"news694169544"},{"title":"Thousands of websites are accidentally broadcasting sensitive data, study finds","description":"Researchers have discovered a major security leak hiding in plain sight on the internet that could expose the personal data and financial records of millions of people. In a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, Nurullah Demir of Stanford University and colleagues analyzed 10 million websites to see how often API (application programming interfaces) credentials are exposed. These are digital keys or tokens that enable different software programs to communicate and are often used to process bank payments and access cloud storage.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-03-thousands-websites-accidentally-sensitive.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:40:04 EDT","guid":"news693658041"},{"title":"55% of U.S. teens have used AI to create sexualized images, survey finds","description":"In a survey study of U.S. teens, more than half (55.3%) reported that they had created at least one image using nudification tools, which use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to show what an individual may look like without clothing. Chad Steel of George Mason University, Virginia, U.S., presents these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-03-teens-ai-sexualized-images-survey.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:13 EDT","guid":"news693044175"},{"title":"Early-warning model developed to predict toxic social media storms","description":"Researchers at the University at Albany and Rutgers University have developed an early-warning framework that can predict harmful social media interactions before they erupt, paving the way for interventions that can minimize harm and make platforms safer for users. Using publicly available datasets from Reddit and Instagram, two social media platforms with distinct conversation dynamics, researchers trained models to predict from just the first 10 comments whether a thread would escalate into \"concentrated waves of toxic interactions\"\u2014or what they have dubbed a \"negative storm\" or \"neg storm.\"","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-03-early-toxic-social-media-storms.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:20:04 EDT","guid":"news692374021"},{"title":"What makes a hit? On TikTok and Spotify, listeners only partly decide","description":"TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the platform's Top 100. On Spotify, love songs and music from major record labels dominate its top charts. On both platforms, people's preferences only partly explain what songs become hits.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-03-tiktok-spotify.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:40:04 EDT","guid":"news692281682"},{"title":"OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT","description":"OpenAI has begun placing ads in the basic versions of its ChatGPT chatbot, a bet that users will not mind the interruptions as the company seeks revenue as its costs soar.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-02-openai-ads-chatgpt.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:00:04 EST","guid":"news689942487"},{"title":"Making blockchain fast enough for IoT networks","description":"The vision of a fully connected world is rapidly becoming a reality through the Internet of Things (IoT)\u2014a growing network of physical devices that collect and share data over the Internet, including everything from small sensors to autonomous vehicles and industrial equipment.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-01-blockchain-fast-iot-networks.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:05:19 EST","guid":"news688302301"},{"title":"OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT","description":"OpenAI announced Friday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot seeks to increase revenue to cover its soaring costs.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-01-openai-ads-chatgpt.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:21:53 EST","guid":"news687795664"},{"title":"How much for a bot army? Index tracks prices across hundreds of online platforms, from TikTok to Amazon","description":"A new site that tracks the daily fluctuating costs behind building a bot army on over 500 social media and commercial platforms\u2014from TikTok to Amazon and Spotify\u2014in every nation on the planet is launched today by the University of Cambridge.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-12-bot-army-index-tracks-prices.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:00:05 EST","guid":"news684608281"},{"title":"Small digital frictions can slow the spread of misinformation","description":"New research from the University of Copenhagen points to a simple yet effective method for combating misinformation on social media: make it slightly harder to share content.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-11-small-digital-frictions-misinformation.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:17:04 EST","guid":"news682074931"},{"title":"The great search divide: How AI and traditional web searches differ","description":"As anyone who uses the internet will know, the way we find information has fundamentally changed. For the last three decades, search engines have delivered ranked lists of links in response to our queries, and it was our job to search through them to find what we wanted. Now, major search engines use generative AI tools to deliver a single coherent answer, often embedded with a few links. But how does this approach compare with the traditional method? In a comprehensive new study, scientists compared these two approaches to see what we are gaining and losing.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-10-great-ai-traditional-web-differ.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:38:22 EDT","guid":"news680963897"},{"title":"AI produces shallower knowledge than web search, study finds","description":"Learning about a topic by interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT rather than following links provided by web search can produce shallower knowledge. Advice given on the basis of this shallow knowledge tends to be sparser, less original, and less likely to be adopted by others.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-10-ai-shallower-knowledge-web.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:32:02 EDT","guid":"news680866321"},{"title":"Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method","description":"An international research team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has developed a method to detect compromised hosts at an internet scale by probing servers with public SSH keys previously observed in attacker operations.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-09-compromised-servers-uncovered-shell-key.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:37:04 EDT","guid":"news675949021"},{"title":"OpenAI releases ChatGPT-5 as AI race accelerates","description":"OpenAI released a keenly awaited new generation of its hallmark ChatGPT on Thursday, touting \"significant\" advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities as a global race over the technology accelerates.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-08-openai-chatgpt-ai.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:33:32 EDT","guid":"news673799604"},{"title":"Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say","description":"Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals \"unprecedented access\" to accounts consumers use each day.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-06-billions-login-credentials-leaked-online.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Sat, 21 Jun 2025 06:14:55 EDT","guid":"news669705291"},{"title":"A ceiling full of beams: How light is replacing Wi-Fi indoors","description":"Connectivity is no longer a luxury\u2014it is the backbone of how we live, work and move through the world. From smart homes to wearable tech, we rely on strong, seamless wireless networks. But with traditional radio frequency systems like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth reaching their limits in spectrum and precision, it is time for a rethink. What if we could use light to communicate indoors\u2014precisely, silently and efficiently?","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-06-ceiling-full-wi-fi-indoors.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:00:01 EDT","guid":"news668331644"},{"title":"Google's unleashes 'AI Mode' in the next phase of its journey to change search","description":"Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-long makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to websites.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-05-google-full-ai-mode-makeover.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Tue, 20 May 2025 14:01:24 EDT","guid":"news666968458"},{"title":"Scientists enhance smart home security with artificial IoT and WiFi","description":"Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), which combines the advantages of both Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things technologies, has become widely popular in recent years. In contrast to typical IoT setups, wherein devices collect and transfer data for processing at some other location, AIoT devices acquire data locally and in real-time, enabling them to make smart decisions. This technology has found extensive applications in intelligent manufacturing, smart home security, and health care monitoring.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-02-scientists-smart-home-artificial-iot.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:29:32 EST","guid":"news658412964"},{"title":"AI-powered method improves reliability of next-generation networks","description":"As 5G and 6G networks expand, they promise a future of incredibly fast and reliable wireless connections. A key technology behind this is millimeter-wave (mmWave), which uses very high-frequency radio waves to transmit huge amounts of data. To make the most of mmWave, networks use large groups of antennas working together, called massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO).","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-02-ai-powered-method-reliability-generation.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:31:05 EST","guid":"news658081862"},{"title":"How secure is your Wi-Fi network? Research uncovers major vulnerability in wireless networking technology","description":"We often take for granted just how ubiquitous Wi-Fi has become over the past two decades, explains Northeastern University electrical and computer engineering professor Francesco Restuccia, who is also a member of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-01-wi-fi-network-uncovers-major.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:54:15 EST","guid":"news655660445"},{"title":"New tool finds hidden biases in Wikipedia's multilingual content","description":"Cultural and social biases significantly influence Wikipedia's multilingual content, according to a team of researchers that includes a computer scientist from Johns Hopkins University.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-01-tool-hidden-biases-wikipedia-multilingual.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:04:03 EST","guid":"news655650241"},{"title":"Beyond 5G: New optical modulator can operate at 10 times the speed of current devices","description":"Kyushu University researchers have successfully developed an ultra-high-speed optical modulator that can operate at more than 10 times the speed of current devices. This modulator was made thanks to a new method the team developed that allowed them to grow thin films of ferroelectric crystals on silicon substrates.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-01-5g-optical-modulator-current-devices.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:22:03 EST","guid":"news655471321"},{"title":"When asked to build web pages, LLMs found to include manipulative design practices","description":"A team of computer scientists at Technical University of Darmstadt, working with a colleague from the University of Glasgow, and another from Humbold University of Berlin, has found evidence via experiments they ran, that when asked to build a web page, LLMs often include manipulative design practices. The group has posted their research on the arXiv preprint server.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2024-11-web-pages-llms.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:00:01 EST","guid":"news651834463"}]}}