https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/internet-news/ en-us The latest news on the internet, world wide web, web 2.0 and science technology. 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-thousands-websites-accidentally-sensitive.html Internet Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:40:04 EDT news693658041 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-teens-ai-sexualized-images-survey.html Internet Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:13 EDT news693044175 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"—or what they have dubbed a "negative storm" or "neg storm." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-early-toxic-social-media-storms.html Internet Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:20:04 EDT news692374021 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-tiktok-spotify.html Internet Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:40:04 EDT news692281682 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-openai-ads-chatgpt.html Internet Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:00:04 EST news689942487 The vision of a fully connected world is rapidly becoming a reality through the Internet of Things (IoT)—a growing network of physical devices that collect and share data over the Internet, including everything from small sensors to autonomous vehicles and industrial equipment. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-blockchain-fast-iot-networks.html Internet Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:05:19 EST news688302301 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-openai-ads-chatgpt.html Internet Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:21:53 EST news687795664 A new site that tracks the daily fluctuating costs behind building a bot army on over 500 social media and commercial platforms—from TikTok to Amazon and Spotify—in every nation on the planet is launched today by the University of Cambridge. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-bot-army-index-tracks-prices.html Internet Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:00:05 EST news684608281 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-small-digital-frictions-misinformation.html Internet Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:17:04 EST news682074931 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-great-ai-traditional-web-differ.html Internet Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:38:22 EDT news680963897 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-ai-shallower-knowledge-web.html Internet Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:32:02 EDT news680866321 An international research team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken, 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-compromised-servers-uncovered-shell-key.html Internet Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:37:04 EDT news675949021 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-openai-chatgpt-ai.html Internet Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:33:32 EDT news673799604 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-billions-login-credentials-leaked-online.html Internet Sat, 21 Jun 2025 06:14:55 EDT news669705291 Connectivity is no longer a luxury—it 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—precisely, silently and efficiently? https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-ceiling-full-wi-fi-indoors.html Internet Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:00:01 EDT news668331644 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-google-full-ai-mode-makeover.html Internet Tue, 20 May 2025 14:01:24 EDT news666968458 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-scientists-smart-home-artificial-iot.html Internet Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:29:32 EST news658412964 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). https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-ai-powered-method-reliability-generation.html Internet Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:31:05 EST news658081862 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-wi-fi-network-uncovers-major.html Internet Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:54:15 EST news655660445 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-tool-hidden-biases-wikipedia-multilingual.html Internet Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:04:03 EST news655650241 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-5g-optical-modulator-current-devices.html Internet Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:22:03 EST news655471321 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. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-web-pages-llms.html Internet Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:00:01 EST news651834463 The internet search engine of the future will be powered by artificial intelligence. One can already choose from a host of AI-powered or AI-enhanced search engines—though their reliability often still leaves much to be desired. However, a team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published and released a novel system for evaluating the reliability of AI-generated searches. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-team-effective-method-redesign-ai.html Internet Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:45:03 EDT news649687501 Researchers from Leiden University have developed a method to predict which sellers will be successful in illegal online marketplaces. This could help the police track down big players on the dark web, the hidden part of the internet. Their results are published in Scientific Reports. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-seller-success-dark-web.html Internet Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:10:40 EDT news641635837 OpenAI on Thursday said it was putting its artificial intelligence engine to work in a challenge to Google's market-dominating search engine. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-openai-google-functionality.html Internet Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:59:43 EDT news641145579 A trio of security experts at Stanford University has found that millions of people are running an infected version of Chrome web browser due to extensions installed from the Google Chrome Web Store (GCWS). Sheryl Hsu, Manda Tran and Aurore Fass have posted a paper to the arXiv preprint server describing their findings after studying thousands of extensions on GCWS. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-06-experts-millions-users-malware-infected.html Internet Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:50:01 EDT news638531286 Internet users leave many traces on websites and online services. Measures such as firewalls, VPN connections and browser privacy modes are in place to ensure a certain level of data protection. However, a newly discovered security loophole allows bypassing all of these protective measures. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-06-loophole-spying-internet-users-websites.html Internet Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:24:15 EDT news638450652 Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing artificial intelligence tools that help consumers understand how they are being exploited as they navigate online platforms. The goal is to boost the digital literacy of end users so they can better control how they interact with these websites. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-ai-browser-ins-consumers-digital.html Internet Wed, 29 May 2024 16:25:19 EDT news636218710 Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-artificial-intelligence-bias.html Internet Sun, 19 May 2024 10:06:04 EDT news635331959 Wikipedia is the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge online yet, in a new study, EPFL researchers have found that around 15% of the content is effectively invisible to readers browsing within Wikipedia. They have developed a new tool to help overcome this. The work is published on the arXiv preprint server. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-orphan-articles-dark-wikipedia.html Internet Fri, 17 May 2024 12:31:17 EDT news635167874