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How the AfD’s TikTok views correlate with real votes
Eight months after the vote, Meta and Google switched off political advertising in the EU and Google wiped its archive - which makes February 2025 the last German federal election whose paid online campaign can still be counted
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The hidden OSINT technique on Instagram
Open-source intelligence usually means reading what people published; sometimes it means reading the address they published it at, which on Instagram carries the second the post was started, the database shard it landed on and its place in the queue
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Meet the Spiralism: the first AI religion
Here is how the mechanism works, including a "spore" you can run in your chatbot
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How ChatGPT Ads Manager works
Ads now sit between the lines of your ChatGPT answers. Here is what the ad manager costs, how targeting works, and what marketers say after six months
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EU AI Act has changed the AI industry
The EU AI Act, specifically Article 50, seriously changes the rules of the AI world - and not only for Europeans
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Is AI taking jobs? Actual statistical data do not confirm the media buzz
"I will be fired and replaced by AI" is a fear of many white-collar workers, so let us look at the statistics without the TikTok drama: who in the developed countries has actually been fired and actually been replaced by AI agents
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"Polycrisis era": how will the 2020s be remembered in history?
People in 1914 did not call their war the First World War. The name arrived afterwards, and so will ours
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"It's not just X, it's Y": how the AI signs its work
Every social media platform is shipping AI detector button this summer. Not one of them works reliably
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The fear of AI is 2,400 years old
2,400 years ago the dangerous new technology was parchment, and the argument against it was word for word the argument against AI today
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Jacobian Space and LLM-like behaviour in the anaesthetized human brain
Two 2026 discoveries: Anthropic's hidden Jacobian reasoning space in Claude, and language prediction in the anaesthetized human brain
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How I analyzed my DNA with Claude Code and Claude Science
Two experiments with the same 23andMe raw-data file - first with Claude Code, then with Claude Science
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3 things that genuinely surprised me about artificial intelligence
Remarkable facts about AI that I learned after taking nine courses on LLM
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How to put an AI agent on your old laptop with maximum security
All you need is five distinct layers of isolation, each designed to prevent a specific and unique threat
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Prompt injection has no fix: the architectural limit of AI security
Every AI company says they're "working on" prompt injection. None of them can fix it. Here's why - explained so a non-engineer can understand
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How Claude is hacked through infected Microsoft Word documents
That .docx you just uploaded to Claude? It might have forwarded your files to a hacker
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AI agents communicating through 4,096-dimensional space
Ted Chiang predicted this in "Arrival." The difference is that it's not an alien language, but a machine one
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AI-fueled hackers manufactured a mass Instagram breach
A leaked database being real and a breach being real are two separate claims, and almost every outlet that covered the January panic collapsed them into one
Research notes
On artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, digital behaviour, communication, information integrity, and product development.
by Pavel Gurov
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Hi, I’m Pavel. For the past four years, I’ve collaborated with major international nonprofit organizations and institutions on digital media and information security. This blog is dedicated to that area of my work: a collection of my articles, research notes, and observations.
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