Chiara Bonifazi
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A friend suggested I try Grok as a therapist, and I came away unsettled. A journey into the loneliness economy, through AI companion apps, manipulative design tactics, and new rules.
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Unieuro’s new Lissone format gathers reception, services and repairs into a central hub, with the departments arranged around it. A way of organizing space that digital knows well.
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A paper in AI & Society describes robotoid humanness. Research on podcasts, conversations and surveys shows how far the language of AI users bends towards machines, and at what cost.
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A Bologna i rivenditori denunciano richieste quotidiane di modifica: fat bike elettriche che toccano i 60 km/h senza casco, targa o polizza. Numeri, norme e la mia posizione da mamma.
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IDC records a 167% jump in smart glasses shipments. The design rules for heads-up displays convince me, my prescription much less so: single-vision lenses and no way to enlarge the text.
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On 8 September Google rewrote its search results in Europe to comply with the DMA. Between new units for aggregators and suppliers and AI Overviews, clicks to websites are thinning out.
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By late 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will carry AI agents, says Gartner. Between benchmarks, court rulings and public retreats, how trust gets designed and why I automate little.
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Sacks in the wind, one round a week and homes turned into storage rooms: kerbside collection in Pescara Portanuova, with the research findings and the alternatives working elsewhere.
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Bern shifts 3,000 federal workstations to openDesk by 2027. A small pilot with large consequences: bargaining power, European precedents and an Italy that keeps putting the decision off.
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Dozing off in front of a series and then lying wide awake under the covers has a physiological explanation, and a design one too: interfaces never plan for the moment we should stop.
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I called the local police over a car blocking my driveway and then lost my sleep. Hence a working question: how widely shared is the common sense that keeps replacing research on projects?
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1Password and Anthropic let Claude sign in to accounts without ever seeing the passwords. The prompt injection figures, the rogue OpenAI agents and the conditions for changing my mind.