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Rise of AI Degrees: Students Shift from Computer Science to AI

Redazione RHC 18/12/2025

A marked shift in college student preferences is taking place in the United States. More and more young people are choosing degrees in artificial intelligence, abandoning traditional computer science, which is considered less career-secure than in the past. The phenomenon is evident at major universities. At MIT, the three-year program in “Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making,” launched in 2022, has become the university’s second-most popular program in just three years, after Computer Science. By 2025, enrollment is expected to reach approximately 330 students. Other universities are following suit. The University of South Florida launched an Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Institute with over

Microsoft CEO on AI Challenges

Redazione RHC 07/12/2025

In a conversation with Matthias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged that the Redmond-based company’s impressive growth is currently a limiting factor in the competition in artificial intelligence. The very large organizational structure, he explained, slows down the decision-making process and makes it more difficult to respond to rapid changes in the industry. Nadella compared the operations of large companies with those of startups, emphasizing how the latter operate with small teams, capable of moving from idea to development without lengthy hierarchical steps. According to the CEO, this agility allows small tech companies to innovate with a speed

Gulf States’ Digital Transformation: A New Era of Innovation and Security

Matteo Giada 05/12/2025

It is a time of great geopolitical changes in the Gulf. It has been evident for some time that the dynamics between the major Middle Eastern players are indeed undergoing profound changes. Factors to consider in this evolving equation naturally include relations with Israel and the Palestinian cause, but they’re not limited to them. The rush to digitalization and AI, the development of new technological ecosystems, combined with the security concerns of the Gulf monarchies, are creating a certain divergence between the models and strategic objectives of state actors in the Arab region. Among them, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and

Neurodivergence in Cybersecurity: A Hidden Competitive Advantage

Fabrizio Saviano 05/12/2025

Personal growth manuals sell hyperfocus as the secret to success. Routines as the key to productivity. Stepping out of your comfort zone as a universal panacea. But Jeff Bezos ( ADHD ), Elon Musk ( Asperger’s ) and Richard Branson ( dyslexic ) didn’t discover hyperfocus by reading a self-help book: they were born with it. Thomas Edison was obsessive and unable to concentrate on a single task for long, yet he invented the light bulb. Leonardo da Vinci left works unfinished because his mind was racing in too many directions. Einstein learned to read, write, and speak late. Today, they would

The Power of A* Algorithm in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Redazione RHC 30/11/2025

Nearly everything artificial intelligence does today is based on a simple but fundamental idea: any problem can be reduced to finding a path from a starting point to a goal. The computer considers several states, evaluates which are closest to the result, and proceeds in sequence until it finds a solution. The most obvious comparison is navigation. When a person plots a route on the London Underground, say from Bond Street to King’s Cross, they mentally consider the options: the Central Line to Oxford Circus, a transfer to the Victoria Line, Warren Street, Euston, and finally the final destination. A computer does

China surpasses US in open-source AI models

Redazione RHC 28/11/2025

China surpasses the United States in the global market for open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models. According to a November 26 Financial Times report, a study by MIT and open-source AI startup Hugging Face found that the share of downloads of open-source AI models developed by Chinese teams rose to 17% over the past year, surpassing their American counterparts for the first time and gaining a key lead in the global application of AI technology. Amid the AI boom sweeping the global tech industry, US tech giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic tend to adopt a ” closed ” strategy, maintaining complete

Ettore Accenti: The Italian Tech Pioneer Who Brought Intel to Italy

Carlo Denza 25/11/2025

With exclusive photographs and unpublished documents: the extraordinary story of the Italian engineer who collaborated with Gordon Moore and Alan Sugar, bringing Intel to Italy and building the first tech empire with Amstrad. 1987. Milan. An entrepreneur receives a phone call from London: create an Italian branch from scratch in three months. With August in between, there were only two months left. Impossible. December 1987: 20 billion lire in turnover. 1989: 120 billion. 2,000 stores built from scratch. From 15 to 60 employees. This is the story of Ettore Accenti , Intel’s first representative in Europe, the man who brought personal computers

Alibaba Qwen3Max Dominates AI Market with Rapid Growth

Redazione RHC 24/11/2025

On November 24, Alibaba announced Qwen3Max, which had been in public beta for a week , and had already surpassed 10 million downloads. It was a record that shattered all others. In a very short time, it had overshadowed ChatGPT, Sora , and even DeepSeek , becoming the fastest-growing AI application ever seen. It was Alibaba’s second China move in 2025 , after DeepSeek had already shaken up the industry earlier this year. The Chinese giant’s shares rose 4.13% in Hong Kong. No overly pompous official announcements, no flashy livestream events: just numbers that spoke for themselves. And the markets, as usual,

Famous Hackers: The Story of Gary McKinnon.

Redazione RHC 01/07/2025

A few months after the attacks on the World Trade Center, a strange message appeared on a U.S. Army computer: “Your security system is shit” it read. “I am Alone. But I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.” The Greatest Military Cyber Attack of All Time In fact, Gary McKinnon, single-handedly scanned thousands of U.S. government machines and discovered obvious security flaws in many of them. Solo broke into nearly a hundred PCs within the Army, Navy, Air Force, NASA, and the Department of Defense between February 2001 and March 2002. Solo navigated through them for months, copying files and

Pope warns: “AI is not the devil, but it can become one without ethics”

Redazione RHC 27/06/2025

The head of the Catholic Churchhas expressed concern about the way today’s children and adolescents interact with digital technologies. In his viewthe abundance of information available through neural networks and other intelligent systems can seriously affect the mental and intellectual development of the younger generations. Pope Leo XIV has warned of the risks thatthe rapid development of artificial intelligence could pose to young people. He expressed his position at the Second Annual Rome Conference on AI, part of which is being held in the Vatican. At the same time, the Pontiff noted that artificial intelligence in itself does not pose a threat. It can be

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