Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots Over 240 browser extensions have secretly transformed nearly one million users’ browsers into web-scraping bots. These extensions, spanning functionalities such…
New EU Regulations Require Transparency, Copyright Protection From Powerful AI Systems The European Union has introduced new regulations aimed at ensuring transparency and copyright protection from powerful AI systems like…
AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs AMD has issued a warning regarding a newly discovered form of side-channel attack named the Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA). This issue…
Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion Microsoft plans to more than double its European data centre capacity by 2027. However, regulations and environmental considerations are…
Summary Soundslice has launched ASCII tablature support after finding that OpenAI’s ChatGPT mistakenly claimed the app could convert such notations into playable music. The founder, Adrian Holovaty, decided to add…
Hugging Face has debuted the Reachy Mini, a compact robot priced at $299, aimed at making AI-driven robotics accessible to a wider audience. This 11-inch humanoid robot seeks to lower…
IKEA Ditches Zigbee For Thread Going All In On Matter Smart Homes IKEA is rebranding its smart home lineup with over 20 new devices that utilise the Matter-over-Thread protocol. This…
Summary The UK has seen a remarkable improvement in its broadband infrastructure over the past five years. Full-fiber coverage has surged from just 12% of properties in January 2020 to…
McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data To Hackers An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: If you want a job at McDonald’s today, there’s a good…
Summary Recent research has unveiled that a staggering 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics are polluting the upper layers of the North Atlantic Ocean. During a study published in Nature, researchers…
