IKEA Ditches Zigbee For Thread Going All In On Matter Smart Homes
IKEA Ditches Zigbee For Thread Going All In On Matter Smart Homes IKEA is setting a new direction for its smart home products by introducing over 20 Matter-over-Thread devices that…
UK Full-Fiber Broadband Coverage Jumps From 12% to 78% in Five Years
UK Full-Fiber Broadband Coverage Jumps From 12% to 78% in Five Years The UK has seen tremendous improvement in broadband infrastructure, skyrocketing full-fiber coverage from 12% in January 2020 to…
McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data To Hackers
McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data To Hackers An AI chatbot named Olivia, used by McDonald’s for hiring, recently had a significant security breach, exposing potentially 64…
AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs
Summary AMD has issued a warning about a new variant of side-channel attack known as the Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA), which could potentially affect a wide range of its processors.…
Microsoft Touts $500 Million in AI Savings While Slashing Jobs
Microsoft Touts $500 Million in AI Savings While Slashing Jobs Microsoft is keen to show employees how much AI is transforming its own workplace, even as the company terminates thousands…
America’s Largest Power Grid Is Struggling To Meet Demand From AI
America’s Largest Power Grid Is Struggling To Meet Demand From AI America’s largest power grid is under increasing pressure as the demand from data centres and AI technology surges beyond…
Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots
Summary Over 240 browser extensions, collectively installed nearly a million times, have been found to covertly transform users’ browsers into web-scraping bots. These extensions range from those managing bookmarks to…
Soundslice Adds ASCII Tab Support After ChatGPT Hallucinates Feature
Summary Soundslice, a platform for teaching music, has added support for ASCII tablature after discovering that users were misled by ChatGPT into believing this feature already existed. Founder Adrian Holovaty…
Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry
Hugging Face has unveiled Reachy Mini, a compact desktop robot priced at $299, aimed at making AI-powered robotics accessible to developers. The 11-inch humanoid features advanced capabilities, including head movement,…
Jack Dorsey Says His ‘Secure’ New Bitchat App Has Not Been Tested For Security
Summary Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, recently launched an open-source chat app called Bitchat. The app aims to offer secure messaging through Bluetooth and end-to-end encryption,…