Summary IKEA is revamping its smart home product line with over 20 new devices that utilise the Matter-over-Thread protocol. These devices will seamlessly integrate across various smart home ecosystems, including…
UK Full-Fiber Broadband Coverage Jumps From 12% to 78% in Five Years The UK has significantly improved its broadband infrastructure, with full-fiber coverage skyrocketing from 12% in January 2020 to…
McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data To Hackers An anonymous user reports that McDonald’s AI chatbot, Olivia, which assists in hiring, has been compromised due to serious…
Summary AMD has issued a warning regarding newly identified vulnerabilities in its processors, which are reminiscent of the infamous Meltdown and Spectre bugs. These vulnerabilities, termed Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA),…
America’s Largest Power Grid Is Struggling To Meet Demand From AI America’s largest power grid, PJM Interconnection, is facing significant strain as rapid growth in data centres and AI systems…
Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots Over 240 browser extensions have been implicated in covertly transforming users’ browsers into web-scraping bots, accumulating nearly a million installations.…
Soundslice Adds ASCII Tab Support After ChatGPT Hallucinates Feature After noticing that ChatGPT mistakenly claimed that Soundslice could convert ASCII tablature into playable music, the app’s founder, Adrian Holovaty, decided…
Summary Swiss researchers have successfully trained a pair of open large language models (LLMs) on the Alps supercomputer, one of Europe’s most powerful. The models, designed for public use, will…
Content Summary China’s attempt to enhance accessibility for the deaf community through AI translations of TV broadcasts is facing serious challenges. Professor Zheng Xuan from Beijing Normal University highlights that…
Summary AMD has alerted users about a new form of side-channel attack identified as the Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA) that could expose sensitive information across a range of its CPUs.…
