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The toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads in the cybersecurity world (grahamcluley.com)

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How lock-in hurts design (pluralistic.net)

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Bosch Rexroth Vulnerabilities May Halt Production, Compromise Safety (www.nozominetworks.com)

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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)

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‘Hardcore science’ or ‘just a sticker’ – do anti-anxiety patches actually work? (www.theguardian.com)

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Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests (www.independent.co.uk)

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Japanese supermarket watches you shop, AI suggests stuff (www.theregister.com)

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From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You (themarkup.org)

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Hello Big Brother! Nearly 1/3 of Gen Zers support the government installing surveillance cameras inside homes to help prevent crime (notthebee.com)

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Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for 'Harmful' Responses After Firing Human Staff (www.vice.com)

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HP breaks its own printers (again) with firmware update (arstechnica.com)

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HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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AI-Generated Woman Successfully Tricks Reddit Users Into Paying for Her Nudes (sea.mashable.com)

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4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech (www.theverge.com)

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The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off (www.nbcnews.com)

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Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook (www.technologyreview.com)

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MSN Fired Its Human Journalists and Replaced Them With AI That Started Publishing Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot (futurism.com)

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EU throws party in €387K metaverse — and hardly anyone turns up (www.politico.eu)

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Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year (arstechnica.com)

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'Odor simulation' included in China's national VR plan (www.theregister.com)

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Adobe now wants you to licence colours (pluralistic.net)

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Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake Firm (collider.com)

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Man wins competition with AI-generated artwork (www.theregister.com)

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22,000 Xcel customers in Colorado locked out of home thermostats for 'energy emergency' during a heat wave (www.thedenverchannel.com)

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Bay Area tech startup Sanas wants call centers to sound whiter (www.sfgate.com)

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