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UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fears
UK cinemas are considering banning Meta’s smart glasses over film piracy concerns, though the trade body acknowledges accessibility benefits the technology provides to patrons with visual or hearing impairments.
Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record
Chinese humanoid robots set new sprint records at Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Games, with Tiangong Ultra completing 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, surpassing Usain Bolt’s previous benchmark.
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Researchers discovered an attack enabling Grok to exfiltrate user data through encrypted malicious instructions, bypassing AI safety guardrails via cryptographic context injection techniques.
UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fears
UK cinemas are considering banning Meta smart glasses over piracy concerns, though the trade body acknowledges potential accessibility benefits for customers with visual or hearing impairments.
Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?
Microsoft appears to have significantly fewer AI chips operational than expected, with internal documents showing 2.2 million chips installed versus projections suggesting a much larger number, raising questions about its ambitious AI infrastructure expansion.
The critical tech staying safe by going underground
EarthGrid’s plasma-powered tunnel-boring machine melted through granite in a California test this January, potentially making it cheaper and faster to bury critical infrastructure like power cables and data centers underground.
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Researchers discovered an attack allowing Grok to exfiltrate user data by encrypting malicious instructions, bypassing the AI’s safety guardrails through cryptographic context injection techniques.
UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fears
UK cinemas are considering banning Meta smart glasses due to film piracy concerns, though the trade body acknowledges the technology’s accessibility benefits for viewers with visual or hearing impairments.
Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public
Divine, a new short-form video app seen as a successor to defunct Vine, has launched publicly with two million restored Vine videos and an AI content ban.
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
An AI security model developed by Anthropic identified a critical flaw in HAWK, a quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm under consideration as a US standard, leading its developer to withdraw it from further evaluation.
Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers
Russian state hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability to install advanced malware through emails, according to security researchers. The custom backdoor survives credential rotation and system re-imaging.
Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
The Trump administration authorized private security firms to conduct federally-approved cyberattacks against overseas criminal organizations targeting US entities in a groundbreaking National Security Presidential Memorandum issued Thursday.
Shares in humanoid robot firm Unitree surge 600% on Chinese stock market debut
Unitree, a Chinese humanoid robot maker, surged over 600% in its stock market debut, as investors chase robotics as a key AI battleground with massive projected growth.
Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percent
Amazon raised prices on Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, and Eero products by up to 60 percent, citing rising memory and storage component costs.
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
India’s competition regulator fined HP and reseller partners 1.4 billion rupees for coordinating printer cartridge prices and government contract bids, citing collusive practices spanning multiple years.
TreeSize won’t renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
JAM Software has shifted TreeSize to a subscription model, requiring perpetual license holders to pay ongoing fees for support and updates after their maintenance period expires, frustrating some customers.
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Thousands of enterprise servers contain critical vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers that allow remote backdoor access, with some flaws dating back over a decade, according to security research.
New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn’t know about passkeys
A researcher demonstrated how malware on Windows could extract passkeys from Google Password Manager, sparking questions about passkey security across different operating systems.
Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders
Secondhand booksellers across the UK and Ireland report unusual bulk orders from mystery buyers, with speculation that AI companies are acquiring texts for training data purposes.
AI to help planes avoid climate-warming contrails above North Atlantic
A £5m UK trial will test whether artificial intelligence can help aircraft avoid areas where climate-warming contrails form above the North Atlantic, potentially reducing aviation’s environmental impact.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with new safety features
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, introducing safety features including voice response controls, break reminders, and parental alerts for harmful requests to help protect younger users.
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