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TikTok shopping scams and how to avoid them
TikTok is one of the popular social media sites that advertises cheap and cheerful products. However, users run the risk of encountering scammers who advertise false goods for a price.
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AI and big data: the energy suckers of the future
The growing amounts of data created each year, combined with the pursuit of AI capabilities, are expected to put a huge strain on the world’s energy resources over the next decade – or at least until quantum computing becomes the norm.
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Tesla bot’s rival Figure partners with BMW
Robotics startup Figure has signed an agreement with BMW to deploy humanoid robots at the automaker’s manufacturing facility in South Carolina.
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Court bars US Apple Watch imports during appeal over ban
Apple Watches capable of reading blood-oxygen levels cannot be imported into the US while Apple challenges a government decision that the devices infringe patents.
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Pirates beware: covert cyber gang hijacking brains of Android TVs
Researchers have discovered over 100,000 Android TVs and set-top boxes infected with unknown malware, which is being spread via pirated movie and TV apps and backdoored firmware. They warn that this may be just the tip of the iceberg.
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Redesigned Apple Watches not subject to import ban, US Customs says
A US law enforcement agency has determined that Apple can use a redesign to bypass an import ban on newer Apple Watch models stemming from its patent infringement dispute with Masimo, the medical-monitoring technology company said in a court filing on Monday.
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Mystery surrounds the LG washing machine hogging 3.6GB of data per day
“WTF! Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?” This was an X user’s reaction after discovering the obscure behavior of his appliance. The post, viewed more than 17 million times, quickly turned into a controversy and a meme. But the explanation might be simple – and rather boring.
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Google and Bing placing nonconsensual explicit deepfake content at top of search results – media
Nonconsensual deepfake pornography is regularly found at the top of search engine results on Google and Microsoft’s Bing, NBC News reports.
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HelloFresh fined for millions of spam texts and emails
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, issued a £140K ($178K) fine to HelloFresh for sending 79 million spam emails and one million texts in only seven months.
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In PSYOPS capitalism, humans constantly bombarded by cognitive injection attacks
The paperclip apocalypse has already been set in motion, but instead of paperclips, AI overlords are replacing the world with listicles and clickbait. Cognitive warfare is now a standard part of marketing, sales, management, politics, and even culture at large as we move from an era of surveillance capitalism into a PSYOPS capitalism, American author and artist Trevor Paglen warns.
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Half of cybersecurity jobs might not be real, wasting time for everyone
With “ghost jobs” on the rise, applicants for cybersecurity – and tech positions in general – are particularly affected by the trend to keep placements open for jobs they have zero chance of ever getting.
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Star Trek cast now in orbit, but moon burial abandoned due to fuel leak
Star Trek’s creator and crew were launched into deep space towards their final resting place this week – successfully piggybacking on NASA’s attempt at its first moon landing in decades – but a second moon burial spaceflight, also carrying dozens of human remains, is now abandoned. The fate of those remains? Cybernews has the details.
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Machine learning bridges “reality gap” in quantum devices
Researchers have discovered a way to overcome one of the key challenges in quantum computing – the so-called “reality gap,” which results in seemingly identical quantum devices behaving differently.
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NASA moon landing and Star Trek space burial in question after positioning snafu
NASA’s first soft lunar landing since the 1972 Apollo 17 – and a deep space burial mission for Star Trek castmates and its creator – are now up in the air after the Astrobotic Peregrine moon lander hits a positioning snafu in space.
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VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year
Volkswagen presented its first vehicles featuring ChatGPT, to be available for customers in North America and Europe mid-year at the 2024 CES electronics trade fair.
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Google crafts helper robot to make you snacks and wipe your table
Google helps robots make decisions faster, and better understand and navigate their environments.
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Computer storage prices to rise enormously in 2024
After a rebound, the price of NAND Flash memory is expected to rise by an additional 50% or even higher in 2024, market analysts say. That would make computer SSD drives more expensive.
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Berlin researchers hacked Tesla autopilot to unlock “Elon mode”
Three IT security researchers from Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) glitched Tesla’s driving assistant into activating a powerful “Elon mode” and were able to access the company’s secrets, Spiegel reported. Allegedly, all Tesla models are vulnerable to this attack.
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Tech to avoid while last-minute holiday shopping
The holidays are a time to over-indulge, buy gifts, and visit loved ones. For those who are security conscious, want...
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Orange cat Taters brings NASA closer to deep space
NASA has transmitted a cat video from 19 million miles away using laser communications. This is a world first and will enable further space exploration.
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