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Hackers are watching your baby monitor right now and you wouldn’t even know it until it’s too late
Default passwords and outdated firmware are turning your home camera into a public livestream, report warns Thousands of exposed webcams are offering a front-row seat into private and corporate life A simple web browser is all it takes to peek into 40,000 unsecured camera feeds Thousands of internet-connected webcams, intended to enhance safety and convenience,…

AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia
Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boom Chris Dorney / Alamy Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from millions of humans worldwide – and it faces a growing threat from artificial intelligence developers. The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, says since January 2024 it has seen…

Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works
Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter Reporting fromLongyearbyen, Norway Getty Images Norway’s Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost town High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it’s home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. One of those is…

Gigabyte mixes messages with new AI PC that’s also called a gaming desktop
Gigabyte’s AI TOP 500 TRX50 is a desktop built for AI developers working on massive LLMs Older Threadripper CPU included but motherboard supports newer upgrades GeForce RTX 5090 GPU paired with software for model tuning Gigabyte has quietly launched the AI TOP 500 TRX50, a high-end system aimed at developers working on AI models and…

OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature, and I find it makes working way more efficient
OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature to remember past chats, tone preferences, and files Projects now offers deep research, voice mode, mobile file uploads, and more OpenAI wants Projects to function more like smart workspaces than one-off chats ChatGPT’s Projects feature has been a useful way to organize conversations with the AI chatbot since it…


Would you buy your child a ChatGPT‑powered Barbie? I’m queasy at the prospect of a real‑life Small Soldiers scenario
Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to build AI‑powered toys, which might lead to some amazing fun, but also sounds like the premise for a million stories of things going wrong. To be clear, I don’t think AI is going to end the world. I’ve used ChatGPT in a million ways, including as an aide for…

ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from Apple’s beautiful Liquid Glass to the Xbox’s surprise handheld launch
It’s been a massive week for tech news, with Apple‘s WWDC taking place and a raft of big announcements in the gaming world. Missed it all? Never fear – because you can catch up on it by scrolling down for our handy recaps of the week’s seven biggest tech news stories. And once you’re all…
