Étiquette : wtf (Page 1 of 13)

The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them

18 février 2026 / noflux

“Sammy Azdoufal claims he wasn’t trying to hack every robot vacuum in the world. He just wanted to remote control his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, he tells The Verge, because it sounded fun.But when his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI’s servers, it wasn’t just one vacuum cleaner that replied. Roughly 7,000 of them, all around the world, began treating Azdoufal like their boss.He could remotely control them, and look and listen through their live camera feeds, he tells me, saying he tested that out with a friend. He could watch them map out each room of a house, generating a complete 2D floor plan. He could use any robot’s IP address to find its rough location.”

Source : The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them | The Verge

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

14 février 2026 / noflux

“Meta, Facebook’s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions. The feature, internally called “Name Tag,” would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant.Meta’s plans could change. The Silicon Valley company has been conferring since early last year about how to release a feature that carries “safety and privacy risks,” according to an internal document viewed by The New York Times. The document, from May, described plans to first release Name Tag to attendees of a conference for the blind, which the company did not do last year, before making it available to the general public.Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.”

Source : Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses – The New York Times

Vinabot

6 janvier 2026 / noflux

“Photos remind us of the people we love — family far away, moments long gone, voices we can’t hear anymore. Our homes are full of smart devices, but none of that bring warmth, presence, or connection.”

Source : Vinabot

Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government

1 décembre 2025 / noflux

“The Deloitte report contained false citations, pulled from made-up academic papers to draw conclusions for cost-effectiveness analyses, and cited real researchers on papers they hadn’t worked on, the Independent found. It included fictional papers coauthored by researchers who said they had never worked together. “Deloitte Canada firmly stands behind the recommendations put forward in our report,” a Deloitte Canada spokesperson told Fortune in a statement. “We are revising the report to make a small number of citation corrections, which do not impact the report findings. AI was not used to write the report; it was selectively used to support a small number of research citations. […] The Canadian government spent just under $1.6 million on the report””

Source : Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune

Minddex.ai : « Le meilleur logiciel de Generative Engine optimization (GEO) »

1 décembre 2025 / noflux

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Source : Minddex.ai : Le meilleur logiciel de Generative Engine optimization (GEO)

Elon Musk lance Grokipedia, le concurrent raciste et désinformateur de Wikipédia

29 octobre 2025 / noflux

“Dans son style d’apparence factuelle et neutre, Grokipedia développe sur une douzaine de paragraphes (trois sous-parties au total) des thèses donnant crédit au racisme le plus assumé. Citant une poignée d’études d’apparences scientifiques, avec force chiffres qui peuvent jouer ici le rôle d’arguments d’autorité, Grokipedia remet au goût du jour des éléments issus du racisme scientifique du XIXe siècle, dont des éléments de craniométrie (supposée montrer par des mesures du crâne la supériorité des populations blanches ou européennes sur les autres), ou des différences de comportements voire de quotient intellectuel selon l’origine géographique ou la couleur de peau.”

Source : Elon Musk lance Grokipedia, le concurrent raciste et désinformateur de Wikipédia – Next

Deloitte Australia to partially refund $290,000 report filled with suspected AI-generated errors

13 octobre 2025 / noflux

“Deloitte Australia will partially refund the 440,000 Australian dollars ($290,000) paid by the Australian government for a report that was littered with apparent AI-generated errors, including a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment and references to nonexistent academic research papers. The financial services firm’s report to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was originally published on the department’s website in July.
A revised version was published Friday after Chris Rudge, a Sydney University researcher of health and welfare law, said he alerted the media that the report was “full of fabricated references.” Deloitte had reviewed the 237-page report and “confirmed some footnotes and references were incorrect,” the department said in a statement Tuesday. “Deloitte had agreed to repay the final instalment under its contract,” the department said. The amount will be made public after the refund is reimbursed.
Asked to comment on the report’s inaccuracies, Deloitte told The Associated Press in a statement the “matter has been resolved directly with the client.” Deloitte did not respond when asked if the errors were generated by AI. ”

Source : Deloitte Australia to partially refund $290,000 report filled with suspected AI-generated errors | AP News

ADINT : les marchands de pub vendent aussi les données GPS de militaires et d’espions

7 juin 2025 / noflux

“L’été dernier, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR, le service public audiovisuel de la Bavière) et le média indépendant netzpolitik.org, défenseur des libertés numériques, ont ainsi révélé, dans toute une série d’articles, qu’il était possible de géolocaliser des personnes à l’intérieur de bâtiments de l’armée et des services de renseignement allemands.Après un bref appel téléphonique, Sebastian Meineck, de netzpolitik.org, avait en effet réussi à obtenir, de la part d’un courtier de données états-unien, un fichier comportant 3,6 milliards de points de localisations collectés sur une période d’environ huit semaines fin 2023.Le fichier lui avait été fourni gratuitement à titre d’échantillon via Datarade, une place de marché en ligne basée à Berlin de mise en relation avec plus de 500 databrokers internationaux, commercialisant près de 600 catégories de données. Un abonnement comprenant des données de localisation mises à jour toutes les heures pour des personnes résidant dans plus de 150 pays lui aurait coûté 14 000 dollars par mois.”

Source : ADINT : les marchands de pub vendent aussi les données GPS de militaires et d’espions – Next

Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry

7 mars 2025 / noflux

“President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already selected nominees and chairs for key agencies that oversee tech. This time, Trump has the backing of many tech billionaires who attended his inauguration and showed up at his home in Mar-a-Lago. Read on below as we keep track of all the ways Trump is leaving his mark on tech in his first 100 days in office.”

Source : Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry | The Verge

How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon? Living it up on their private islands

18 septembre 2023 / noflux

“I want to stress again that EA is a very serious and intelligent movement promoted by very serious and intelligent people because, to the untrained eye, it can sometimes look like a cult of unhinged narcissists. That Nauru project, for example? That wasn’t the only weird idea the folk at FTX had dreamed up in the name of effective altruism. According to the court filings, the FTX Foundation, the non-profit arm of FTX, had authorised a $300,000 (£230,000) grant to an individual to “write a book about how to figure out what humans’ utility function is (are)”. The foundation also made a $400,000 grant “to an entity that posted animated videos on YouTube related to ‘rationalist and [effective altruism] material’, including videos on ‘grabby aliens’”.
So there you go. Some of the best minds of our generation (or so they’d have you believe) are busying themselves with strategies on grabby aliens and Pacific island bunkers. Is this effective? Is this altruism? I can’t tell you for sure what the future of effective altruism is, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. ”

Source : How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon? Living it up on their private islands | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian