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Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘’independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots

Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that “your secrets are safe with me,” but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the toy, and that was just the beginning.

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Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity.

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