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Gadgets & Gizmos: Apple Homeview: an AI mayor & the hacking of French supermarket fridges
Steve Caplin thinks Apple's new Homeview gadget is too expensive for what it does. He is happy to celebrate Japan's Gboard Day, in which local Google engineers conjure up wacky keyboard ideas. Although the Mayor of Tirana is in prison, he is still running the city, using an AI avatar of himself. Hackers turned hundreds of French internet-connected supermarket fridges up to 50°C. Anthropic has warned that AI worms could infiltrate smart fridges, TVs and create an automomous AI that couldn't be shut down, yet it still bans users who are rude to its AI, Claude. If you want to let somebody hear…
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