Remember when we thought the scariest thing about our smart devices was them listening to our conversations? Well, researchers just found something way more interesting: a whole bunch of “undocumented ...

Microsoft researchers found companies embedding hidden commands in "summarize with AI" buttons to plant lasting brand preferences in assistants' memory.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Researchers have found undocumented commands ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

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