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SEATTLE — Pedestrians who pushed the crosswalk buttons at several Seattle intersections Wednesday heard a different voice over the speaker than what they may be used to: an AI-generated imitation of ...
Pedestrians pushing a crosswalk button near the University of Washington got to listen to “Bezos” spout on about not taxing the rich and even reference Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United ...
Audio-enabled traffic control crosswalk buttons across Silicon Valley were hacked over the weekend to include audio snippets imitating the voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Videos taken by ...
The hack is a reminder that everyday infrastructure can be vulnerable to hackers—and that using ‘1234’ as a password is always a bad idea. Imagine pushing the crosswalk button as you wait to cross the ...
A crosswalk button in Redwood City plays a voice professing to be Mark Zuckerberg on April 12. Courtesy Justin Ward. Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula were hacked last week so that when ...