Researchers develop way to turn commands into voice-activated AI software

Nicholas Fearn
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New attacks against supposedly intelligent assistants demonstrated by US-Chinese researchers

A team of computer scientists have found a new way to trick voice-activated systems into surreptitiously executing commands embedded in popular songs. In the project, researchers in the US and C...

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