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New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they're being repaired by an independent technician

Last year, Apple outraged independent technicians when they updated the Iphone design to prevent third party repair, adding a “feature” that allowed handsets to detect when their screen…

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How to: beat Chinese social media image-filtering

How to: beat Chinese social media image-filtering

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Google DRM for Email can be disabled by ticking a few boxes in Firefox

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Researchers trick Google's AI into thinking rifles are helicopters, without any knowledge of the algorithm's design

Researchers trick Google's AI into thinking rifles are helicopters, without any knowledge of the algorithm's design

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Google's AI thinks this turtle is a rifle

Google's AI thinks this turtle is a rifle

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Researchers can fool machine-learning vision systems with a single, well-placed pixel

Researchers can fool machine-learning vision systems with a single, well-placed pixel

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