Collaborate Disseminate
The most famous policeman in Nigeria is in hot water over his links to Hushpuppi, has your Amazon Echo been talking to itself, and can an AI girlfriend save your marriage?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winnin… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #265: The Nigerian supercop and Alexa vs. Alexa
Researchers have discovered a novel way of exploiting Amazon Echo smart speakers to perform commands.
They get the Amazon Echo speaker to say the commands to itself.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading “Alexa, hack yourself” – researchers describe new exploit that turns smart speakers against themselves
Much of the world appears to revolve around sports, and sports tracking is a pretty big business. So how do people keep up with their favorite team? Well, [Jackson] and …read more Continue reading An Overly Complicated Method of Tracking Your Favorite Sports Team
If you’ve got a collection of classic game consoles, finding the space to set them all up can be a challenge. But the bigger problem is figuring out how to …read more Continue reading Consoles, Consoles On The Wall, Can Alexa Help Me Play Them All?
Voice controlled home assistants are the wonder of our age, once you’ve made peace with the privacy concerns of sharing the intimacies of your life with a data centre owned …read more Continue reading Alexa, Bring Me A Beer!
Like most of us, [Peter] had a bit of extra time on his hands during quarantine and decided to take a look back at speech recognition technology in the 1970s. …read more Continue reading Speech Recognition on an Arduino Nano?
Since we’ve started inviting them into our homes, many of us have began casting a wary eye at our smart speakers. What exactly are they doing with the constant stream of audio we generate, some of it coming from the …read more
Continue reading “Alexa, Stop Listening to Me or I’ll Cut Your Ears Off”
Like many of us, [Michael] needed a way to let the family know whether pants are required to enter the room — in other words, whenever a videoconference is in progress. Sure he could hang a do not disturb sign, …read more
Continue reading On-Air Sign Helps Keep Your Broadcasts G-Rated
Despite the name, home automation doesn’t have to be limited to only the devices within your home. Bringing your car into the mix can open up some very interesting possibilities, such as automatically getting it warmed up in the morning if the outside air temperature drops below a certain point. …read more
Continue reading Automating Your Car With a Spare Fob and an ESP8266
Voice Assistants, love them, or hate them, are becoming more and more commonplace. One problem for voice assistants is the situation of multiple devices listening in the same place. When a command is given, which device should answer? Researchers at CMU’s Future Interfaces Group [Karan Ahuja], [Andy Kong], [Mayank Goel], …read more
Continue reading Robots Can Finally Answer, Are You Talking To Me?