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Mar 2021
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Tech News: Tricking AI With Sticky Notes

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Hackers exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, those temperature-measuring gadgets might not be all that reliable and an image-recognition AI system can be fooled by pencil and paper. That and more in today's news episode!

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