Business & Tech Some Optical Gaming Mice Can Be Manipulated to Spy on Users Through AI, Researchers Warn Researchers at UC Irvine uncovered a vulnerability that enables some gaming mice with polling rates of 4,000 Hz or higher — many of which are developed in the Bay Area — to be turned into spyware, capturing conversations through desk vibrations using AI.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Than Half of Americans Want Better AI Safeguards, Says Poll SF's first televised Lowrider Parade is happening Saturday; a man slid to his death while descending Mount Shasta; and a Pew Research poll found that 53% of Americans want more government protections surrounding AI in their daily lives.
SF News World's Largest Hotspot of Octopi Found Off Central California Coast in Deep-Sea 'Octopus Garden' The geothermally heated crevices of the deep-sea floor about 80 miles southeast of Monterey are home to nearly 20,000 octopus at once — who mainly use the site as a mating and nesting spot.
SF News Don't Make Big Decisions After 3 p.m., Suggests Twitter Research Cornell-based research using Twitter posts suggests that people are happiest in the morning hours, with users using words like "awesome" and "super" most often from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tweets,
SF News SF Agency Donates $40.6M for Stem Cell Training Grants Delightful news, folks. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (a stem cell research funding agency established thanks to Prop 71 in the 2004 election) put their seal of approval on 15 grants to
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