Researchers have discovered that Amazon Echo smart speakers can be tricked into unlocking doors, making phone calls, and purchasing items via self-issued commands. In short, the devices hack themselves through an attack nicknamed “Alexa vs. Alexa.”
The Daily Mail reported that home assistants could soon report their owners to the police for breaking the law based on a “Moral A.I.” system, if the ideas of academics in Europe are implemented.
An “error” granted a man who uses Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant access to another user’s 1,700 voice recordings, according to a report.
Home assistants are creepy and terrifying. Don’t buy them.
Saint Louis University has turned heads this week in the aftermath of major layoffs by announcing that it had purchased thousand of Amazon Echo devices for students.
Given recent reports of Amazon Echo home assistants recording users without their knowledge, here’s how you can find and delete all comments recorded by the device.
An Amazon echo device reportedly recorded a family’s conversation and sent it to a random person in the device’s contact list without their knowledge.
Patents filed by Google and Amazon hint at further monitoring from devices and home assistants in the future.
Amazon is reportedly in talks to push advertisements through their Echo smart speaker devices.
A news startup called “Ground Control” has partnered with the Creative Artist Agency for a series of podcasts specific to Amazon and Google’s high-tech home assistants. First up is a news briefing curated by Barack Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden.
Amazon has started to promote and sell its Echo speakers at Whole Foods stores around the United States following their purchase of the supermarket.
A 9-year-old has been charged with larceny after the Alexa device he allegedly stole from his neighbor’s house sent his own voice recordings to his neighbor’s phone.
Amazon’s artificial intelligence-powered home assistant Amazon Echo records every voice command you give to it. Here’s how you can listen to and delete everything your device has recorded.
Amazon has refused to hand over recordings made by one of its devices to Arkansas police for a murder investigation.
Amazon set a quarterly earnings record of $1 a share on $35.7 billion in sales last quarter, but traders sent the stock plunging over 7% Friday after the e-commerce company missed Wall Street’s earnings estimates by 36 percent.
