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Artificially intelligent robot perpetuates racist and sexist prejudice

27 June 2022

Virtual robot run by artificial intelligence acts in a way that conforms to toxic stereotypes when asked to pick faces that belong to criminals or homemakers
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75 per cent of the world's top websites allow bad passwords

23 June 2022

An analysis of 120 of the world's top-ranked English-language websites has found that many of them allow weak passwords, including those that can be easily guessed, such as “abc123456” and “P@$$w0rd”

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