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Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners, yells racist slurs (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] nl4real@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What did you expect from "The Internet of Things"?

Also, now I'm just imagining the vacuums gaining sentience and actually becoming racist.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago*

But racist against like really specific ethnicities and peoples. Like it goes off on a rant about the Jutes and Paraguayans for seemingly no reason.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago*

Fortunately they don't know how to open doors, so they're not organizing together in public (yet)

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