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Could Inflicting Pain Test AI for Sentience?

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites a vast swath of living beings, from hermit crabs to humans. …

Critical Flaws in WGS-804HPT Switches Enable RCE and Network Exploitation

Jan 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananFirmware Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in Planet Technology’s WGS-804HPT industrial switches that could be chained to achieve pre-authentication remote code execution on susceptible devices. “These switches are widely used in building…