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It only takes a few hours to configure a small, commercially available drone to hunt down a target by itself, a scientist has warned. Luis Wenus, an entrepreneur and engineer, incorporated an artificial intelligence (AI) system into a small drone to chase people around "as a game," he wrote in a post on March 2 on X, formerly known as Twitter. But he soon realized it could easily be configured to contain an explosive payload. Collaborating with Robert Lukoszko, another engineer, he configured the drone to use an object-detection model to find people and fly toward them at full speed, he said. The engineers also built facial recognition into the drone , which works at a range of up to 33 feet (10 meters). This means a weaponized version of the drone could be used to attack a specific person or set of targets. Related: 3 scary breakthroughs AI will make in 2024 "This literally took just a few hours to build, and made me realize how scary it is," Wenus wrote...

Millions of people around the world are continuing to use passwords such as “12345” and “password” despite the increasing risk of data breaches and cyberattacks. Research conducted by an investigative team from Cybernews has found that of more than 15 billion publicly leaked passwords it analysed, only 2 billion were considered unique. The password “123456” was the most commonly used password, with “123456789”, “qwerty”, “password” and “12345” all featuring in the top five. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Almost ten million people used the year 2010 in their password , followed by 1987 and 1991. “The spike in 2010 usage in passwords could indicate parents whose child was born in that specific year or other special occasions,” Cybernews said. It also said a steady increase in the usage of years from 1940 to 1990 could directly relate to when the password creators were born. Alex was found to be the most popular name, with over 7 million people featuring it...