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Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As soon as I read about the shoe cell modem, I thought Eudaemons. It’s rad Ars called that out too!

[–] jeffw 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Largely a myth though, since it was never used beyond practice. People tell stories about it being used in casinos and the tale has become larger than life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I think people conflate it with the MIT blackjack team

[–] rob_t_firefly 3 points 5 months ago

It was used for about $10K US (a little over $48K today) worth of takings before they stopped because one of their wearable computers was burning the wearer.