REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Several crosswalk buttons in cities, including Redwood City and Palo Alto, appear to have been hacked, playing prank audio messages that imitate the voices of tech billionaires ...

Seattle pedestrians were greeted Wednesday by Jeff Bezos – or, rather, an AI-generated version of the billionaire’s voice – in hacked crosswalk audio recordings that usually say things like “Wait!” ...

Redwood City and the California Department of Transportation say they’ve fixed the security flaw that allowed hackers to tamper with crosswalk accessibility buttons earlier this year. A crosswalk ...

SEATTLE — Pedestrians who pushed the crosswalk buttons at several Seattle intersections Wednesday heard a different voice over the speaker than what they may be used to: an AI-generated imitation of ...

On Wednesday, crosswalk beg buttons across the city had a lot to say. Five beg buttons—three in the University District, one close to South Lake Union, and another in Wedgwood—were hacked to sound a ...

Last week, hackers took over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Menlo Park in California, to play seemingly AI-generated clips of Elon Musk’s voice. As the ...