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Hackers can wirelessly spy on your display by collecting HDMI signal leaks and churning them through an AI, but I wouldn't break out the tin foil just yet

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Researchers from Uruguays University of the Republic have developed a new technique to spy on digital signals being transmitted through HDMI connections by recording and decoding electromagnetic signal leakage.

The researchers trained an AI model on samples of matched original and intercepted signals, before letting it loose on leaked signal data.

They then took the resulting visual data and ran it through text recognition software, comparing the results to the original output.

While some data is inevitably left unreadable, the researchers claim that reconstructed text from the signals maintained around a 70% accuracy rate.