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Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 61 points 2 months ago

They added wifi with a extra circuit board hidden inside the calculator case. It's connected to the calculators communication port, and pretends to be another calculator. So they can use the calculator's built in "send" function to send variables/text/etc to the hidden card, which then uses it's internet connection to look up answers and send the results back.