Can your mouse spy on you? Research shows a high-sensitivity gaming mouse can pick up your speech with a malicious AI-driven trick

Upset PC gamer with head in hands by his PC.

• A new exploit called 'Mic-E-Mouse' has been revealed
• It picks up acoustic vibrations in a desk via the high-sensitivity sensor in a gaming mouse
• Those vibrations are put through signal processing, and AI is then used to make the results largely audible

Is your mouse spying on you? No, it almost certainly isn't, but the peripheral could feasibly be corrupted to perform surveillance duties on an unsuspecting PC gamer based on the findings of a new research paper.