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https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-flaw-lets-attackers-recover-private-keys-from-qualcomm-chips/
knowing the sad state of Android OS updates, this will most likely leave many smartphones and tablets vulnerable for years to come.
This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared.
It is the first known example of a government intentionally using artificial intelligence for racial profiling, experts said.
potentially ushering in a new era of automated racism.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47893082
Amazon, Apple and Google all employ staff who listen to customer voice recordings from their smart speakers and voice assistant apps.
A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.
The results of the study are consistent with our Facebook study: People don’t want surveillance advertising.
https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic/
In a 2018 life-cycle assessment, Denmark’s ministry of environment and food agreed with previous similar studies, finding that classic plastic shopping bags have the least environmental impact.
Several Toyota companies have announced that they might have suffered data breach attempts
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/
in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.
Researchers in Israel created malware to draw attention to serious security weaknesses in medical imaging equipment and networks.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-some-new-users-email-passwords
Just two weeks after admitting it stored hundreds of millions of its users’ own passwords insecurely, Facebook is demanding some users fork over the password for their outside email account
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/31/mote-in-cars-eye.html
Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware, including remote control over the steering, and an adversarial example attack on the autopilot that confuses the car into driving into the oncoming traffic lane.
The researchers used an attack chain that they disclosed to Tesla, and which Tesla now claims has been eliminated with recent patches.
Crashed Tesla vehicles, sold at junk yards and auctions, contain deeply personal and unencrypted data including info from drivers’ paired mobile devices
The machine uses lidar to navigate the rows between the trees, and machine vision to identify which apples are ripe […] It then uses a vacuum to gently “suck” apples off the trees.
https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-macbook-keyboard-problem/
Apple’s third-generation butterfly keyboard was supposed to fix all the previous defects but buyers are still having problems
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/technology/huawei-security-british-report.html
A British review of Huawei found “significant” security problems with the Chinese company’s telecommunications equipment
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/science/frogs-fungus-bd.html
the most deadly pathogen known to science.