Smart speaker recordings reviewed by humans - BBC News
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.
Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa - Bloomberg
A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.
The best and worst replacements for the single-use plastic bag — Quartz
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.
Does Google meet its users’ expectations around consumer privacy? This news industry research says no » Nieman Journalism Lab
The results of the study are consistent with our Facebook study: People don’t want surveillance advertising.
Possible Toyota data breach affecting 3.1 million customers – Naked Security
Several Toyota companies have announced that they might have suffered data breach attempts
How China Turned a City Into a Prison - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html
Hospital viruses: Fake cancerous nodes in CT scans, created by malware, trick radiologists - The Washington Post
Researchers in Israel created malware to draw attention to serious security weaknesses in medical imaging equipment and networks.
Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand - Ars Technica
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.
‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords
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
Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane / Boing Boing
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.
Tesla cars keep more data than you think, including this video of a crash that totaled a Model 3
Crashed Tesla vehicles, sold at junk yards and auctions, contain deeply personal and unencrypted data including info from drivers’ paired mobile devices
The Plague Killing Frogs Everywhere Is Far Worse Than Scientists Thought - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/science/frogs-fungus-bd.html
the most deadly pathogen known to science.
Huawei Security ‘Defects’ Are Found by British Authorities - The New York Times
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
Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm
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
A robot apple-picker is now harvesting fruit in New Zealand orchards - MIT Technology Review
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.
Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So - WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/can-ai-be-fair-judge-court-estonia-thinks-so/
EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next? - Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next
Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers - Motherboard
A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data - TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/23/family-tracking-location-leak/
was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks
Almost 150 million users impacted by new SimBad Android adware - ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/almost-150-million-users-impacted-by-new-simbad-android-adware/
SimBad adware found in 210 Android apps available on the official Google Play Store.