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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
‘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