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Breaches, breaches, breaches! Google solves meetings. And a Microsoft service becomes a liability in time Links UMich attackhttps://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/08/30/um/70716806007/ Forever 21 breachhttps://techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/forever-21-data-breach-half-million/ Callaway breachhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/golf-gear-giant-callaway-data-breach-exposes-info-of-11-million/ Google Duet AI vs meetingshttps://metro.co.uk/2023/08/31/googles-ai-will-go-to-your-boring-meetings-for-you-19423340/ Windows Secure Time featurehttps://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-that-resets-system-clocks-based-on-random-data-is-wreaking-havoc/

Western Digital and Hewlett Packard facing lawsuits, Dropbox ends unlimited storage, Microsoft uses the word “python” a lot, and IoT devices continue to be a security nightmare Links NPR listens to ATN (maybe)https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-san-francisco-waymo-cruisehttps://techcrunch.com/2023/08/18/cruise-told-by-regulators-to-immediately-reduce-robotaxi-fleet-50-following-crash/ Western Digital faces lawsuits over crappy SSD productshttps://www.techspot.com/news/99831-western-digital-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-failing.html HP faces lawsuits over shady ink drivershttps://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/judge_denies_hps_request_to/ Cloud “Python” coming to Excelhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-python-in-excel-the-best-of-both-worlds-for-data/ba-p/3905482 Dropbox dumps […]

News Flash: CAPTCHAs are worthless! Plus, Food AI wants to kill us all. Microservices security is more scary and complicated than we imagined. And copyrights are eroding our culture Links Bots can solve CAPTCHAS faster than humanshttps://www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/so_much_for_captcha_then/ NZ supermarket chain Pak ‘n’ Save AI meal planner suggests poison recipeshttps://www.techspot.com/news/99750-supermarket-ai-meal-planner-suggests-chlorine-gas-ant.html Shadow Access Impact Reporthttps://stackidentity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Shadow-Access-Impact-Report.pdf Music labels […]

Tesla jailbreak, a new type of keylogger, and new circuts to make your devices even LESS resistant to water Links Water-soluble circuit boardshttps://www.techspot.com/news/99625-water-soluble-circuit-boards-promise-drastic-reduction-e.htmlTesla jailbrokenhttps://www.tomshardware.com/news/tesla-mcu-amd-asp-flaw-jailbreakAcoustic keyloggerhttps://gizmodo.com/ai-acoustic-cyberattack-deep-learning-hackers-1850714550

Google presents an existential threat to the open web. Plus, gaming news! Links Ubisoft updatehttps://www.techspot.com/news/99529-ubisoft-now-claims-wont-delete-inactive-accounts-purchased.html Web Environment Integrityhttps://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/28https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/ Modern Warfare II matchmaking servers taken down due to wormhttps://www.techspot.com/news/99573-hackers-infecting-modern-warfare-2-players-self-spreading.htmlBlizzard: Any mod to Diablo IV will get a permanent banhttps://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/a-notice-regarding-unauthorized-game-modifying-software-in-diablo-iv/102121Activision trolling cheaters, bans 14k accountshttps://www.techspot.com/news/99594-call-duty-bans-more-than-14000-cheaters-24.htmlPizza-scented controllershttps://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/07/24/pizza-scented-xbox-and-tmnt-mutant-mayhem-controller/

New EU battery regulations, Ubisoft does another bad thing, NFTs aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, and a Native Ad for porn! Links EU requires all phones to have replacable batterieshttps://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-replaceable-batteries-2027-3345155/ Ubisoft deletes accounts, digital libraries, if you haven’t logged in recentlyhttps://www.techspot.com/news/99507-ubisoft-delete-account-game-library-if-inactive-long.html $2.9M Dorsey tweet NFT for sale, $2k OBOhttps://www.techspot.com/news/99510-auction-29-million-jack-dorsey-tweet-nft-has.html Unstable Diffusion releases AI […]

A vehicular episode! Airseas re-invents sailing ships for climate change. Modern cars are expensive to repair. Tesla finally has a truck. San Francisco becomes the battle ground for humans vs robot cars. And Microsoft passes a regulatory hurdle Links Tech startup Airseas re-invents the sailhttps://www.techspot.com/news/99278-french-startup-claims-state-art-sail-cut-shipping.html Rivain R1T fenderbender repair costs half the price of the […]

AI injected into everything; hilarity ensues! Also, patched vulnerabilities in FortiGate firewalls and Mastodon servers. Plus, a rumor that suprises no-one Links OpenAI enables, disables Browse-With-Bing featurehttps://www.techspot.com/news/99297-openai-yanks-bing-integration-chatgpt-after-users-exploit.htmlMDN Web adds AI hallucinations to online docshttps://www.techspot.com/news/99285-mozilla-ai-help-infects-web-documentation-gpt-hallucinations.htmlhttps://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208More than 300k Fortinet firewalls still vulnerable to RCE, a month after patchhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/300-000-plus-fortinet-firewalls-vulnerable-to-critical-fortios-rce-bug/TootRoot and other mastodon vulnerabilitieshttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-tootroot-bug-lets-attackers-hijack-mastodon-serversRumor: Windows 12https://www.techspot.com/news/99301-windows-12-rumored-arrive-next-fall-floating-taskbar.html

Reddit implosion update, gfycat to close, breach at USPTO, and AI comes to e-bikes Links Urtopia e-bikes, now with ChatGPThttps://gizmodo.com/urtopia-e-bike-chatgpt-ai-hype-1850582746Mojaing to drop r/minecraft as official channelhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/14kj3z7/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_feedback/Gfycat to shut down on Sept 1https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/02/gfycat-com-shuts-down-on-september-1-and-all-gifs-will-be-taken-down/USPTO discovers data leak in its trademark toolshttps://techcrunch.com/2023/06/28/uspto-trademark-data-api-leak/

Sony wields the FTC against Microsoft in injunction hearing, Tecnam scraps plans for EV airplane, and Edge helpfully leaks your privacy Links: Sony v. MSFT battle while FTC watcheshttps://www.techspot.com/news/99184-here-biggest-revelations-microsoft-vs-ftc-hearing.htmlTecnam scraps plans for commercial EV airplanehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/15/pioneering-electric-plane-shelved-batteries/New Edge feature helpfully sends images you view to Microsofthttps://uk.pcmag.com/browsers/147299/enhance-image-function-in-edge-browser-sends-image-urls-to-microsofthttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whitepaper/