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Angry Tech News #61: Brute Ford

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Asus breaks the internet, hacking fingerprint sensors for fun and profit, yet another reason to fear IoT, and where to charge your Ford EV on the road

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BrutePrint attack
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/hackers-can-brute-force-fingerprint-authentication-of-android-devices/
Wemo SmartPlug buffer overflow vuln
https://sternumiot.com/iot-blog/mini-smart-plug-v2-vulnerability-buffer-overflow/
Ford EVs to adopt Tesla charging standard
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44016347/ford-tesla-ev-charging-opinion/
ASUS pushes bad config file to millions of routers; breaks internet for two days
https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1050466
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/
https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/

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Angry Tech News #60: Conductive Rookie

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Toyota data breach affects millions of cars, Windows 11 installs stuff you don’t want, Public Service Announcements from Apple & Google, and the electrified road idea that just won’t go away

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Toyota breach leaks 10 years of car location data
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/toyota-car-location-data-of-2-million-customers-exposed-for-ten-years/
Sweden threatens to build electric roads
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/sweden/ar-AA1bjFB4
Apple urges users to patch iOS due to three zero-day vulnerabilities
https://www.techspot.com/news/98769-apple-urges-users-upgrade-their-ios-following-new.html
Google to shut down old accounts
https://www.techspot.com/news/98714-google-start-deleting-inactive-accounts-later-year.html
Windows 11 has tiktok
https://bigtechquestion.com/2023/03/13/software/windows/tiktok-installed-windows-11-pc/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/11vt8x3/has_tiktok_been_getting_automatically_installed/
Youtube ad costs
https://foundr.com/articles/marketing/youtube-ads-cost-breakdown

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Angry Tech News #59: Space Snooze

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Apple store union finds its voice, Facebook continues using its business model, Windows gets more ads, and Pixies hack Google phones

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FTC proposal to bar Facebook from monetizing kids
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/ftc-proposes-blanket-prohibition-preventing-facebook-monetizing-youth-data
Apple Store union issues its first demands
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/03/unionized-apple-store-tips-from-customers/
Pixies song causes google alarm to fail
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pixies-disabling-alarms-google-phones/
Win11 gets control panel ads
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ads-badging-office-365-onedrive-windows-11-1850414970
https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-could-cram-more-ads-into-windows-11-this-time-in-the-settings-app

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Angry Tech News #58: Grail Promise

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Samsung has a bad quarter, Activision-Blizzard purchase hits a snag, Windows 10 receives its last update, Netflix experiences the totally-expected results of their crackdown, and the NFL’s True Fans get a scare

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Samsung Q1 profits down 95%
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/samsung/ar-AA1aoTIi
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/samsung/ar-AA1at9e3
East TX jury verdict against Samsung for $303 million
https://www.reuters.com/legal/samsung-hit-with-303-mln-jury-verdict-computer-memory-patent-lawsuit-2023-04-21/
Microsoft will not be updating Windows 10 anymore
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10-22h2-is-the-final-version-of-windows-10/
Netflix loses a million subscribers in Spain
https://www.kantar.com/inspiration/fmcg/netflix-crackdown-on-password-sharing-results-in-over-1-million-fewer-subscribers-in-spain
UK regulator denies Microsoft purchase of Activision-Blizzard
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65378617
Comcast drops NFL Network for 24h
https://www.totalprosports.com/nfl/comcast-drops-nfl-network/

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Angry Tech News #57: Replacement Factoid

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Chromebook e-waste, another iphone hack, and three Silicon Valley companies with failing business models

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Lockdown-chromebooks are becoming an e-waste problem
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-education-fund-report-investigation-chromebook-churn
Netflix crackdown on password sharing comes to US
https://mashable.com/article/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown
iphone hack can get you locked out of all Apple services
https://www.techspot.com/news/98386-little-known-iphone-setting-allows-thieves-take-over.html
Reddit to charge for access to user-generated content
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/
StackOverflow to charge for access to user-generated content
https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/

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Angry Tech News #56: Hypothesis Permission

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Robot cops in NYC, Cell towers on the moon, Sideloading IOS apps, and a most unlikely conspiracy theory comes true

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NYC robot cop
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/nypd-robocops-hulking-400-lb-robots-will-start-patrolling-new-york-city/
Rumor: ios 17 to allow sideloading
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/17/app-sideloading-support-coming-ios-17/
Another conspiracy theory proven true
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/dead-birds-get-new-life-new-mexico-researchers-develop-taxidermy-bird-drones-2023-04-13/
Cellular network on the moon
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/28/nokia-set-to-launch-4g-internet-on-the-moon-later-this-year.html

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Angry Tech News #55: Unauthorized Emulator

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Western Digital cloud outage, Microsoft bans emulators, and your Tesla is spying on you

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The economy vs Apple
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/apple-joins-amazon-google-and-microsoft-in-tech-industry-layoffs/
Western Digital vs the Cloud
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/western-digital/ar-AA19Goo3
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/03/western_digital_confirms_security_incident/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/users-fume-after-my-cloud-network-breach-locks-them-out-of-their-data/
Xbox vs Emulators
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/microsoft-crackdown-disables-emulators-downloaded-to-xbox-consoles/
Tesla vs Privacy
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

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Angry Tech News #54: Broken Valve

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Audiobook ads, a massive corporate supply chain attack, Pwn2Own 2023 (as promised), and digital libraries: not even once

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Valve to block support for Win7, Win8 machines
https://www.techspot.com/news/98099-valve-ending-steam-support-windows-7-8-81.html
pwn2own 2023
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-11-tesla-ubuntu-and-macos-hacked-at-pwn2own-2023/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2023/3/23/pwn2own-vancouver-2023-day-two-results
https://www.techworm.net/2023/03/pwn2own-windows-workstation-cracked-on-last-day.html
Audible adds ads to audiobooks
https://www.engadget.com/audible-is-now-testing-ads-in-your-audiobooks-for-some-reason-185337088.html
3CX VOIP client suffers supply chain attack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-compromise-3cx-desktop-app-in-a-supply-chain-attack/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/30/theres-a-new-supply-chain-attack-targeting-customers-of-a-phone-system-with-12-million-users/
3ds, WiiU shops closed
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/its-your-last-chance-to-buy-from-nintendos-wii-u-and-3ds-eshops-072838697.html

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Angry Tech News #53: Cropped Estate

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Why you shouldn’t trust random USB drives, Google vulnerabilities, Microsoft vulnerabilities, Netgear vulnerabilities, and the true ending of Moore’s Law

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Gordon Moore outlived his law
https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1611/gordon-moore-intel-co-founder-dies-at-94
Pinduoduo app found to exploit Android vulnerability
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/android-app-from-china-executed-0-day-exploit-on-millions-of-devices/
Ecuadorian journalist plugs in malicious USB drive
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/journalist-plugs-in-unknown-usb-drive-mailed-to-him-it-exploded-in-his-face/
Snippingtool Acropalypse
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-pushes-oob-security-updates-for-windows-snipping-tool-flaw/
https://9to5google.com/2023/03/18/pixel-markup-screenshot-vulnerability/
Cisco publishes Netgear vulnerabilities
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/22/netgear_router_poc_exploits

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Angry Tech News #52: Oreo Demographic

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AI and TikTok, TikTok and AI. Also, Right to Repair, Tesla security, and HP printers are still an ink scam

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Anthropic releases Claude AI
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/anthropic-introduces-claude-a-more-steerable-ai-competitor-to-chatgpt/
AI-powered Clippy
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/16/23642833/microsoft-365-ai-copilot-word-outlook-teams
Baidu demos ErnieBot
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/16/1069919/baidu-ernie-bot-chatgpt-launch/
Tesla faces right-to-repair suit
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-faces-new-lawsuit-over-monopoly-power-in-repairs-parts-business-174255450.html
HP Dynamic Security
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/customers-fume-as-hp-blocks-third-party-ink-from-more-of-its-printers/
Man drives off in wrong Tesla
https://globalnews.ca/news/9541040/bc-tesla-driving-wrong-car-app/