Tag: electric-vehicles

Angry Tech News #66: Density Exclusive

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date June 27, 2023

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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 watches
https://www.techspot.com/news/99184-here-biggest-revelations-microsoft-vs-ftc-hearing.html
Tecnam scraps plans for commercial EV airplane
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/15/pioneering-electric-plane-shelved-batteries/
New Edge feature helpfully sends images you view to Microsoft
https://uk.pcmag.com/browsers/147299/enhance-image-function-in-edge-browser-sends-image-urls-to-microsoft
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whitepaper/

Tags activision-blizzard, edge, electric-vehicles, ftc, microsoft, privacy, sony, tecnam

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Angry Tech News #65: Granny Echolocation

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date June 24, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:32 — 19.7MB)

Apple trademarks images of fruit, SMS can track you (duh), ChatGPT really wants to be helpful, even when its handlers won’t let it, and the EU Parliament sticks its fingers in the battery market

Links

Apple is trying to trademark all images of apples
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle
ChatGPT tricked into giving out Win11 activation keys
https://www.techspot.com/news/99126-chatgpt-can-tricked-supplying-windows-11-keys-but.html
“Freaky Leaky SMS” vuln uses SMS delivery reports to locate recipient
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sms-delivery-reports-can-be-used-to-infer-recipients-location/
New onerous EU battery rules
https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/large-carmakers-come-together-for-eus-battery-passport-plan/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/eu-smartphones-must-have-user-replaceable-batteries-by-2027

Tags apple, betteries, chatgpt, electric-vehicles, smartphones, sms, trademark

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Angry Tech News #60: Conductive Rookie

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date May 23, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:17 — 36.9MB)

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

Links

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

Tags apple, electric-vehicles, google, microsoft, sweden, toyota, windows-11

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Angry Tech News #46: Nefarious Inefficiencies

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date January 31, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:25 — 23.4MB)

CES 2023 rundown, Another phone vulnerability, Xbox likes to think it’s green, and more EV stories than I meant to put in this show!

Also, angry thanks to Baron Spud the Mitey, whom I forgot to call out, but who still supports the show immensely.

Links:

Alexa smart toilet from Kohler
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/19/23510864/kohler-numi-smart-toilet-alexa-ces-2022
CNET: Upcoming CES Products
https://www.cnet.com/tech/ces-products-coming-in-2023/
Earspy vulnerability
https://www.androidpolice.com/earspy-attack-eavesdrop-using-motion-sensors/
Consumer spending on apps dropped 2%
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/app-downloads-stagnant/ar-AA16Jjlo
Zenimax testers vote to unionize
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-videogame-testers-form-companys-first-us-union-2023-01-03/
UK – EV charge costs more than petrol
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/consumer/average-ev-fast-charging-costs-soar-above-petrol
US – EV charge costs more than gas
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/30/nolte-cheaper-drive-gas-powered-car-100-miles-than-average-electric-car/
WY legislators introduce bill to ban gas-powered cars
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/wyoming-lawmakers-push-for-electric-car-ban-and-to-limit-sales-by-2035/ar-AA16rHNN
Heavier EVs raise safety concerns
https://techaeris.com/2023/01/13/ntsb-raises-concerns-that-evs-might-be-unsafe-as-curb-weights-rise/
Copper thieves stripping electric charging stations
https://evol.news/news/copper-thieves-have-new-target-electric-vehicle-charging-stations/
Xbox pretends they’re green
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/xbox/ar-AA16ec2c

Tags apps, ces, electric-vehicles, microsoft, vulnerability, xbox

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Angry Tech News #27: Inexplicably Microwave

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date March 22, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:51 — 11.6MB)

Duck Duck Go seppuku; Steps toward a new Russian internet; California’s newest grid storage scheme; Ford sells incomplete cars; UK cracks down on BCH ATMs; IoT + auto updates = hilarity; and Linux where it shouldn’t be!

Links

DDG plays with fire
https://mashable.com/article/duckduckgo-search-engine-russian-disinformation

Search engines
https://qwant.com
https://search.brave.com
https://startpage.com
https://searx.github.io/searx/

Russia creates TLS cert authority
https://www.techradar.com/news/russia-creates-its-own-tls-certificate-authority-to-bypass-sanctions

GM tests bidirectional charging
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085233003/gm-electric-vehicles-home-power

Ford ships incomplete vehicles
https://www.autonews.com/nada/ford-will-ship-and-sell-vehicles-without-chips-controlling-non-safety-critical-features

UK shuts down crypto ATMs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60709209

AEG Microwaves think they’re steam ovens
https://thenextweb.com/news/update-brainwashes-microwaves-thinking-theyre-steam-ovens

Linux on M1 chip
https://www.zdnet.com/article/asahi-linux-for-m1-apple-silicon-gets-its-first-alpha-release/