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foone , vor 5 Tagen an Random Englisch

I don't wonder when some fool will integrate an AI assistant into a car, on the outside, so people can talk to your car and ask it when you'll be back or whatever.

But I wonder how quickly there'd be an exploit where someone could talk your car into unlocking itself

arstechnica , vor 29 Tagen an Random Englisch

Microsoft makes Recall feature off-by-default after security and privacy backlash

Windows Hello authentication, additional encryption being added to protect data.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-makes-recall-feature-off-by-default-after-security-and-privacy-backlash/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

xot , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.

"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

The C source code shown reconstructed.
In-game scene showing a status line produced by the source code.

xot , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Quinn Dunki's clean-room reverse engineering of Dan Gorlin's Choplifter for Apple II.

"The source code here is fully documented and will build and run to a version of Choplifter that is binary-identical to the original..."

https://github.com/blondie7575/ChoplifterReverse

arstechnica , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover

This time there's no over-the-air software patch.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-recalls-all-3878-cybertrucks-over-faulty-accelerator-pedal-cover/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social