Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine [Fri Jun 2 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 June 2023 ***************************************************************** Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick! ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle * Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax' Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg On-Prem * Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny And, ahem, other publishers * Watchdog calls for automatic braking to be standard in cars When's the perfect time for a mandate? When everyone's already doing it * Microsoft embraces Apple Mac loyalists – as long as they're using its software iDevice admins now have a safe space where they can talk about M365 * Smartphone recovery that's always around the corner is around the corner Pay a bill or buy new phone? That lovely question facing some of us in 2023 * Linux Foundation and pals – including Intel – back software ecosystem around RISC-V Aiming to get a RISE out of processor architecture as tech giants commit engineering talent * What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip? * WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC Very handy technology, literally Security * Deployed publicly accessible MOVEit Transfer? Oh no. Mass exploitation underway Time to MOVEit, MOVEit. We don't like to MOVEit, MOVEit * Kremlin claims Apple helped NSA spy on diplomats via iPhone backdoor Did we just time warp back to 2013? * Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick! * Ukraine war blurs lines between cyber-crims and state-sponsored attackers This RomCom is no laughing matter Software * Amazon finds something else AI can supposedly do well: Spotting damaged goods Any chance of an ML model to identify labor law violations? No? Surprise * California rolls closer to requiring drivers in driverless trucks Next: Alcohol in non-alcoholic booze, bacon in vegan salads. We kid, we kid * UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement Second time lucky? But departments still lack funding to complete strategy, watchdog says * Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers Keep that hype train rolling, please Offbeat * Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science * India official fined after draining reservoir to recover phone Dam it all to hell * NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing We need better data! If only everyone could carry a high-quality camera and apps to share pics... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: