Dead Car Data Leak, DVD Deja vu, Dreddit, Default Fonts, & ±X

August 25, 2023 by
Dead Car Data Leak, DVD Deja  vu, Dreddit, Default Fonts, & ±X
Lighthouse IT Solutions, Matthew Almendinger

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - August 25th, 2023

This week, Matt & Griff discuss issues with Tesla vehicles (and modern automobiles in general), good/bad news over at X, "epic" legal battles between Epic and Apple, Chrome to use AI to summarize your web content, Netflix finally ending their DVD-by-mail service (seriously thought they did already), Microsoft's new default font, and more!

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News

Tesla files notice for data breach

This get way worse when you remember that Tesla vehicles store images and videos recorded by their built in cameras.

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Where do broken cars go when they die?

Well anywhere that someone is willing to take it, but what does that mean now that so many cars have built in computers storing information about their drivers.

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Patch now: Juniper Junos OS contains chainable flaws

An unfortunate combo of two vulnerabilities with a severity ranking of "medium" can be exploited together to create a vulnerability that is much more severe.

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FBI wants you… to not fall for mobile tester scams

Before you join any "mobile beta test" you best make sure that notification is actually what it seems, lest you grant hackers access to your device.

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Epic blow for Epic's petition

While Epic's fight with Apple over their App Store policies had made some progress in California, a recent Appeals court ruling has halted that momentum.

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Reddit? More like Dreddit!

Reddit continues to make questionable choices by making good on their threats to commandeer subreddits that continue the blackout in protest of Reddit's wildly unpopular changes to their API pricing.

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Is this déjà vu? Netflix to kill off DVDs-by-mail service

I know, it's just as shocking to me as it presumably is to you, who knew Netflix was still offering DVDs by mail, although that's about to come to an end in September.

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New CEO for X makes big claims

Mostly that they are starting to turn things around for the better, but they have a long road ahead of them to bring back the people who were turned off by the many changes they have made.

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Chrome will soon summarize articles for you using generative AI

It's still in beta, but Google is looking to provide you with summaries of articles as you actively read them.

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Threads is officially coming to a PC near you

As of early August it has been publicly announced that Meta is working on a web version of Threads to make it available on desktop by September.

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Glitch or goal - Musk admits — X may fail' after a "glitch" erased data

All images uploaded to X/Twitter prior to December 2014 have been lost. Conspiracies about what the actual reason/cause for this are being thrown around.

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Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel all get a new default font

After ten years of Calibri and much user feedback, Microsoft is finally making a change to the default theme of Office365 products.

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