Security and Spying With Listening Devices (Google, Amazon, Microsoft)
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Was DNS intentionally designed to be insecure?
but noone considered that now-controversial near-truism at all when the core internet protocols were first designed and implemented. the idea of abuse was considered novel in the 1990's when commercialization and privatization brought abuse into the internet world and burst the academic bubble. a lot of old timers blamed AOL and MSN and even Usenet for the problems, but in actuality, it's what humans _always_ do at scale. putting the full spectrum of human culture atop a technology platform designed for academic and professional culture should have been understood to be a recipe for disaster.
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Smart meters in England are mysteriously switching to Welsh
Bulb says that the problem has occurred in around 200 cases and that it takes five steps to fix it, though if you don't know Welsh, you'll need to get Bulb to talk you through it by way of numbers of button pushes.
"While we think Welsh is a great language, we understand that in many cases people will want their display to be in English." it jibbered in a statement.
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'Defnydd heddiw': Smart meter displays in England turn Welsh in bizarre language glitch
One customer, James Tombs, who lives well over 100 miles from the Welsh border, in West Sussex, told us: "I don't live in Wales and don't know Welsh. One day I saw my meter was in Welsh but ignored it as I was busy. I then came back to it later and realised that the screen was locked, the buttons didn't do anything and the unit wasn't updating. The clock was stuck at 15.47.
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iOS 13 beta exposes iCloud Keychain passwords and usernames
This allows for access to iCloud Keychain passwords, which pretty much means access to a whole suite of usernames and passwords stored by Apple's cloud service. We can envision the potential for another iCloud hack, only with leaked nudes of early adopter Apple fanatics rather than celebs indulging their promiscuous sides.
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Windows 10 will soon allow third-party voice assistants to take precedence over Cortana
Watch out for the change is 19H2 - which will be the first bi-annual update to the operating system to be a patch rollup, similar to the old Service Packs, instead of a full new build.
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Google Home integrations are borking left, right and centre
So what's the problem? Well, from the sound of the workaround, it appears that Google has been mucking about with the API under the hood again.
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Google Assistant currently can’t connect to Philips Hue lights, fix is in the works
For the past several months, Google Home owners have been encountering spotty issues between Assitant and Philips Hue products. In recent weeks especially, this problem has only gotten worse, and currently, the two products can’t talk to each other whatsoever. For most users, this results in attempting to unlink and relink a Hue account to Assistant, but that only results in an error when trying to relink the two accounts.
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