Using LIDAR sensors, Cadillac mapped 160,000 miles of U.S. highways “within five centimeters of accuracy” to give its hands-free-on-the-highway cars the ability to better anticipate the roads ahead — and to know when a human driver should take over. An…
Should Burger King Be Prosecuted For Their Google Home-Triggering Ads?
Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein thinks Burger King should be prosecuted for successfully running an alternate version of its advertisement to trigger Google Home devices again Wednesday: Someone — or more likely a bunch of someones — at Burger King and…
FDA Slams St. Jude Medical For Ignoring Security Flaws In Medical Devices
chicksdaddy quotes a report from The Security Ledger: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a letter of warning to medical device maker Abbott on Wednesday, slamming the company for what it said was a pattern of overlooking security and…
Microsoft Confirms Only a Handful of Windows Phones Will Receive Windows 10 Creators Update
Windows Phone has less than a 1 percent market share in the mobile industry, but it is not completely dead, yet. In fact, if you own a relatively new Windows Phone, it may receive a new update that will give…
Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block
ewhac writes: Earlier this week, Burger King released a broadcast television ad that opened with an actor saying, “Ok, Google, what is the Whopper?” thereby triggering any Google Home device in hearing range to respond to the injected request with…
Zelda: Breath of the Wild Is Now the Fastest-Selling Nintendo Launch Title of All Time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: It’s no surprise that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch, a console that just had its strongest U.S. opening ever for…
FriendlyElec Releases $40 NanoPi K2 Board That Competes With ODROID-C2, Raspberry Pi 3
DeathByLlama writes: The single board computer market, broken wide-open just a few years ago by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, continues to flourish today as FriendELEC releases their $40 NanoPi K2 board. This SBC packs a 1.5 GHz 64-bit quad core…
Exploit Kit Activity Quiets, But Is Far From Silent
Here are the exploit kits to watch for over the next three to six months.
Stories From Two Years in an IoT Honeypot
A researcher at this year’s Security Analyst Summit staged a series of honeypots at his friends’ houses to record IoT traffic, exploit attempts and other statistics.
Threatpost News Wrap, April 14, 2017
Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap Infiltrate Con in Miami last week, and Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit in St. Maarten