This study looks at how and with whom connected #cars share your data

In news that should surprise very few, connected cars remain a complete #privacy nightmare. But now we have a better idea of what data those cars are giving away, and to whom, thanks to a study conducted by a team of researchers at #NortheasternUniversity and #ConsumerReports. Testing 21 cars from 19 different brands revealed patterns of traffic to #advertisers and #trackers , as well as data shared with Big Tech firms like #Microsoft and #Adobe. And using a car’s companion app can multiply the problem, their testing found.

In 2023, the #Mozilla Foundation published a widely covered report looking at the privacy policies of more than two dozen #automakers. They were appalled, writing that “cars are the worst product category we have ever reviewed for privacy.”

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/connected-car-data-privacy-is-still-abysmal-study-finds/

You may think three cups of coffee is a lot, and you'd be absolutely correct about that 🙂‍↕️🫪🫨

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/post/3mwo745wwhc2g

@arq_urb_sudaka Vc não tem vergonha de usar essa fonte porca da direita (independente da veracidade dos fatos)?
Ademais vc quer sugerir que um futuro governo Lula poderia reduzir o valor das aposentadorias? Qual é a sua? 🤢

@davidgerard

just the worst abstraction for this. its a Node And Wire program, but written in textual form, in a string, in a shell language with terrible programming tools

none of this is good

My daughter sent me this & yes to all of it - I hadn't even thought of the fonts thing, but it's totally on point, too; there's a reason font design is a major speciality skill, you don't just pull something like that out of your ass.

#AI #StopTheSlop

@nitot Les génies (sisi) de @deuxfleurs étaient venus nous présenter leurs idées à Zenika Lille, et c'était incroyable (deux ou trois collègues auto-hébergeurs étaient complètement fans)

@jk i thought this was gonna segue into https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/5fsz4z/chronicles_of_riddick_morning_routine/

@thomasfuchs on Droid 4 it runs much better than it ever did on the N900.

@jplebreton @jedbrown @jonny oh no I mean I don't think he knows what "metaphysics" actually means lol

I have rather got out of the habit of going to conferences, and perhaps I should remedy that.

The last one was FOSDEM (which was not for me), but surely there must be something smaller and more local which is up my street.

I used to speak at conferences multiple times a year, and then I just... didn't.

RE: https://mstdn.science/@MarcAbrahams/117355712313509121

Robotaxis are basically a scam. There are so many ways they can trap you in horrific situations that a human driver could easily extricate from. And they can even kidnap you, as a pair of teens found out.

@happyborg Yeah, it's not ideal, but there's resemblence of sanity in there. It seems to be mainly motivated by quality of code, and not ethics of how it's made unfortunately...

@thomasfuchs so much for the internet being decentralised.

I guess it makes it easy to figure out if someone attacks the US because the whole of the internet probably won’t be working

RE: https://amicale.net/@franceinfo/117355118800414979

Mélenchon a un rapport extrêmement problématique à la presse, mais il aurait dit ça, il aurait été mis en détention provisoire dans la minute et son parti dissous.

@404mediaco All we need now is drones and robots with guns (or lasers) and we'll be crime free and living in a utopia!

@kev What's the deciding factor to flip between the two?

you may or may not need to include some video codec information in there too

and you have to do this for _every_ segment of black that you want to remove. you can chain them together, for sure, but this is what a single removal looks like

fuckin awful