Saturday, August 02
Daily News Stuff 2 August 2025
That Happened Edition
That Happened Edition
Top Story
- UK premium luggage service Airportr, which provided door-to-door service and worked with ten European airlines, was not hacked, exactly. (Wired) (archive site)
Because it had no security at all. Anyone could look up anyone's personal information, or even log in as an administrator and redirect their luggage.The vulnerabilities resulted in complete confidential private information exposure of all airline customers in all countries who used the service of this company, including full control over all the bookings and baggage. Because once you are the super-admin of their most sensitive systems, you have have the ability to do anything.
It was found by security analysts before anyone took advantage of it. The CEO of security group Cyber9X is quoted above.
Tech News
- Three senior executives are retiring from Intel Foundry, Intel's foundry division. (Tom's Hardware)
The departures come as Intel implements a major cost-cutting plan, aiming to reduce its global workforce by 15%. The company expects to close the year with approximately 75,000 employees worldwide, which means that the company will have fired 30,000 people in 2025.
Those numbers don't add up because Intel has already laid off 15,000 staff this year.
- Titan Quest II is out in early access right now, available on Steam at 50% of the planned launch price of $50. (WCCFTech)
Titan Quest was a great game - linear, yes, but a very long line - but that was all the way back in 2006.
Titan Quest II is reportedly good as well, though the playable content in the early access release so far only lasts about four hours.
- Google has filed an emergency motion in its failed case against Epic, arguing that it needs more time to make the changes ordered. (Thurrott)
Google has been given only 14 days to deliver, which is not a lot of time, true.
But the lawsuit started five years ago, and Epic won the case - on all counts - twenty months ago.
Time for Google to pull an all-nighter.
- Atlassian - Australia's largest tech company as far as I know - fired 150 of its European staff via prerecorded video. (Cyberdaily)
I used to kind of like Atlassian because small companies could buy any of their products for $10 and host them on they own servers. They did get their fangs into you as you grew, of course.
Now it's just loathing all the way down.
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Fine Google 1 week's worth of global revenue for every day they're late.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, August 03 2025 12:16 AM (1zWbY)
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"Every person should be using AI daily for as many things as they can."
Can "AI" cook my breakfast or walk my dog, or is Scott Farquhar just less insane than the emotionless automaton Mike Cannon-Brookes?
Can "AI" cook my breakfast or walk my dog, or is Scott Farquhar just less insane than the emotionless automaton Mike Cannon-Brookes?
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, August 03 2025 12:22 AM (1zWbY)
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The accel and 'woohoo, AI' types have /some/ points. It is good that we mechanized agriculture, and it is good we automated away the ditch digging jobs.
but, logically, if refrigerated nutrient paste is less prep time because I can use a machine for it, and do it up in large batches, then I should always eat my paste in solitude.
As a whole, the movement has at least extremes of technocratic analytical failures, where they assume without checking that a machine exists to do a given efficiency, or they assume that they know better about some far off task than the people closest to the task.
If I spend my every day mostly doing target tracking via sensors, than I may or may not know about cases where the machine does it better.
(Wish my bro luck, next week he is making an argument about him knowing better than anyone else to a very select group of gentlemen.)
Anyway, I think we can effectively automate away a bunch of executive positions by sending random lines from a text file by email to everyone in an organization.
but, logically, if refrigerated nutrient paste is less prep time because I can use a machine for it, and do it up in large batches, then I should always eat my paste in solitude.
As a whole, the movement has at least extremes of technocratic analytical failures, where they assume without checking that a machine exists to do a given efficiency, or they assume that they know better about some far off task than the people closest to the task.
If I spend my every day mostly doing target tracking via sensors, than I may or may not know about cases where the machine does it better.
(Wish my bro luck, next week he is making an argument about him knowing better than anyone else to a very select group of gentlemen.)
Anyway, I think we can effectively automate away a bunch of executive positions by sending random lines from a text file by email to everyone in an organization.
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