e432 – Monitoring Pirated Cars

Photo by Samuele Errico Piccarini on Unsplash

Published 11 September 2023

This week, Michael R and Andy hold the fort while Michael M is on secret missions! The show kicks off with regulation around tech in the UK and in the EU. Andy is still able to use of iMessage and WhatsApp for a little while longer after the UK Government backs down from breaking end-to-end encryption – but for how long?

Moving on to the car industry. BMW has been in the news again, choosing not to require consumers to subscribe in order to use hardware capabilities (like, heated seats). More worryingly, the Mozilla Foundation has published an extensive review into the privacy policies of a huge number of car manufacturers, and the results are… not good…

There’s a brief chat about American sports players and wearables, Rockstar Games selling pirated / cracked copies of their own games via Steam, and a look at 3D tech from Magic Leap and Lenovo.

We round out the show with a couple of fun links about using a Gameboy Camera over USB-C with iPadOS 17, and what our digital assistants get up to in the break room at the office when we’re not asking them questions.

Let us know what you think in the comments, or via Mastodon @gamesatwork_biz@botsin.space – and join us for more, next time!

Selected Article Links

Bad regulations

Andy’s safe – For now – https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861030/imessage-bing-european-union-commission-digital-markets-act-dma and https://www.wired.co.uk/article/britain-admits-defeat-in-online-safety-bill-encryption

Auto roundup

BMW – https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863258/bmw-cancel-heated-seat-subscription-microtransaction

BWW and Amazon –  https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23859450/bmw-aws-cloud-autonomous-driving-data 

BMW EV Concept – https://mashable.com/article/bmw-neue-klasse-electric-concept-car

Cars suck at privacy – https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Gadgets in sport

FSU Apple Watch –https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/apple-watch-lsu-fsu-game/

Piracy and video game preservation

Rockstar and DRM – https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rockstar-just-proved-how-important-piracy-is-for-game-preservation/

3D stuff

Magic Leap end of life – https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/01/magic-leaps-original-headset-will-stop-working-at-the-end-of-2024/ 

Lenovo 27 inch 3D monitor – https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/lenovo-adds-glasses-free-3d-to-a-27-inch-monitor-for-2999/ 

Fun

Gameboy Cameras and FaceTime! https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/07/ipados-17-game-boy-camera-for-facetime-calls/

Behind the scenes – AI Assistant server break room (watch to the end!) – https://sfba.social/@jonathankoren/110991484729591248 

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