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Databricks launches Lakehouse Platform to help manufacturers harness data and AI
Farming Simulator plows the way for equipment manufacturers’ ad campaigns
‘Manufacturers will put a screen on anything’ I say staring at a distro plate with a 7-inch monitor built in
Samsung may put its free TV Plus streaming app into other manufacturers’ TVs
Samsung TV Plus, the app that houses hundreds of free channels, could eventually make its way to other, non-Samsung TVs. That’s according to media tech reporter Janko Roettgers, who writes in his Lowpass newsletter that Samsung’s in talks to bring its streaming app to TCL TVs.
Introduced in 2015, Samsung TV Plus is a free, ad-supported streaming (FAST) service that comes preinstalled on newer Samsung TVs. The service gives viewers a way to flip through a collection of channels, much like you would with a traditional TV service.
Samsung TV Plus has a pretty strong slate of content for a free app, with Samsung adding popular shows like Top Gear, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, NCIS, and Chicago Fire last August. It also offers a range…
New York’s right-to-repair bill has major carve-outs for manufacturers
During the lull between last Christmas and New Year’s, New York State became one of the first in the country to enact a “right to repair” law — albeit with amended language that some advocates say make the law toothless. Called the Digital Fair Repair Act and set to go into effect on July 1, […]
New York’s right-to-repair bill has major carve-outs for manufacturers by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Phone manufacturers: please give us the power button back
Every major phone manufacturer is guilty of a serious crime, and I won’t be quiet about it any longer: they stole the power button from us. Apple, Google, Samsung: guilty, guilty, guilty.
Long-pressing the power button used to bring up an option to turn your phone off, but then these companies decided to get cute and make this a shortcut to summon their digital assistant. This is bad and wrong, and I’m politely demanding that these companies return what they took from us.
Look, I get the logic. When phone screens got bigger, physical buttons like Apple’s home button were axed, and existing buttons had to pick up the slack. In the iPhone X, Apple re-homed the Siri function to the power button. Since then, turning your iPhone off has…
America Now Requires Drone Manufacturers to Include ‘Remote ID’ Transmitting
Manufacturers of drones made after 16 September 2022 must, from today (16 December), ensure that those drones are “Standard Remote ID” compliant. This means that the drones must broadcast packets of data once per second (using Bluetooth or Wifi) that contain the position speed and path of the drone, a unique identifier and the operator’s position including height above ground….
Already, several companies have announced their intention to build networks of receivers that will create a realtime database of all drone activity in the USA, showing the positions of the drones and their operators and flagging any non-compliant craft.
By September 16, 2023, all U.S. hobbyists must fit “broadcast remote ID” modules to their RC model aircraft or older drones which also make them Remote ID compliant (unless they are under 250g in mass or are flown in pre-approved areas called FRIAs)….
Drone and radio-controlled model aircraft users must register with the FAA [unless they weigh less than 0.55 pounds], sit (and pass) a knowledge test and soon have this Remote ID technology installed on all their craft.
“Remote ID helps the FAA, law enforcement, and other federal agencies find the control station when a drone appears to be flying in an unsafe manner or where it is not allowed to fly,” argues an FAA web page. This week the top intelligence official at the U.S. Department of Defense told reporters that drones, including drones operated by amateur hobbyists and by foreign adversaries, account for many of the reports of Unidentified Flying Objects, according to the Washington Post.
They quote Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of America’s new UFO-tracking agency, as saying that “Some of these things almost collide with planes. We see that on a regular basis….”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google says Google and other Android manufacturers haven’t patched security flaws
Google has disclosed several security flaws for phones that have Mali GPUs, such as those with Exynos SoCs. The company’s Project Zero team says it flagged the problems to ARM (which designs the GPUs) back in the summer. ARM resolved the issues on its end in July and August. However, smartphone manufacturers including Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo and Google itself hadn’t deployed patches to fix the vulnerabilities as of earlier this week, Project Zero said.
Researchers identified five new issues in June and July and promptly flagged them to ARM. “One of these issues led to kernel memory corruption, one led to physical memory addresses being disclosed to userspace and the remaining three led to a physical page use-after-free condition,” Project Zero’s Ian Beer wrote in a blog post. “These would enable an attacker to continue to read and write physical pages after they had been returned to the system.”
Beer noted that it would be possible for a hacker to gain full access to a system as they’d be able to bypass the permissions model on Android and gain “broad access” to a user’s data. The attacker could do so by forcing the kernel to reuse the afore-mentioned physical pages as page tables.
Project Zero found that, three months after ARM fixed these issues, all of the team’s test devices were still vulnerable to the flaws. As of Tuesday, the issues were not mentioned “in any downstream security bulletins” from Android manufacturers.
Engadget has contacted Google, Samsung, Oppo and Xiaomi to ask when they will deploy the fixes to their Android devices and why it has taken so long for them to do so. As SamMobile notes, Samsung’s Galaxy S22 series devices and the company’s Snapdragon-powered handsets aren’t affected by these vulnerabilities.
Katana, an ERP for SMB manufacturers, raises $34M
Katana, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. ERP is a form of business management software that can serve any number of functions inside a company, from marketing and risk management, to supply chain management and beyond. Integrations […]
Katana, an ERP for SMB manufacturers, raises $34M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch