Ubiquity networks done it again, they’re doing things with their router, switch, and access point firmware that are getting on people’s nerves. This time, it is making firmware that indiscriminately phones home via a secure connection, without any means of user configuration to disable it. Enterprise users are really upset that they are performing “data exfiltration” transparently and sidestepping enterprise security controls.
20191110/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_phone_home/.
Also, one of Uber’s self-driving SUVs has killed a jaywalking pedestrian, the first of its kind, root cause being partly due to Uber’s software not expecting to detect a jaywalking pedestrian, failing to recognize such, and thus failing to assign proper goals until it was too late. Unfortunately the SUV’s emergency braking was also disabled since it was purported to cause “erratic” behavior and render the vehicle inoperable.
Although there was a driver at the wheel, he looked down at his phone seconds before the impact and thus was unable to recognize and react until it was too late.
20191110/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/06/uber_self_driving_car_death/