Some hack for good, some hack for evil,
and some hack because Taylor Swift's Eras Tour sold out too quickly. Or at
least that's how it seems now that Ticketmaster hackers have leaked what
they claim are valid Taylor Swift tickets. Now that might sound cool and
Robin Hood-like, but unfortunately, it is not. This goes back to May when
hacker group and sparkly twilight vampires Shiny Hunters allegedly stole
the data of 500 million Ticketmaster customers, including 193 million ticket
barcodes. To try and put the pressure on Ticketmaster to pay a ransom, Shiny
Hunters seems to have released the ticket data for 166,000
Taylor Swift tickets with instructions on how to turn this data into scannable
barcodes. Ticketmaster has released a statement saying no customers are at
risk of losing their tickets because their SafeTix technology refreshes
ticket barcodes every few seconds, preventing them from being stolen or
copied. Having said that, they also advertise that their barcodes are saved
offline to the Ticketmaster app once viewed, which could imply the tickets
could be transferred. One software engineer already found a way around
SafeTix just to avoid using Ticketmaster's god-awful app. Oh, and
also scalpers have been bypassing Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes for at
least a year now. So, yeah, they're they're just straight-up lying. Boeing
has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US government in relation
to the two fatal crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019. Those crashes killed a
total of 346 people, but Boeing gave the Department of Justice a strong defense
against going to trial. Money. In 2021, Boeing made a $2.5
billion deal with the DOJ that required the aeronautics firm to implement major
safety changes and engage in no wrongdoing for 3 years. But after the
door blew out on that Alaska Airlines flight earlier this year, the DOJ
smartly determined that Boeing had broken the terms of the deal. Now,
Boeing has accepted a new deal to avoid a trial that will require them to spend
at least $455 million on improving compliance and safety programs. And
they're definitely not going to break another promise to the US government.
That'd be crazy. They pinky swore.
Not everyone is super happy with this deal. For example, the families of the
crash victims. They've made it known that they will be asking the court to
reject the deal, believing it fails to hold Boeing accountable. And yeah, when
you think about how Boeing's deception of federal regulators led to hundreds of
deaths, a promise to do better next time does sound a bit inadequate. PC hardware
manufacturer ZOTAC has come under fire for allowing anyone to access private
customer data with a simple Google search. According to an investigation by
Gamers Nexus, the company seemed to have been storing RMA files containing full
names, mailing addresses, and other sensitive customer information in a
publicly accessible server, making them accessible in Google search. Not only
was customer data exposed, but business-to-business invoices were also
equally Googleable. Fortunately, it seems ZOTAC is now trying to fix the
issue. While links will still show up in web searches, they appear to be dead
when you actually click on them. But before we give ZOTAC too much credit for
doing the bare minimum after a maximum screw-up, some information is still
stored in Google's cache. So, if you happen to have bought and then returned
any ZOTAC merchandise, you may want to search your name and ZOTAC to see if any
results pop up. You can request that Google remove the result from search by
clicking the three dots in the top right of the result, or you can leave it up
and just pretend you're famous. I'm basically Taylor Swift.
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They're very sharp. Contrary to previous rumors, AM5 will not be getting a boost
in the 3D V-Cache department over the previous 7000 X3D series chips.
According to WCCFTech, the new 9000 X3D processors will feature
up to 128 or 96 MB of L3 cache on dual
and single CCDs, respectively. If there's one thing we love in technology,
it's when things stay the same. Like core counts and clock speeds, the latter
of which haven't been confirmed yet for the X3D variants. Unless you're into
overclocking, you might want to wait to upgrade. Qualcomm seems to be leaving
users of ARM-based Copilot Plus laptops to fend for themselves when it comes to
compatibility issues. After Microsoft espoused its Prism x86 emulator for
Snapdragon X notebooks, Samsung warned customers that its Galaxy Book Edge 4
Copilot Plus PC cannot run some common
software. According to The Register, Qualcomm is simply directing concerned
users to community-made crowdsourced websites that list compatible apps
without explaining why some apps can't be emulated. Meanwhile, Microsoft is
apparently continuing to parrot that x86 emulation works great. But hey, I guess
the Windows on ARM revolution couldn't be a real revolution if the new regime
wasn't pumping up propaganda. It's a real M1 moment. It takes a while. 2
years for Apple. We just learned that last month, police in Phoenix, Arizona
pulled over an autonomous Waymo vehicle that was driving in the wrong lane
towards oncoming traffic. The car's onboard system had apparently gotten a
bit scrambled by inconsistent construction signs and wound up running
a red light like a confused senior trying their best. The car had neither a
driver nor a passenger, and the police dispatch records note that the
responding officer was unable to issue citation to computer. According to
Waymo, its cars are three times better at avoiding collisions than human
drivers. Because human drivers also suck. It's
like multiplying by zero. Microsoft's Notepad is finally getting an upgrade
though. Spell check and auto-correct 41 years into development. What's next?
Predictive text in 2034? The new features came out to select users
earlier this year, but now that the massively complicated beta test is
complete, the team has deemed it ready and safe for everyone on Windows 11.
There's dozens of us. Along with all of the other developments over the past few
years like find and replace and text zooming, the debate over Notepad versus
Notepad++ is over. Plus plus wins. Just
use that one. Please. And Australian telecom companies that are now sending
suspected spam callers to Apate, an
AI-powered system designed to learn more about scammers while wasting their time
and frustrating their efforts. Apate is modeled off past scam baiting systems
like Lenny, a 2011 chatbot meant to
imitate a telephone scammer's perfect victim, a lonely old man desperate to
talk and annoy the out of them. Unlike Lenny, however, Apate can imitate
victims of any age and background, making it like a shape-shifting
time-wasting hydra of an old man who just wants to talk. My grandkids never
call. Where am I? Who are you? I DON'T HAVE any grandkids, but it won't
be a waste of your time to come back on Wednesday for more tech news, unless you
consider hearing tech news a waste of time. But in that case, why are you here
now? Still, come back though.