Techstrong News Recap – September 20, 2022
On Sept. 20, William Willis covered the federal appeals court ruling in favor of Texas’ social media regulation, California’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon and how GM plans on spending $491 million on a plant upgrade to support electric vehicle production. He also talked about Samsung’s plans to achieve 100% clean energy usage by 2050 and how a hacker is holding Grand Theft Auto VI source code for ransom from Rockstar Games. Finally, he previewed articles from DevOps.com, Security Boulevard and Container Journal, which covered the nominations for DevOps Dozen 2022 awards, the increase in SaaS applications resulting in increased complexity and security risks and Weaveworks’ newest update to its GitOps platform.
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Hi and everyone here the headlines for September 20th? First up a federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting social media on censorship. The law which was passed last year banned social media platforms with more than 50 million monthly users from removing a user or post based on viewpoints.
The law would also require them to report information about content removal. Opponents of the law have stated it would stifle the ability of social media companies to remove graphic content hate speech and dangerous misinformation. The Supreme Court originally placed an injunction on the law as it went through the court system, but now it is expected to go back there for a final verdict.
Next California is suing Amazon as it says it is violating the state's antitrust in unfair competition laws. In a lawsuit filed last week California accused Amazon of stifling competition and engaging in practices to make sellers maintain lower prices on Amazon site compared to other sites. California says that the lawsuit is based on information that was collected over the course of two years involving subpoenas and interviews with Sellers and Amazon's competitors.
The suit says that Merchants that do not comply with Amazon's policy could have their products removed from prominent listings on Amazon. At its core the lawsuit seeks to stop the anti-competitive practices that Amazon part takes in according to California. So we'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
In other news General Motors said it would spend 491 million dollars to upgrade an Indiana plan for production of parts for electric vehicles. GM said it would install two new press lines to a 6,000 square foot plant in Marion, Indiana. The plant currently now.
Employs around 750 people and that employment is expected to remain stable throughout this. This new renovation comes as GM is trying to strengthen its hold in the electric vehicle Market. However, the plant would still be providing parts for its Chevrolet Buick GMC and Cadillac models in addition to parts for EVS.
Next Samsung Electronics has announced that it plans on attaining a hundred percent clean energy by 2050 Samsung is the second biggest energy consumer only behind Walmart. It announced that it aims to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions across this mobile TV and consumer electronics divisions by 2030 and Net Zero carbon emissions across all Global operations by 2050. 8 terawatt hours of electricity for its operations, which is nearly twice the amount of energy consumed by all the households in South Korea's capital.
This being said Samsung is a knowledge. That would be have a harder time converting renewable energy sources at home as it struggles to achieve. The electricity demands needed to keep up with the growing demand for semiconductors.
Next a hacker claiming to be behind Uber's hacking incident last week gain access to Rockstar's games slack server as well as his team working Confluence Wiki Additionally, the hacker also stated that they gained access to Grand Theft Auto 6 source code. For proof the hacker uploaded a file containing 90 videos of the game. Rockstar has since confirmed the hacking incident by saying they suffered a network intrusion over the weekend.
As of right now the full details of the intrusion are slim, but according to some reports the hacker seems to be demanding money for not publishing the source code of the game. com. We have an article announcing that the devops does an awards for 2022 are now open these Awards highlight recognize and honor the outstanding leaders who have made an important contribution to devops community over the past year.
com. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how is the increase in software as a service applications has occurred so as the increase in complexity and security risks. From a recent survey, which focused on SAS usage across Enterprises most organizations reported that security lagged in urgency and priority.
Additionally 60% of the respondents ranked SAS security for their lower and their list of priorities. To learn more about the report and its implications go to Security Boulevard calm. Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at weaveworks update for its gitops platform that enables application development teams to progressively deploy applications.
This new update allows teams to deploy applications in a way that makes it easier to recover if there is an issue. The new update also enables teams to more actively enforce security at multiple points throughout the software lifecycle. com.
And that's today's texturing news recap.
