Techstrong News Recap – September 26, 2022
On Sept. 26, William Willis covered a lawsuit against Meta that accuses the company of tracking users on iOS using a loophole in Apple’s privacy update, Tesla’s recall of over one million of its cars and Hertz’s plan to purchase 175,000 electric vehicles. He also talked about France’s plan to develop more renewable energy and the live streaming platform Twitch’s announcement that they will ban gambling content. Finally, he previewed articles from Security Boulevard, DevOps.com and Container Journal, which covered a survey of IT security leaders on cyberattacks, The CTO of Techstrong Group’s reflections on his journey with DevOps and Docker’s plan to integrate a free SBOM tool.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for September 26th. First up Facebook users are suing meta by accusing them of tracking on iOS through a loophole and Apple's privacy update. According to the lawsuit meta avoided Apple's new restrictions through Facebook's in-app browser, which opens links through the app itself.
These claims are based on a recent report that raised concerns or a Facebook and Instagrams in app browsers for tracking data. Apple released its major privacy update in April of last year and it struck a blow to social media companies that would track your user Behavior through for advertising purposes. In regards to this lawsuit, though meta has stated that the allegations were without Merit and that it would defend itself against it.
Next Tesla announced the recall for over 1 million of its cars the primary reason being problems with its automatic windows. According to Regulators the windows may not react accordingly after detecting an obstruction. This being said Tesla says that will fix this problem with the software update not a physical recall itself.
The recall covers all four of his car models in Tesla stated that it is not aware of any injuries or crashes related to the recall. While we were on the subject of cars, the rental car company hurts has announced that it plans to order 175,000 EVS from General Motors over the next five years. This GM order is the latest deal hurts.
His maid in order to boost its EV lineup. In the past hurts the sign deals with other EV makers and it plans to have 25% of its Fleet be electric by the end of 2024. In the past automakers haven't shown off deals with rental car companies since they sell these cars that a discount but the Fanfare of this deal could be a good sign for the electric vehicles industry.
In other news Francis called for a massive acceleration of renewable energy development the plan would include offshore wind farms and solar power and a move to make Francis energy policies more similar to that of its European Neighbors. With the war in Ukraine the supply of Russia's Chief natural gas has been limited and is Stoke fears of electricity shortages for France and other European countries. France's new strategy will be a long-term response to this energy crisis where it hopes to increase its renewable energy sources to level similar in surrounding European countries.
Zooming out Francis currently 17th in the EU for renewable energy sources. Next up the live streaming service twitch has announced that they will ban gambling content. This announcement comes with several twitch streamers threatened to boycott the platform after one streamer reportedly misled people into giving him $200,000 to gamble with twitch hopes that this with this new band which will go into place on October 18th will help provide consumer protection and shield its Community from potential Harms.
On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at a survey of it Security leaders on cyber attacks keep your security survey found several troubling results including how many of the respondents do not report attacks. And that many do not invest in the cyber security tools needed to protect organizations. com.
We have an article where Mitch Ashley CTO of texture on group reflects on several of his most significant influences on his journey in devops. He takes a look at several of the conferences books and tools that have shaped his path. com.
Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at Dockers plan to embed the ability to dynamically generate a software bill of materials or s-bomb using the docker build command. Docker says that when it comes to building Cloud native applications, the current s-bomb tools can't keep up with the pace of Developers. Docker wants to address this problem by providing more visibility into the components that are used to construct applications to learn more about docker's plan to integrate a free s-bomb tool go to container Journal.
And that's today's text wrong news recap.





