🔵 Tech Outage Madness: The Blue Screen Effect

🔵 Tech Outage Madness: The Blue Screen Effect

• A faulty update in CrowdStrike's popular "Falcon Sensor" software caused widespread computer crashes, affecting airlines, banks, and government systems worldwide.

• The glitch forced manual fixes on millions of devices, highlighting the vulnerability of interconnected global tech infrastructure.

• Experts suggest the update may have skipped crucial quality checks, raising questions about cybersecurity practices in critical software deployment.

🤖 Google + Ray-Ban = AI Glasses Magic

• Google is talking with Ray-Ban's parent company to create smart glasses with AI, aiming to integrate their Gemini AI assistant into the eyewear.

• Google is partnering with known brands instead of making its own glasses, adopting an Android OEM model to leverage established market presence.

• The new glasses will have a microphone, speaker, and camera but no display for now, supporting multimodal capabilities demonstrated in previous prototypes.

🔄 Blue Screen Fix Get Ready to Reboot

• Scientists have created a new artificial foot that closely mimics natural human movement.

• This prosthetic foot uses special springs and a flexible toe joint to copy how real feet work.

• The design could help people with lower limb amputations walk more naturally and comfortably.

🐰 Rabbit R1 Was Saving Your Chats, But Not Anymore

• Rabbit's R1 AI assistant was secretly storing user chats with no way to delete them, raising privacy concerns for users who lost or sold their devices.

• Rabbit has responded by adding a factory reset option, storing less data, and preventing the reading of pairing data from the device to enhance security.

• A software update to fix these issues will be automatically downloaded and installed, ensuring users’ data is now more secure.

🕵️ Chrome Asks “Why?” Before Risky Downloads

• Chrome will soon display full-page warnings for potentially risky downloads, asking users to provide a reason for downloading such files, which could confuse some users.

• Google’s Safe Browsing technology will scan files in real-time, blocking those deemed dangerous and offering users options to delete, understand, or proceed with the download.

• This new approach aims to enhance security but may add complexity to the download process, raising concerns about privacy and user experience.