Amazon’s annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas — where the tech giant reliably announces a host of products heading to Amazon Web Services, its cloud platform — doesn’t kick off officially until next week. But that didn’t stop the tech giant from previewing a few of the highlights, the bulk of which relate to the internet of things (IoT). From…
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Gartner Predictions Reveal How AI Will Change Our World
Gartner research has announced 10 “strategic technology trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next 5 to 10 years.” And the trends include “hyperautomation” — applying advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to tasks “that once required humans,” combining robotic process automation with intelligent business management software to provide “real-time, continuous intelligence about the organization…with a goal…
Security Researcher Gets Access To Thousands of Automatic Pet Feeders By Xiaomi
New submitter arkamax writes: A security researcher based in Russia discovered that her research (article in Russian, Google Translate) into API for a new automatic pet feeder manufactured by Xiaomi resulted in obtaining full control of approximately 10,950 of similar devices across the world. She found ways to access logs of those pet feeders, change their settings, invoke manual feeding or…
Intel Unveils All New Tremont Low Power CPU Architecture
MojoKid writes: Intel took the wraps off a new CPU architecture today, one that is employed in its next-gen Lakefield series CPUs with Foveros chip tech that will power some next-gen Microsoft Surface devices, among others in 2020. Codenamed Tremont, it’s a low-power, 10nm x86 microarchitecture that is the successor to Goldmont Plus, which was is found in current-gen Atom, Pentium…
Ask Slashdot: What Should I Do About My Landlord Forcing Smart Things Into My Home?
New submitter aaronb1138 writes: So my apartment (UDR) pulled a bit of a blitz last Friday (10/11) to install new “Smart” IoT stuff in my home today (10/15) under the umbrella of SmartRent management. According to a CNET article from earlier this year, this seems to be SmartRent’s usual method of attack. UDR is usually pretty miserly, so I suspect the…
Dutch Police Take Down Hornets’ Nest of DDoS Botnets
Dutch police have taken down this week a bulletproof hosting provider that has sheltered tens of IoT botnets that have been responsible for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks around the world, ZDNet reports. From the report: Servers were seized, and two men were arrested yesterday at the offices of KV Solutions BV (KV hereinafter), a so-called bulletproof hosting provider, a…
Amazon Sidewalk Is a New Long-Range Wireless Network For Your IoT Devices
At its annual hardware event in Seattle, Amazon today announced Sidewalk, a new low-bandwidth, long-distance wireless protocol the company is developing to connect all of the IoT devices in and around your house. TechCrunch reports: Amazon argues that Bluetooth and WiFi don’t have enough range, while 5G takes too much power and is too complex. “We came up with something that…
Linux Foundation Exec Believes Edge Computing Will Be More Important Than Cloud Computing
An anonymous reader shares a report: Once upon a time, back when we all had mainframes and then servers in our offices, we had edge computing. Our compute power was literally down the hall. Then, along came the cloud, and all that changed. Computers were hundreds of miles but milliseconds away. Now, with the rise of IoT, 5G, and our never-satisfied…
Researchers Uncover 125 Vulnerabilities Across 13 Routers and NAS Devices
Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) discovered a total of 125 different security vulnerabilities across 13 IoT devices, likely affecting millions of consumers. Help Net Security reports: In nearly all the devices (12 of the 13), ISE achieved its goal of obtaining remote root-level access. The table below shows the types of vulnerabilities that ISE identified in the targets. All 13 of the…
Linux 5.3 Released
“Linux 5.3 has been released,” writes diegocg: This release includes support for AMD Navi GPUs; support for the umwait x86 instructions that let processes wait for short amounts of time without spinning loops; a ‘utilization clamping’ mechanism that is used to boost interactivity on power-asymmetric CPUs used in phones; a new pidfd_open(2) system call that completes the work done to let…