Tech Brew Ride Home Tue. 04/30 – Underbaked Hardware Releases
Apr 30, 2024
The FCC has hit major telecoms with hefty fines for mishandling location data, raising eyebrows on privacy issues. Meanwhile, the EU probes Meta over misinformation, highlighting ongoing regulatory challenges. GitHub introduces its AI-powered Copilot Workspace, promising to revolutionize coding collaboration. However, critics slam the new Rabbit R1 hardware for its unfinished design, questioning the trend of underbaked tech releases. Plus, Peacock plans another price hike ahead of the Paris Olympics—will customers go along?
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FCC Fines Telecoms
- The FCC fined major telecom companies millions for sharing location data without consent.
- The carriers allegedly sold data to aggregators who resold it to third-party services.
EU's DMA/DSA Enforcement
- The EU's DMA/DSA allows for frequent, targeted enforcement actions.
- This suggests potential weekly actions against tech companies for various issues.
AWS S3 Bucket Costs
- A developer's empty AWS S3 bucket incurred huge costs due to a popular tool's default settings.
- The tool used the same bucket name, leading to millions of put requests.