2025-10-23
If your sleep is disrupted because... you purchased a bed with a dependency on vendor's proprietary cloud services hosted in AWS for you to sleep in the bed, I don't even know what to say to that.
The Verge
Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage
Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions while while Amazon's servers were down.
2024-12-31
It's not a “security breach” that's the problem. Why the hell is a car logging and recording your GPS location and sending it up to some AWS cloud? Did car owners choose this? Did they give true consent to it? The enshittification is fundamentally the problem, not a “breach”.
Carscoops
Sensitive data of over 800K VW Group EV customers, including GPS coordinates, was exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before being reported
The sensitive information of VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV owners was left exposed on an unprotected and misconfigured cloud storage system for months
2023-09-29
Some things I don't like: Ethernet and USB ports have swapped places *again* breaking compatibility with cases and mechanical integrations. No compatibility with existing PoE HAT hardware. Moving the CSI / DSI connectors also has issues with case compatibility.
The Verge
Raspberry Pi 5 launches with a 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 chip, up to 8GB of RAM, two 4K HDMI ports with HDR, available in October for $60 for a 4GB model
The Raspberry Pi 5 has an entirely new image processing pipeline with improved image quality, and of course makes use of libcamera to expose this new functionality. X: Luke Weston ...