This Week's News - IoT

February 2, 2024

A bi-weekly newsletter on IoT with a bent towards cybersecurity. If you find this interesting, I’d really appreciate it if you could share the love and pass it on to others who might enjoy it as well! 

• Yet another serious cybersecurity threat to critical infrastructure revealed  Exclusive: US disabled Chinese hacking network targeting critical infrastructure (Reuters)
• A reminder that the GDPR also applies to employee data, something that is relevant to industrial IoT  Amazon Fined in France Over Alleged Employee Surveillance (Wall Street Journal $)
• “As data multiplies, enterprises are recognizing that it’s preferable to process that data at the edge for real-time decision making, rather than the battle latency and congestion issues associated with routing that data back to cloud or on-premises data centers”  AI, 5G and IoT spur edge data centers (Network World)
• Reminder that the industry is still preparing for the time when quantum computing is expected to allow current encryption to be broken  Quantum-secure private 5G testbed opens in UK (RCR Wireless)
• Wi-Fi HaLow has been around since 2017 but is now getting a push  Six verticals for Wi-Fi HaLow – as Wi-Fi crowd preps new low-power IoT contender (RCR News)
• Some IoT moves away from the Google ecosystem Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next (The Register)Philips is ditching Google TV, but not on its OLEDs (What Hi-Fi?)

Miscellaneous

• Previously something like this happened with Microsoft’s Tay chatbot  DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry (The Register)
• More interesting work in developing IoT devices that don’t need batteries  Sound-powered sensors could make waves, reduce battery waste (Fierce Electronics)

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