Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony has too much Tech News today for just an entry in Tuesday's Links. Daily News Stuff 26 July 2025: Spill Edition
How are things in the world of AI?
Meanwhile over at Amazon, "security first" means about as much as "talent first" did with VShojo. (Tom's Hardware)
Hackers were able to inject a persistent vulnerability into an Amazon AI coding tool by, uh, asking it to do it for them.
Also, anyone who buys an exercise bike or a treadmill that has an app, deserves to get exactly what they got.
Echelon home gym equipment can no longer be used without a monthly subscription, an internet connection, and probably government-issued photo ID stored on a public server. (Ars Technica)
So you bought a piece of exercise equipment that didn't require a monthly payment, but now it does require a monthly subscription. Congress or the FTC really needs to fix that bait and switch.
Click the link at the top for info on the Tea app kerfuffle. (Every user of Tea has had their government ID published to the net), and Britain's decent into technological dystopia, where you have no free speech, and are tracked by the best tech they can muster.
1984.0.0.1.
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