The ice cream machine hack sued McDonald's for $900 million
Since 2019, small startup Kytch has worked to invent and sell a phone-sized tool that is installed inside McDonald's ice cream machines that intercepts the ice cream machine's internal communications and sends them to the web or smartphone interface to help remotely monitor and eliminate many of the flaws prevalent inside the ice cream machine. Many McDonald's operators install this device. McDonald's sent an email to the operators asking them to immediately remove the device from the ice cream machine, saying that the device not only violated the ice cream machine's warranty, intercepted their confidential information, but also posed a security threat, and advertised a new ice cream machine with similar functions to the device. After Kytch's business was shut down, it filed a legal action against McDonald's alleging false advertising and infringing interference with its contracts with customers, seeking no less than $900 million in damages.
Lao Wang commented: This thing is more interesting, who is right?
Red Hat is developing an RHEL-based in-vehicle Linux distribution
Today, the CentOS Automotive SIG announced a new release for automotive AutoSD, a binary distribution that will serve as a public preview of Red Hat's upcoming in-vehicle operating system. Like CentOS Stream, which is upstream of RHEL, it is upstream of Red Hat's automotive distribution. AutoSD will have a dedicated kernel instead of centOS Stream's. Developers can join the Automotive SIG and develop around automotive hardware, and enabling new hardware in the SIG does not mean that it automatically becomes part of the Red Hat Automotive Distribution.
Lao Wang comments: Automotive Linux has not developed well in recent years, but with more functional requirements for in-vehicle systems, a more powerful operating system market is obviously growing.
Steam Deck can install Windows systems, but the driver is not enough
Steam Deck is an x86 PC on hardware, while the pre-installed Steam OS is based on Arch Linux. Due to the lack of native Games on Linux, although Proton technology can be used to run Windows games, there are still people who want to run Windows games natively. Steam Deck has boot boot open by default, so you can boot to the Windows installation USB flash drive to install it. However, at present, although it can be smoothly installed and entered the desktop, it lacks a large number of important drivers such as graphics cards, Wi-Fi, and wired networks.
Lao Wang comments: If it is to create a Linux driver for Steam Deck, I think the community may have already started, and Windows users do not have this habit, obviously users can only wait for Valve.