Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep
and it wasn't the Wi-Fi Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider : Meta's CTO: We'd ‘love’ iMessage on Ray-Ban glasses, but Apple won't allow it David Heaney / UploadVR : Meta Explains Why Its Connect Live...
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest: Amazon Echo speakers, Samsung and Sony smart TVs, Xiaomi Mi9, others hacked; Facebook Portal and Google Nest not attempted
Amazon Echo, Samsung and Sony smart TVs fall on first day of Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest. Tweets: @campuscodi Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Facebook Portal survives Pwn2Own hacking co...
Researchers show how malicious voice apps for Alexa or Google Home eavesdrop on users, as Amazon and Google take a lax approach to vetting the platforms
Exclusive: Amazon, Google fail to address security loopholes in Alexa and Home devices more than a year after first reports.
Google admits one of its language reviewers leaked confidential Dutch audio data and says it is investigating the issue
one of them leaked recordings Michael Simon / PCWorld : Google defends ‘critical’ Assistant language experts who listen to and transcribe your recordings Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo : Google Very Angry...
Investigation shows Google Home and Alexa struggle to understand Indian, Chinese, and Spanish accents compared to accents from across America
THE ACCENT GAP — We tested Amazon's Alexa and Google's Home to see how people with accents are getting left behind in the smart-speaker revolution. Tweets: @drewharwell , @geoffreyfowler , @drewharw...
How DNS rebinding attacks can be used to discover and communicate with devices on local networks, including Google Home, RokuTV, and Sonos WiFi speakers
Brannon Dorsey :
Privacy leak found in Google Home and Chromecast that would let a malicious site find a user's precise location from Wi-Fi info; Google to fix leak within weeks
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
An in-depth look at recent challenges to Google's search reputation, from fake news sites in results, to disturbing answers from Google Home
The past few months have been bad for Google's search reputation. Long considered the “gold standard” in search, Google has seen its search results questioned as never before. Tweets: @randfish . Tha...
Google's featured snippets, presented as the “one true answer” in search and by Google Home, sometimes give false information from untrustworthy sources
The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad.