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Mon. 08/16 – NHTSA Investigating Tesla’s Autopilot

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Now it’s T-Mobile investigating a data breach that may or may not affect more than 100 million people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Tesla’s Autopilot. Everybody’s building undersea cables all at once. And new to me at least is the technology that can pull drinking water right from the hot, humid summer air. Sponsors: Streak.com/techmeme Voices.com Links: T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach (Motherboard) US probing Autopilot problems on 765,000 Tesla vehicles (Associated Press) Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data ‘Back Door’ in Pakistan Project (WSJ) Facebook, Amazon seek U.S. approval to operate undersea data cable (Reuters) This Solar Hydropanel Can Pull 10 Liters of Drinking Water Per Day Out of the Air (Brighter) Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, August 16th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.0

Now it's T-Mobile investigating a data breach that may or may not affect more than a hundred

0:14.3

million people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is

0:17.8

investigating Tesla's autopilot, everybody's building undersea cables all at once,

0:22.1

and new to me at least is the technology that can Everybody's building undersea cables all at once,

0:22.6

and new to me at least, is the technology

0:24.7

that can pull drinking water right from the hot, humid summer air.

0:28.8

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:33.6

T-Mobile is investigating claims that hackers stole data from its servers, including phone numbers,

0:40.2

names, social security numbers, and driver's license info,

0:44.0

related to more than potentially 100 million people.

0:47.0

Quoting motherboard.

0:49.0

T-Mobile says it is investigating a forum post claiming

0:52.0

to be selling a mountain of personal data.

0:54.8

The forum post itself doesn't mention T-Mobile, but the seller told motherboard, they have

0:58.8

obtained data related to over 100 million people and that the data came from T-Mobile servers.

1:04.4

The data includes social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses,

1:08.0

unique IMI numbers, and driver's license information the seller said.

1:13.0

Motherboard has seen samples of the data and confirmed they contain accurate information on

1:16.4

T-Mobile customers.

1:17.5

Quote, T-Mobile USA, full customer info.

1:20.7

The seller told motherboard in an online chat. The seller said they compromise multiple

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