– Autonomous parking in Detroit. In September, Bosch, Ford and the American real estate agent Bedrock will start a pilot project of autonomous indoor parking, in the cradle of the American automobile industry, Detroit. Bosch-developed lidar (distance measurement by light) sensors installed in the hallways will guide Ford’s 2020 Escape autonomous models to and from their location. The objective of the experiment is to collect data to improve this type of device which will adapt to existing car parks. Without the presence of human drivers, these could accommodate up to 20% more vehicles.
– Facebook retaliated by Apple. An update to the social network’s mobile application was refused by Apple. In question, the firm of Mark Zuckerberg displayed during an in-app purchase this little sentence, “Apple takes 30% commission on this purchase”. Conversely, another sentence could be written “Facebook does not take any commission on this purchase”. The Cupertino company considered that this update contained irrelevant information and thus violated the application development code on the App Store.
– Cnil warns about flaws in Pulse Secure. Rather rare phenomenon, the regulator of personal data issued a warning on security breaches in the VPN tool, Pulse Secure. She indicates that she was recently informed that a person who exploited a vulnerability, present in non-updated versions of products, posted on a specialized forum in early August confidential information concerning more than 900 companies around the world. . This data would include among other things the IP addresses of vulnerable servers, private keys, a list of users as well as connection information, usernames and passwords, in clear. The CNIL asks companies using VPN to quickly update the solution.
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