Hashtag Trends Nov 28 – Tesla self-driving test fails. Twitter breach worsens.Beats WhatsApp record for sale

A recent safety test revealed that Tesla’s fully self-driving feature crashed into a child in a stroller. His Twitter breach last year was far more serious than first reported, with 500 million WhatsApp records compromised and up for sale.

Welcome to hashtag trending. This is your host, Samira Bulsara, on Monday, November 28th.

latest safety test by dawn project A self-driving Tesla crashed into a child mannequin in a stroller. Testing was conducted in October at a public parking lot in Santa Barbara, Calif., using the latest version of Tesla fully self-driving beta software available at the time of testing. In tests, the self-driving feature was found to drive down the stroller in the parking lot multiple times. Testing also found that the Tesla Full Self-Driving repeatedly crashed into a child mannequin in a stroller on the street. With each run, the car’s internal cameras showed viewers that fully autonomous driving was clearly involved. The flashlight also showed that the accelerator pedal was not pressed during the safety test.

The massive Twitter data breach in 2021, which exposed more than 5 million phone numbers and email addresses, appears to be much more serious than originally reported.according to 9to5mac, there is evidence that the same security vulnerability was exploited by multiple bad actors, and the hacked data is sold on the dark web by several sources. Only one hacker could. When the first vulnerability was reported in January, Twitter acknowledged it existed and then patched it, but said nothing about who would exploit it. The data includes his Twitter users in the UK, nearly all his EU member states, and some in the US.

Social media networks are a big target these days. According to a hacking forum post, nearly 500 million of his WhatsApp records have been compromised and are for sale. tech radarA forum post claims to sell the latest 2022 database of 487 million mobile numbers used by WhatsApp, including data from 84 countries. It is said that more than 32 million of the leaked records came from users in the US and his 11 million users in the UK. Other countries affected include Egypt, France and Italy. TechRadar added that nearly a quarter of WhatsApp’s estimated 2 billion monthly active users may be at risk.

Within the European Union, airlines are currently Install the latest 5G technology On board, allow passengers to use their smartphones and other connected devices during the flight. This coverage is made possible by equipping aircraft with what are called “picocells”. Through its network station, phone calls, text messages, and data traffic can be sent to mobile his networks on the ground through satellite networks.

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