Techstrong News Recap – October 18, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for October 18th. First up workers of an Apple store in Oklahoma City have voted to unionize. This will be the second Apple Store in the US to unionize the first of which was the store in Maryland that voted back in June.

The labor board has said that the vote can be objected within five days. But then Apple must begin bargaining a good faith with the Union after that. This signals another win for the labor movement, which is gain traction at Big tech companies in recent years in large part due to the pandemic.

Next a data breach from 2018 is putting the global fast fashion brand Xian in the spotlight. 9 million dollars by the New York attorney general for failing to handle a cybersecurity attack that resulted in the theft of 39 million she in account credentials According to the attorney general The Firm failed to tell a majority of the 39 million people affected that their logins were stolen. She and his stated that the company is stepping up at security.

But this goes to show that the impact of cybersecurity attacks can have on any Market including fast fashion. In other news Google is expanding its real-world tests of its project Star Line program to include offices of several partners. These prototypes will be available for regular testing started later this year.

For a refresher project Starline is a video calling booth that uses 3D imagery cameras in-depth sensors to create a light field display for a holographic video chat platform. Until now the calling booths were only available in Google's offices, but they are rolling it out to offices such as Salesforce. We work and T-Mobile.

Google says this Early Access program will allow them to gain valuable feedback about how this technology could be used in the real world. Next up meta has announced a new update to its metaverse. legs meta's Horizon world's avatars will soon be given legs and while it doesn't seem like much legs are apparently Hard to incorporate in VR and most other virtual reality systems don't have legs either.

One of the reasons are that legs is difficult to render because they're often obscured from view such as if they're under a table preventing the headset from seeing them directly. However, as we see technology develop tools such as AI are better able to track and predict where legs and other body parts move. A Security Boulevard.

We have an article looking at some of the community's reactions to the announcement. That Linux is Wi-Fi code is Strife with bugs. The code could be exploited by being near an attacker and what's worse is that they have been there for more than three years.

com. com. We've an article looking at Dell's launch of its project Frontier initiative that promises to make deploying at the edge simpler.

Project Frontier will create an integrated Edge Computing platform for vertical industry segments with the goal of helping customers simplify optimize and scale their Edge applications. com. Finally on container Journal we have an article on how Circle CI released a container edition of itself hosted Runners software to make it easier for devops teams to deploy on-premise additions of its namesake ci/cd platform.

The self-hosted runner is designed to eliminate the friction when it comes to deploying a ci/cd platform. com. And that's today's texturing news recap.