The Right to Tinker

Here is an interesting New York Times article on the right to tinker with automotive software.<p>
And here is the Web site of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, with provides a link to Andrew Appel's Freedom to Tinker blog.

More Vehicle Hacks

Wired reports here on two new vehicle hacks, one affecting VW group keys and another affecting other car makes.

Monitor Hacking

Extremetech reports here on a presentation at DEFCON demonstrating how monitors can be hacked to, for example, change the pixels on the display.

Basis Peak Recall

Intel reports here that they are recalling all Basis Peak recall due to overheating of a small number of watches.  A few users reported burns due to watch overheating.

Tesla Autopilot Update

The Guardian reports here on the Tesla Autopilot, which was just involved in its first fatal crash.

More on legacy systems

This article from CNN describes the 8" floppy disks (note even 5.25" !!!) used in the control of U. S. nuclear missiles.

Legacy Systems

Extremetech reports here on the Compaq laptop required to service one of the early McLaren supercars.  It seems they relied on a proprietary hardware interfce.