My concern with connected cars is malicious actors performing a mass zero day attack that could either disable cars or turn them into homocidal weapons.

Little known fact.
In the Australian Constitution, NZ is a state of Australia!

Yep sorry. I should stop trying to type on an ipad in bed!
The title should be Trying since 2003, and power obviously should be uW!
Oh slashdot, the ability to edit posts in 2025.

Walmart's been trying to get suppliers to RFID stuff since their 2003 RFID mandate, which demanded suppliers tag pallets and cases by 2005, but s pretty much failed out of the gate due to exorbitant tag costs, unreliable technology, and supplier pushback, resulting in only partial compliance and a scaled-back approach by 2006. They really pushed for UHF EPC backscatter tag standardisation. But UHF is PITA. It can reflect off surfaces, not penetrate to cartons inside pallets with metal and water.

But.. they keep persisting. Interesting to they are trying BT now. Apparently the wiling tags scavenge RF to power their BT transceivers.

Here’s an AI summary.

Walmart’s battery-free Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tags, like Wiliot’s pixels, harvest ambient RF energy (e.g., from Wi-Fi or RFID readers) using a small antenna and efficient rectifier, capturing 2.5-50 W in retail environments to charge a capacitor for brief BLE transmissions that consume ~9 J per packet. Ultra-low-power chips with duty cycling and simplified protocols enable 3-5 mA bursts lasting milliseconds, broadcasting minimal data (e.g., ID or location) over 1-10 meters every few seconds, with Walmart’s strategic placement of BLE gateways and RFID readers ensuring sufficient RF energy for reliable operation in stores and distribution centers.

I've bought EarFun BT Noise Cancelling Earbuds. Cheap, good sound, good battery life.
Only down side is you cant make the case ring to find it.

Oh Jerry..and shame on /. for posting this drivel.

Hands Up who has ever used the the ms App Store. I certainly haven’t and I’ve used ms since Dos.

And this from low UID.
Having no cash gives the govt ultimate control over non personing you and making you subject to global IT systems always working.

Germany is deindustrialising so fast, they will only need 3 hamsters in a spinning wheel by 2030.

The key phrase is subassemblies are still produced in China.
So Cameras, Screens, Touch Screen, Speakers, Glass, maybe even the PCBs themselves... all still made in China.
India is just a screw bits together country to get around tariffs.

The one browser I never install because of history as being spyware.

Ok, I’m getting old.
I’ve noticed the decay of logical thought process from politicians especially over the last 10 years.
For example, in Victoria Australia, the state government just paid a small fortune to place dozens of Machete amnesty bins around the city. I honestly thought it was an AI joke, yet they can’t afford to replace rural fire trucks.
As an engineer, it’s infuriating how ideology increasingly rules over logical thought process, and in the case of this article, complete nonsense makes its way into the public discourse.

For my free chat GPT in Oz subsidised by the American working poor!

Normally I read the reviews of any movie, but last Friday night I watched this in our little home cinema with my wife without checking.
First, it helps if you have ADD to watch this as the social media interaction is fast and furious. It’s really an ode to how over connected we are.
It was full of product placements for Amazon and Microsoft. I’m not sure if any scene had more than one actor on a screen at a time. It was like a work from home acting experience. The military scenes were library footage. The focus of IceCube on his kids was an annoying plot device, so we skipped a lot of those bits.
The metaphor of the aliens wanting suck up our data to destroy us was ironic given AI and were we heading.
Eva was looking good for her age and we did make it to the end.
I give it 3/10.