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Consumers led by Susan Lenehan and Jodi Brust filed a class action complaint in the Western District of Washington on Monday against Amazon.com, Inc. claiming that it wiretapped their Amazon Alexa Devices, leading to violations of federal and state laws.
The complaint explained that an Alexa device, or its affiliated products, are designed to “record the user’s verbal communication” after a trigger word is used. The device then sends the information to Amazon’s servers “which interprets and processes the communication, receives the relevant information, and the Alexa Device responds accordingly to the user.”
06:15 | Nvidia Changing Up Silicon Die Names
It seems Nvidia is carving new names into its GPUs underneath the hood, as evidenced by HardwareLuxx member “iso0,” who purchased a GeForce RTX 3090 and disassembled it to install a water block. In the process of removing the cooler and shroud, the user discovered that the previous GA102-250-KD-A1 marking had been crossed out, and a newly etched GA102-300-A1 was underneath it.
While the reasoning for this isn’t presently clear, it seems the naming of Nvidia’s GPUs is being shuffled internally on account of the unreleased RTX 3080 Ti. It seems the RTX 3080 Ti may use some form of the GA102-250 die, or a rumored GA102-225 die. For now, however, it seems that RTX 3090 SKUs will now be shipping with the newly christened GA102-300 naming.
A Florida lawsuit accusing Intel of unlawful interception of electronic communication – aka wiretapping – claims the company used the software to capture mouse movements and clicks, data input into the website, content viewed on the website, dates and times of visits, and how the plaintiffs generally interacted with the tech giant’s site.
The class-action suit is based on the 2020 Florida Security of Communications Act, which makes it a crime to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication without all of the parties prior consent.
The news was first reported by The Register.
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