Note that while it notes that over 98% of "discoveries" seem to not be exploited, it also notes this is the rate for the pre-AI world as well.

Which is consistent with my experience with security "findings", very poor signal to noise ratio. At least in my time with the security industry, it's always hard to know whether to take something seriously, as they keep coming up with duds and claim victory. They tend to be eternally in "the sky is falling" mode, and sometimes it is very much falling, but most of the time it is nothing of consequence.

It's a pretty nice position because generally it's a bad move to call it out because then you would be branded as "not taking security seriously" if you express doubt over the potential consequences of a "security" finding.

Nothing in the summary really conveys why this raises to the level of news. Digging in it doesn't really have consequences for the users in the short term.

Plausibly a good change, but a change among countless other good changes that pass without notice.

Well, I never promised as good as google, just saying that so long as android auto is an option, then nothing lost by the built in map going to Apple.

They could, but that runs counter to what they want.

They want to kill resale and while they are at it, take control of whether you can play your game as purchased a few years ago, or make you have to buy a remaster, or just not be able to play them and play something new they can get revenue for instead.

They have sorted out that the vast vast majority of their user base will run games on whatever terms the console picks. Alienating the minority is worth it to assert that much control over the experiences of the majority.

So there's not any detail on whether this means iOS will be running or if this 'MapKit' supports another platform.

Apple did go out of their way to say *Carplay* would be supported, but no one has mentioned whether android auto will be supported.

This seems like a broadly fine concept, so long as they didn't toss Android Auto support to get this partnership with Apple going. The built in nav was, at it's best, never better than google maps and, I presume, Apple.

So that's describing the sane way to go. Problem is security teams aren't "sane".

For example, security team demands we account for CVEs, and we reply we use RedHat so RHSAs are the better curated source and here's all the information.

Nope, they don't "trust" vendors and we should independently account for CVEs. To the extent RHSAs cite CVEs, ok, but they don't speak to *every* CVE (notably, a lot of Android specific CVEs that don't apply to the RHEL builds), and we aren't allowed to just take RedHat's word for it that they cover the CVEs...

And so many CVEs are "won't fix" and that drives the security team to great anger despite RedHat making pretty reasonable calls in every single one of these I've ever had to investigate...

Think the root is that folks see GenAI as their ticket to unskilled participation in a very highly paid industry.

However things go, that will not be the outcome, and I at least look forward to people being disinterested when it doesn't work that way (either they don't get to participate, or the industry won't be a high pay one anymore).

Problem is that ultimately, the CVEs tend to lose meaning. The relative risk of a CVE becomes impossibly diluted because most of them aren't of practical security consequence. It's a lot of work to keep up the charade that CVEs are something that need to be handled as "more than bugs" and that you can somehow get a better consistent experience by avoiding bugfixes but still get CVEs to maintain security..

Very critical things have CVEs that are really important, but the CVE facet of it does not really set off alarm bells since they've been overused. We instead create "brands" for the "actually important" vulnerabilities.

Maybe a good tool for entities like linux distributions to start their advisories, but it's a complete disaster for end-users to think they should be managing CVEs directly, which is precisely what the security community frequently demands. Also precisely why this is vaguely controversial.

Evidently they do at least have a rationale for that.

Instead of LIDAR in every car, they push LIDAR maps that they maintain by regularly driving the supported roads.

Of course, a LIDAR unit in the car would bring it back to a one-time purchase making sense, but initially that was too expensive, and now... well... they like the recurring revenue....

GM has a 'fix' for that:
https://news.dealershipguy.com...

Why make infotainment systems better, when you can just make phone integration worse?

I can't speak to it as I don't have a GM car, but do note they removed Android Auto and Apple Carplay from many of their vehicles, precisely to drive people to buy OnStar to have the big driving friendly displays be able to do the things many folks just started using their phone for when CarPlay/Android auto became a thing.

This is why they removed Android Auto and Apple Carplay from their vehicles. They are betting people are so loyal to GM that they'll pay for OnStar instead of just using their phone apps on the big screens like everyone else does.

Emboldened by the fact that Tesla similarly dismisses that feature and people bought Tesla's just fine.

Seems to be working based on the numbers, and the fact that someone at work who is a supreme fan of GM who has always just bought GM is disappointed that his next car won't work with his phone the way he likes, but doesn't see giving any other vendor a shot as a viable option. They do have some folks with crazy blind brand loyalty.

Most maddening for open source projects is the number of false positives exacerbated by multiple people trying to 'help' by running effectively the same security audit as a bunch of other people have done and trying to open issues that are duplicate...

Huge pain in the ass dealing with contributions from people who don't understand enough to analyze their LLMs "findings" and just pass them through "in case they are helpful".

Might be nice once the fad of "everyone contribute by running duplicate reviews" subsides though.

Note that this isn't even new to AI, the kernel has always been a flood of CVEs. The AI spotlight puts a bigger spotlight on it, but it has been a mess.

The real problem is that the average security team is mismanaged and forced to use terrible tools that report on yet fail to reconcile the status of the CVEs on behalf of the user and instead drives the team to have to figure out how to take care of it themselves.

Some twisted security mindset of going direct with CVEs as 'the most thorough vendor neutral approach' without instead leveraging distribution security advisories. So you end up with a security tool claiming you have thousands of security issues on an up-to-the-minute patched instance of the latest enterprise linux distribution because they backport and tools don't understand the version numbers.

In the industry, so many security teams mandating CVE management software that is absolutely stupid and pushes off all the hard bits to the user.

It sees 6.12.0-211.34.1.el10_2... Well... none of that makes sense so it just assumes that it's just plain 6.12.0 and demands the user reconcile the reality. Now the security vendor *could* maybe integrate with the major linux distributions advisories... But no, more CVEs is better, when you demo that your product finds hundreds of CVEs, that just proves it is being thorough as far as upper management is concerned.

They offer up sound guidance here, skip direct CVE management and lean on your distributor. If you are doing CVEs direct, at *least* use the patched files to cross-reference against your build to see if it even in theory could matter. However the problem is the business of the security industry doesn't prioritize those, and so we have stupid tools inflicted on people, and pushing back against those tools carries a stink of "must not care about security then".