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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

It’s a cellular IoT device that can be embedded into almost any hardware and connect to the internet without relying on WiFi. The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

. “Today, automakers are having a hard time getting their customers to buy informatics systems because they only can do 10% of what a mobile phone can do,” said Rudi Streif, who leads the Automotive Grade Linux workgroup for the Linux Foundation. With Google Maps, Tesla drivers can also locate recharging locations.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

.” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals.

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The Hacker Mind: Hackers Wanted: Filling the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

ForAllSecure

So I started attending Black Hat, Def Con, and after many years wrote my own book on the insecurity of internet of things devices. I worked in automotive and now I want to get into InfoSec. So do your research, go online, spend a number of days looking up nonprofit organizations, there are a lot of them out there with the same mission.