Pavel Jelic Another working week is successfully behind us and now two more days off in the form of the weekend. Even before you go to bed so that you can go to the water as soon as possible, or start sunbathing, read our IT summary, in which we inform you every day about everything that happened in the world of IT. Today we take a look at another Facebook debacle that allegedly improperly stored users' biometric data, then we look at how NASA lost communication with its rocket that launched yesterday, and finally we talk more about how nVidia could buy Arm. So let's get straight to the point.
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Facebook collects users' biometric data
The company Facebook, which also includes other social networks of the same name, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, probably still doesn't want to learn its lesson. After all the scandals that have happened in the past, more and more problems and troubles are constantly appearing, often related to the unauthorized handling of user data. If you follow these cases from Facebook with at least one eye, then you certainly did not miss the information last year that Facebook is supposed to collect biometric data of users, namely their faces. According to Facebook, faces are collected for the sole purpose of tagging users in photos that users post.
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Of course, Facebook defends itself by saying that this is a security feature. If someone adds a photo with your face on Facebook and doesn't tag you in it, you will receive a notification about this fact. You can thus easily check whether the added photo is not offensive in any way, and whether it was accidentally added without your consent. However, similar storage of biometric data is prohibited in Texas, specifically in Illinois. At the moment, this whole situation is being investigated and gradually more and more people, together with the media, are becoming interested in it. We'll see if this will be another scandal that Facebook will cover with a hefty fine, or if this whole situation will end in something more serious... which, let's face it, is very unlikely. Money always solves all problems.
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Vratislav Holub NASA has lost contact with its Mars-bound rocket
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA for short, sent its own rocket to Mars yesterday, dubbed the Atlantis V-541. The mission of this rocket is clear – to deliver another rover, the fifth in a row, to the surface of the red planet so that NASA can obtain even more information about the fourth planet of our solar system. The fifth rover that NASA decided to send to the red planet was named Perseverance. The Atlantis V-541 rocket launched without the slightest problem, but unfortunately, after two hours, there was a complete loss of signal and the connection was interrupted. It was the interruption of the signal that could very quickly end this mission and mark it as a failure. However, the engineers from NASA were lucky, because after some time the connection was established again, and even NASA now reports that the signal is above average and of very high quality. So let's hope there are no further complications with this mission, and that the "labor pains" were the only pains the engineers at NASA will have to deal with on this mission.
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nVidia is seriously interested in buying Arm
In one of the past summaries, we informed you that Arm was about to be sold. This company is currently owned by the SoftBank conglomerate, and it was their CEO who decided that ownership of Arm was not beneficial for the future. After buying out Arm Holdings, the company was expected to be profitable, thanks to the production of all kinds of custom chips and processors. Unfortunately, it turned out that this step was not completely ideal - but it cannot be considered completely bad. Since the buyout, Arm has not been in trouble, but it is neither profitable nor unprofitable, and is somehow simply "surviving". This is the main reason for the aforementioned sale.
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After the announcement of the sale, analysts assumed that Apple could go after Arm, but the latter denied any interest. Conversely, nVidia, which has been producing graphics cards for several years, has shown interest in Arm. According to available information, nVidia is very interested in Arm. The strange thing is that nVidia is practically the only company that has expressed interest in Arm. Therefore, nothing should prevent the buyout, unless of course some "power higher" enters the whole process. So, most likely, we will soon provide you with information about the acquisition of the mentioned company. After that, it will be up to nVidia to work with its new addition - hopefully this is the right move and nVidia will not repeat the bad steps it made last year.
