https://news.auravision.co/ What the connected world is doing with your data — tracked as it breaks. en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:57:50 GMT https://news.auravision.co/car-is-spying/ https://news.auravision.co/car-is-spying/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:57:50 GMT SECURITY BRIEF A Northeastern/Consumer Reports study found nearly all 19 car brands share driver data — GPS per trip, braking, in-cabin camera. The FTC found GM sold geolocation from millions of cars. The thing you drive is a data broker on wheels. https://news.auravision.co/voice-goes-to-cloud/ https://news.auravision.co/voice-goes-to-cloud/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:54:25 GMT SECURITY BRIEF Amazon disabled the Echo setting that kept voice on-device; Alexa+ now forces every recording to the cloud, kept indefinitely by default. When privacy is a button the vendor can delete, it was never yours. Aura has no cloud path at all. https://news.auravision.co/iot-wifi-leak/ https://news.auravision.co/iot-wifi-leak/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:48:52 GMT SECURITY BRIEF An unprotected IoT database exposed ~2.7B records: WiFi names, WiFi passwords, IPs, device IDs. The thing meant to secure your home handed over the keys. Never connect what you care about to the internet. https://news.auravision.co/connected-coffee/ https://news.auravision.co/connected-coffee/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:17:46 GMT SECURITY BRIEF A connected Keurig sent ~1TB of data in 10 days; a Lavazza wanted your contacts. ~820k IoT devices are attacked daily. Never connect what you care about to the internet. https://brief.auravision.co/ https://brief.auravision.co/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT FIELD REPORT ~300 French supermarkets had their internet-connected fridges remotely defrosted — 122°F for six hours. Never connect what you can't afford to lose. https://auravision.co/field-report/the-breach/ https://auravision.co/field-report/the-breach/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT FIELD REPORT Denmark's entire population was exposed through one stolen login. The only database that can't leak is the one you never build. https://auravision.co/field-report/the-diary/ https://auravision.co/field-report/the-diary/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:43:20 GMT FIELD REPORT A woman used a cloud chatbot as a diary. A human review team read it and reported her to police. Cloud AI is never private. https://auravision.co/field-report/connected-cars/ https://auravision.co/field-report/connected-cars/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:26:40 GMT FIELD REPORT A Northeastern / Consumer Reports study found 19 of 21 connected cars phone home to ad and tracking firms. The app doubles it. https://auravision.co/field-report/cloud-wiretap/ https://auravision.co/field-report/cloud-wiretap/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:10:00 GMT ANALYSIS A federal judge called Flock's license-plate network 'indiscriminate mass surveillance.' Any cloud-connected system is a wiretap you fund yourself. https://auravision.co/field-report/guest-convenience-trap/ https://auravision.co/field-report/guest-convenience-trap/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:53:20 GMT GUEST ESSAY Guest essay: the features that 'just work' are the ones quietly harvesting the data you'd never knowingly hand over. https://news.auravision.co/the-week-ai-was-renamed/ https://news.auravision.co/the-week-ai-was-renamed/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT ESSAY The week the US renamed AI 'Super Intelligence,' AuraVision had already shipped the private version — and the token that powers it. https://auravision.co/blog/psi-the-oldest-symbol-for-a-mind.html https://auravision.co/blog/psi-the-oldest-symbol-for-a-mind.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT JOURNAL Why we chose a 3,000-year-old Greek letter as our mark — psyche, the wavefunction, and the mind in the room.