Pebble OS, Apple Chip Vulnerability, UnitedHealth Breach, & DeepSeek

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - February 7th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff discuss Google releasing the source code for Pebble OS and allowing for the creation of a new Pebble smartwatch. Finally! Sweden has seized a ship known as Vezhen over suspicions that it is directly responsible for the recent damage to the Baltic Sea fiber data cable running to Latvia. Last year, UnitedHealth reported that 100 million people were affected by a data breach; that number has now been updated to 190 million, the largest healthcare data breach in the U.S. A serious vulnerability has been discovered in many Apple chips in Macs, iPhones, and iPads that can leak credit card details, locations, and more. eBay has started a partnership with Facebook Marketplace to try to help improve the visibility of listings and expand their reach beyond their local markets. And finally, the latest big news in AI is DeepSeek, specifically the open-source R1 model, which has quickly outpaced the rest of the industry. https://hub.lighthousesol.com/blog/lighthouse-it-podcast-2/pebble-os-apple-chip-vulnerability-unitedhealth-breach-deepseek-375