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After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission will let Waymo and Cruise operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco — Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco after a contentious six-hour public hearing …
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Sources: the US Cyber Safety Review Board, created by Biden, plans to investigate cloud computing risks, including Microsoft's recent government email breach — - Cyber Safety Review Board to examine targeting of cloud — Senator Wyden had called for investigations of Microsoft
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Researchers deployed exposed Windows servers as honeypots for hackers, recording 190M events and 100 hours of video of their actions, like installing malware — Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston's subway fare system and were invited to present their work, a contrast to the transit authority's response 15 years ago — In 2008, Boston's transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides.| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
At an Australian parliamentary hearing, an X executive defended restoring a user who shared CSAM as an example of posting “out of outrage to raise awareness” — At Australian parliamentary hearing, company points to content being shared ‘out of outrage to raise awareness of an issue’
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Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distribution development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access — The fallout from Red Hat's recent decision to make it harder to access to the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues.
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US VCs and private equity firms are considering the impact of Biden's Chinese tech executive order on their holdings and weighing strategies to comply or exit — Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration's crackdown — After President Joe Biden announced …
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How yesteryear's screenless fitness bands were largely replaced by either more powerful and cheaper smartwatches or wearables with pricey monthly subscriptions — Smartwatches are the default wearable option these days, but why is it so hard to find simple yet affordable alternatives like the fitness bands of yesteryear?| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Sources and docs detail Worldcoin's struggle to define its purpose, the orb not scanning Asian people's eyes and allowing multiple signups per person, and more — Is it a crypto company? A biometric authentication platform? A “human economic system”? Inside Worldcoin's struggle to find itself.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count” — Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, said late Thursday that it is lowering requirements for its creator payout program.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that “communications-like customer content” won't be used to train AI models — Zoom has updated its terms of service and reworded a blog post explaining recent terms of service changes referencing its generative AI tools.| Reuters: |
ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B — U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group …
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