Month: June 2025
Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide
A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn’t taking risks. Source
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35,000 solar PV devices hit by dozens of vulnerabilities and weaknesses: is yours one of them?
Forescout report finds many vulnerable solar devices run outdated firmware with known exploits active in the wild Europe holds 76% of all exposed solar power devices, with Germany and Greece particularly at risk SolarView Compact exposure jumped 350% in two years, and it’s already linked to cybercrime The rapid growth…
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Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe
23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to buy back the company after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year. On Friday, 23andMe and TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit public benefit corporation run by Wojcicki, announced in a press release that TTAM would be buying…
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AMD made key acquisitions to close the widening gap between its Instinct GPUs and Nvidia’s Blackwell accelerators – but will it be enough?
AMD is aggressively acquiring talent to bridge the Instinct and Blackwell GPU performance gap Brium’s compiler expertise could help AMD accelerate inference without hardware-specific dependencies Untether AI’s team joins AMD, but existing customers are left without product support AMD’s recent moves in the AI sector have centered around strategic acquisitions…
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Researchers discover 40,000 private webcams exposed online: how to secure yours now
Default passwords and outdated firmware are turning your home camera into a public livestream, report warns Thousands of exposed webcams are offering a front-row seat into private and corporate life A simple web browser is all it takes to peek into 40,000 unsecured camera feeds Thousands of internet-connected webcams, intended…
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The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine
The Internet Archive made it easier to search for ’90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities webpages, which (mostly) bit the dust in 2009. The new version of GifCities is much easier to search.…
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