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Tesla announces Autopilot 8.0, which relies more on radar to avoid accidents like Model S crash, available soon for cars from 2014 and on via free OTA upgrade — Today, Tesla revealed Version 8 of its Autopilot software, going live in one to two weeks. Version 8. includes updates … | New York Times: |
Sources: Apple has shuttered parts of its self-driving car project, laid off dozens of employees as it rethinks its strategy — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is rethinking what it plans to do about self-driving cars, just as other big tech companies appear ready to plow ahead with competing efforts.
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Largest online DDoS service vDOS hacked, with details of customers and targets revealed; service earned $600K+ for 150K+ DDoS attacks over past two years — vDOS — a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 …
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Facebook's claim that it isn't a media entity is becoming increasingly untenable as the impact of its content ranking and removal policies continues to escalate — Facebook is more than just a site where people share photos of their children or pets. It has become a crucial way in which hundreds …
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Older workers laid off from Silicon Valley jobs are filing lawsuits or going to great lengths to appear younger for interviews — Older workers are trying lawsuits, classes, makeovers—even surgery—to keep working. — Subscribe Reprints — After Andrea Rodriguez lost her job last fall, she put away her suits.
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Report: Google to release 7-inch Huawei-built Android tablet with 4GB RAM this year — Here's something you might not have been expecting: alongside two new phones, it possible that Google will also announce a new 7-inch Android tablet very soon. According to Evan Blass, it will be released … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google issues patch for critical privilege-escalation bug and Stagefright-like flaw in Android, but “large percentage” of phones ineligible to receive fix — Google releases fixes for newer devices and ejects apps following reports. — It was a bad week for millions of Android phone users.| Vauhini Vara / Fast Company: |
Inside Microsoft's year-old program to hire autistic coders and a look at the challenges facing autistic hires and the company — Job interviews can be especially hard if you're autistic. A Microsoft effort aimed at a wider spectrum of the workforce wants to solve that.| Ina Fried / Recode: |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission says it is working with Samsung to announce a formal Galaxy Note7 recall soon, urges consumers to stop using the phones — The Consumer Product Safety Commission says people should not use or charge the tablets, whose batteries have been linked to a fire risk.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Three-week-old social network Gab.ai grows quickly among alt-right by promising near-total freedom of speech, has 12K+ users, 42K+ on waitlist, 2.7M+ pageviews — Upstart social network Gab.ai is just over three weeks old, but it's adding thousands of people to its waitlist every day by promising them almost total freedom of speech.| Melissa Mittelman / Bloomberg: |
GitHub says it scrapped its bossless corporate structure because as the company grew, it was hindering the company's ability to get things done — The software maker, which once prided itself on a flat corporate environment similar to Valve and Zappos, finds that workers can benefit from a little direction.
Tweets: @roybahat, @carnage4life and @tfadell
| Cory Doctorow / Locus Online Perspectives: |
Proliferation of the Internet of Things and unchecked data collection will escalate the privacy wars, possibly leading to a storm of class action lawsuits — It used to be that server logs were just boring utility files whose most dramatic moments came when someone forgot to write a script …
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