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Tesla has released its most detailed study yet on the performance and relative safety of its advanced driver assistance software, just weeks after Waymo co-CEO Tekdra Mawakana called on companies to release more data at TechCrunch Disrupt. In a new section of its website, Tesla claims that in North America, owners using the company’s fully self-driving (supervised) software drive about 5 million miles before a major crash and about 1.5 million miles before a minor crash. This is a much lower rate than the national average based on statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). According to…
Let’s be honest: Most tech wearables are bulky and not exactly beautiful. But when you wear something on a regular basis, you probably want it to look good and even match your other jewelry. That’s the idea behind Oura’s latest smart ring, Oura Ring 4 Ceramic. Ring 4 Ceramic is Oura’s first collection of smart rings without a metal finish. Instead, it’s made from a more wear-resistant zirconia ceramic, which Oura says provides both style and comfort. I’ve been testing the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic over the past three weeks. My impressions are shown below. But before we get into…
November 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage their malicious payloads. NVISO researchers Bart Parys, Stef Collart, and Efstratios Lontzetidis said in a Thursday report that “attackers have recently been using JSON storage services such as JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host and distribute malware from trojanized code projects.” The campaign essentially approaches potential targets on professional networking sites such as LinkedIn under the pretext of conducting a job evaluation or collaborating on a project, and as part of…
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT will remove all dashes when directed to do so. These signs, which appear to signal text written by AI, have popped up everywhere in recent months, including school newspapers, emails, comments, customer service chats, LinkedIn posts, online forums, and ad copy. The inclusion of the em dash led people to criticize these writers for being lazy and relying on AI chatbots to do their work. Of course, there are many people who argue for the em dash, saying it was part of the sentence long before LLM adopted the punctuation mark. But the fact that chatbots…
An astrophotographer has captured a stunning shot of a falling skydiver matching perfectly with the sun’s fiery surface. A flying adventurer appears to be rolling through the vacuum of space in front of our home planet.Andrew McCarthy, an Arizona-based astrophotographer who specializes in photographing the sun, snapped the unlikely photo around 9 a.m. MST (11 a.m. ET) on Saturday (November 8). The photo, dubbed “The Fall of Icarus,” required an “absolutely ridiculous” level of planning and “may be the first of its kind in existence,” McCarthy wrote in a post on social platform X.The skydiver in the image is YouTuber…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that five North Koreans have pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting fraud from U.S. companies by posing as remote IT employees. The five are suspected of working as “middlemen” who helped North Koreans find jobs by providing their real identities or the false and stolen identities of more than a dozen Americans. The intermediaries also placed company-issued laptops in homes across the United States to make it appear that the North Korean workers lived locally, according to a Justice Department press release. These measures affected 136 U.S. companies and generated $2.2 million…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all trace back to the same root cause: the overlooked and dangerous use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python’s pickle deserialization,” Oligo Security researcher Avi Lumelsky said in a report published Thursday. The core of this problem stems from a pattern called ShadowMQ. This pattern propagates unsafe deserialization logic across multiple projects as a result of code reuse. The root cause is a vulnerability in Meta’s Llama Large…
Pine Labs, the payments technology company backed by PayPal and Mastercard, won support from retail investors on Friday, ending its first day of trading 14% higher despite lowering the valuation of its $440 million IPO. This makes it India’s second-largest fintech listed company this year, after online brokerage Groww’s debut earlier this week with about $750 million. The stock price started at Rs 242, rose to Rs 284 and settled at Rs 252 from the issue price of Rs 221. As a result, the Gurugram-based company has a market capitalization of 289 billion rupees (about $3.3 billion). While this is…
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold doesn’t look much different when placed side-by-side with last year’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold. Other than Google’s AI chops, there aren’t any major overhauls at first glance. However, this is the first foldable product to receive an IP68 rating, which is significant. Ever since companies started releasing foldable products, durability has been a top concern for users. When buying a foldable phone, the longevity of the hinge, the protection of the inner screen, and the resistance of the device to liquids and sand are always major considerations compared to slab phones. Google’s Pixel 10 Pro…
North America’s giant “hell pigs” may have been munching on bones some 30 million years ago, while smaller pigs were tearing through softer substances like meat, a new study has found.The “hell pigs,” scientifically known as archaeotherium (Greek for “ancient beast”), were a group of pig-like creatures that could be as tall as a human when standing on four legs and weigh more than 2,000 pounds (1,000 kilograms).Researchers have known about Archaeotherium since 1850. But now, new tooth analysis reveals that these beasts’ feeding strategies were more diverse than previously thought. By examining tooth wear, the researchers found that larger…