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Waymo issued a software recall for 1,200 self-driving cars after some of the Robotaki were involved in minor collisions with road objects such as gates, chains and other gates. The software update, first reported by Reuters, was implemented late last year, according to documents submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Alphabet-owned company said in a document that Waymo’s Safety Board has decided to carry out a recall on that particular version of the unattended software in order to “meet relevant regulatory reporting obligations.” The NHTSA began preliminary evaluations of Waymo’s autonomous driving system last May, and…
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok responded to dozens of posts to X with information about South Africa’s “white genocide” even if users asked for nothing on the subject as it appeared to be experiencing a bug on Wednesday. The strange response comes from GROK’s X account, and responds to users with AI-generated posts whenever a user tages @Grok. When asked about unrelated topics, Grok repeatedly spoke to users about “white genocide” and the anti-apartheid chant “Kill the Boer.” Grok’s strange, unrelated replies remind us that AI chatbots are still an early technology and are not always a reliable source of…
Apple’s leading manufacturer, Foxconn, has approved by the Indian Cabinet to build a semiconductor plant worth 37 billion people ($435 million) in a joint venture with the domestic IT giant HCL group. The deal is the latest move to reduce Apple’s dependence on China and produce more components in India. The factory, located near Jewel Airport in northern Uttar Pradesh and expected to start operation in 2027, will eventually manufacture display driver chips for mobile phones, laptops, cars, PCs and other devices, India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at a commemorative review meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. Displays a…
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been reintroduced to Congress. If passed to the law, the bill could impose some of the most significant legislative changes the Internet has seen in the United States since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998. As is the case now, Kosa can hold social media platforms legally accountable if these companies prove to be not doing enough to protect minors from harm. The bill includes a long list of possible harms such as eating disorders, sexual exploitation, substance abuse, and suicide. It passed the Senate overwhelmingly last year, but the…
Two-year-old Maikelys Espinoza Bernal was reunited with her Venezuelan mother following her call for return.A Venezuelan toddler, separated from his parents after crossing the US-Mexican border, was returned to Venezuela, where his mother was deported in April. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro thanked two-year-old Maykelly’s Espinoza Bernal for returning to his mother, Yory Bernal on Wednesday. “We must be grateful for all our efforts [Trump special envoy] I would like to thank Rich Grenell for his efforts… and to Donald Trump,” Maduro said, calling the return of the child a “act of justice.” Both the infant’s parents were criticized by the…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Malware Samsung has released a software update to address critical security flaws in the wildly active MagicInfo 9 servers. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-4632 (CVSS score: 9.8) is described as a cross-path defect. “Inappropriate restriction of pathnames for a restricted directory vulnerability in Samsung Magicinfo 9 server versions prior to 21.1052 allows an attacker to describe any file as system privileges,” according to the flawed advisory. Note that CVE-2025-4632 is a patch bypass for CVE-2024-7399, another past traversal defect of the same product, patched by Samsung in August 2024. CVE-2025-4632 was exploited in the wild shortly after…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananRansomware/Vulnerability At least two different cybercrime groups Bianlian and Ransomexx are said to have exploited the security flaws recently disclosed in SAP NetWeaver, indicating that multiple threat actors are exploiting the bug. Cybersecurity company ReliaQuest said in a new update released today, it revealed evidence suggesting involvement from Vial’s data fear tor crew and the Ransomexx ransomware family. Bianlian is rated as involved in at least one incident based on infrastructure links to IP addresses previously identified as attributed to the E-Crime group. “Identified the server at 184[.]174[.]96[.]74 hosting reverse proxy services started by the RS64.exe executable,…
President Donald Trump has posted more than 200 posts on oil prices since joining Twitter in 2009, and his mischief offers insight into the prices he prefers over crude. Goldman Sachs mined all Trump’s posts on Twitter, X, and on his social media platform, Truth Social. The banks have found that Trump is seeking to cut oil prices by 213 times and increase prices by 15 times. The president has posted the least about crude oil prices when US crude is trading between $40 and $50 per barrel, suggesting that this is his preferred price range, an analyst led by…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananCybercrime/Cryptocurrency The Chinese telegram-based market, known as Xinbi Guarantee, has driven more than $8.4 billion in transactions since 2022, promoting the exposure of the second major black market after the Huione Guarantee. A report published by Blockchain Analytics company Elliptic shows that market merchants will learn technology, personal data and money laundering services. “USDT Stablecoin is a major payment method and the market has so far received $8.4 billion in transactions,” the company said. “Some transactions can be linked to funds stolen by North Korea.” Xinbi, like Huione, serves Southeast Asian scammers, including those in charge of…
Waterloo-based tech startup Voltra, along with the Hanover Capital and Velocity Fund, has officially launched stealth with a $1.8 million seed round led by the reverse. The company is launching Charge, the first product built to simplify control of EV chargers, batteries and microgrids. Founders Alexander Stratomen and Arian Afrouzi began Voltola while studying at the University of Waterloo. They saw how today’s energy infrastructure has been stuck in the past. It was entangled with slow moving, closures and outdated systems. “Most of the energy space focuses on top-down control and infrastructure build-outs to modernize the grid,” explains Stratmoen. “We…