Waymo has entered a “multi-year, strategic partnership” with Hyundai to integrate the company’s autonomous driving system into the American-made Hyundai Ioniq 5. It’s expected to join the Waymo One fleet after road tests starting in late 2025. Waymo and Geely joined forces in 2021 to introduce a mobility-focused Zeekr EV. Read more…
During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 terabits per second, the largest publicly recorded to date. The assault consisted of a “month-long” barrage of more than 100 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks flooding the network infrastructure with garbage data. Read more…
Andy Kill, a spokesperson for 23andMe, would not comment on what the company might do with its trove of genetic data beyond general pronouncements about its commitment to privacy. “For our customers, our focus continues to be on transparency and choice over how they want their data to be managed,” Read more…
They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates — all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single one of Read more…
Researchers have discovered that a popular food dye used in Cheetos “alters the optical qualities of skin, allowing light to pass through. Larger doses of the dye used on humans could make searching veins for blood draw easier. From a report: Tartrazine, the yellowing agent for the “dangerously cheesy” snack, Read more…
Organizations that get relieved of credentials to their cloud environments can quickly find themselves part of a disturbing new trend: Cybercriminals using stolen cloud credentials to operate and resell sexualized AI-powered chat services. Researchers say these illicit chat bots, which use custom jailbreaks to bypass content filtering, often veer into Read more…
A new HBO documentary directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Cullen Hoback claims to have revealed the true identity of the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. As Politico notes, Hoback “drew critical acclaim for his series ‘Q: Into the Storm’ that exposed the authors of the QAnon conspiracy theory.” The bitcoin Read more…