Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving unit, has begun offering its San Francisco employees fully autonomous rides, the company said Wednesday. Waymo will begin its rider-only operations within its “initial San Francisco service territory,” which spans from the Presidio to the farthest corner of Candlestick Point, and gradually ramp up from there. The Read more…
Almost $10 billion over the next decade will be pumped into helping Australia compete in cyber warfare with adversaries such as Russia and China in a major funding boost that will nearly double the size of the nation’s leading cyber security agency. In its centrepiece defence budget announcement, the government Read more…
A “powerful” cyberattack has hit Ukraine’s biggest fixed line telecommunications company, Ukrtelecom. Described as the most severe cyberattack since the start of the Russian invasion in February, it has sent the company’s services across the country down. Victor Zhora, deputy head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Read more…
The Finnish company played a key role in enabling Russia’s cyberspying, documents show, raising questions of corporate responsibility. Nokia said this month that it would stop its sales in Russia and denounced the invasion of Ukraine. But the Finnish company didn’t mention what it was leaving behind: equipment and software Read more…
Microsoft’s new security chief Charlie Bell issued a call to arms to build protection from hackers and criminals in the emerging metaverse from the start of the new technology. From a report: “There’s going to be a lot of innovation and there will be a lot of struggling to figure Read more…
In 2018 police arrested “the Golden State Killer” — now a 72-year-old man who had committed 13 murders between 1974 and 1986, the New York Times remembers: What made the investigation possible was GEDmatch, a low-frills, online gathering place for people to upload DNA test results from popular direct-to-consumer services Read more…
“Pong on a Commodore 64 is one thing… but Pong in a single C64 sprite? That’s uncharted territory,” writes Slashdot reader segaboy81. The Commodore 64 is an iconic machine. For many of us boomers, it was our introduction to programming… Josip Retro Bits is a YouTube channel that specializes in Read more…