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It’s less about an autonomous vehicle’s capabilities and more about what conditions it can operate in. Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock Seeing a car move through city traffic with no one in the driver’s seat can make it feel like Waymo has already reached the highest possible level of automation. From a passenger’s perspective, there’s no steering, no monitoring and no need for a human to intervene. The vehicle handles the entire trip on its own. But under SAE’s (Society of Automotive Engineers) driving automation framework, that capability is still Level 4 rather than the highest: Level 5. The…
Google launched an embeddable “Preferred Source” button. Readers can now prioritize their favorite news sites across Google Search and AI Overviews with one click. Google wants you to decide which news outlets deserve prime real estate in your search results. Google rolled out a new embeddable “Preferred Source” button for web publishers on Thursday. Media sites can now add two simple lines of code to their web pages. When readers click the button, Google automatically tags that publication as a preferred source and sends the reader right back to the article. This single click changes how Google displays future search…
The universe is full of cool and interesting things, like black hole stars and nightmare planets that get scorched by their host star. Now researchers have found a star that moves ridiculously fast, and it’s right in our celestial backyard, whipping around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. Say hello to S301, a star near the center of our galaxy that was discovered by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany. It joins the massive catalog of more than 1.8 billion stars, but it has some properties that researchers believe make it special. The first, and…
Attackers are moving rapidly across endpoints, networks, cloud workloads, and identities. Traditional security tools often operate in isolation, creating visibility gaps that can hinder security teams from detecting and responding to complex attacks. This challenge has driven the adoption of Extended Detection and Response (XDR), an approach that brings together telemetry, analytics, and response capabilities in multiple environments. However, successful XDR adoption requires more than simply installing a new security platform. You can write it as: Data privacy, regulatory compliance, and automated incident response should be at the center of every XDR deployment strategy. Regulatory compliance, data management, infrastructure integration,…
AMD’s next-generation Ryzen AI 500 “Medusa Point” APUs are getting another step closer to reality, and this time Linux is doing the leaking. As first noted by Phoronix, AMD has published the firmware needed for its upcoming RDNA 4m integrated graphics, giving us another indication that the Zen 6-based mobile chips are nearing their debut. RDNA 4m is a rather interesting hybrid The new firmware targets AMD’s GFX 11.7 graphics IP, known as RDNA 4m. It sits in an unusual position between the existing RDNA 3.5 architecture and full-blown RDNA 4. AMD’s desktop RDNA 4 GPUs use the newer GFX…
Young Hungry Free lasted 14 years in S’pore’s fashion scene, and along the way, even caught Jisoo’s eye When Winnie Ong started Young Hungry Free in 2012, she was 19, fresh out of her A Levels and taking what was supposed to be a one-year gap year. She had no grand plans to build a full-fledged business. Instead, spent that year doing what she already loved—reworking clothes, experimenting with designs and figuring out how to turn her ideas into something people might actually want to wear. Fourteen years on, that side project has grown into one of Singapore’s well-known homegrown…
Ravie LakshmananAug 22, 2026Privacy / Regulation The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Friday that ByteDance-owned TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit accusing the company of violating child privacy laws in the country. As part of the settlement, the social media platform will pay $300 million immediately, and an additional $100 million “upon entry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered against TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly,” the DoJ said in a press release. A complaint filed back in August 2024 alongside the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused the company of “massive-scale invasions of children’s…
I tested the Premium plan extensively in the UK and briefly in Europe. It was quick and easy to set up in the Saily app and kept me connected as I roamed, offering decent speeds up to around 300 Mbps on 5G networks in city center locations, inevitably dropping off to 4G and around 15 Mbps in more rural spots. The specific speeds you’ll get depend entirely on the local network. Saily piggybacks on local providers, mainly connecting to EE and Vodafone during my month of testing.The Ultra plan includes 30 GB of high-speed data. In this case, high-speed simply…
A former Starbucks cafe in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Starbucks is eliminating 224 more jobs at its Seattle headquarters, according to a new state filing. The coffee giant says the layoffs don’t represent a new round of cutbacks, but rather the lingering effect of restructuring work announced earlier this year. About 120 of the 224 are employees who were offered roles in Starbucks’ new Nashville office and declined to relocate, according to the filing. Those roles are expected to be filled in Tennessee. The remaining 104 in the notice filed Thursday stem from the restructuring that Starbucks announced…
Amazon is making its order confirmation emails harder to trust, giving scammers another reason to make fake ones look legitimate. Instead of showing shoppers the exact product they purchased, Amazon’s newer order emails can display only broad categories, forcing customers to open the Amazon app or website to view the actual order details. An Amazon spokesperson told The Verge that the company made the change to simplify communications and reduce the amount of customer information shared outside its own channels. The Verge further pointed out that the move is tied to the company’s effort to prevent external AI shopping agents…