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Conspiracists and far-right extremists are blaming just about everything and everyone for Tuesday morning’s Baltimore bridge collapse.
It’s a slate-gray Tuesday morning in January, and Sadiq Khan is marching through Camden Market trailed by a caravan of officials, press officers, and the hulking presence of his Metropolitan Police protection unit.
Volkswagen is the first manufacturer to greenlight the development of an autonomous Level 4 service vehicle based on the ID. Buzz platform and intended for large-scale production.
Volkswagen will bring new automated driving technologies to series production as it deepens its partnership with Mobileye in automotive driving technologies, Europe's biggest carmaker said on Wednesday.
More than 600 Google workers and counting have signed a letter addressed to Google marketing leadership demanding that it drop its sponsorship of Mind the Tech, an annual conference promoting the Israeli tech industry taking place in New York this week. “Please withdraw from Mind the Tech, issue an apology, and stand with Googlers and customers who are despairing over the overwhelming loss of life in Gaza; we need Google to do better,” reads the letter, which was seen by WIRED.
When Anne Neuberger stepped into the newly created role of deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology on the White House’s National Security Council at the start of the Biden administration, she was already one of the government’s most experienced cyber veterans.
As we enter the age of the software-defined automobile, especially those with electric drivetrains, we’re facing unprecedented risk from cyberattacks, say a wide coterie of experts. According to the Israel-based Upstream firm, from 2019 to 2023 disclosed cybersecurity incidents in the automotive and mobility space increased by more than 50%, with 295 such occurrences in 2023. Some 64% of these attacks were executed by “bad hat actors” with malevolent intent, the report said. And 65% of deep and dark web cyber activities last year “had the potential to impact thousands to millions of mobility assets.” Shira Sarid-Hausirer, vice president of marketing at Upstream, which has an office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said attacks could potentially cost automakers millions of dollars. “The smarter a vehicle, the more vulnerable it is,” she said. “A single incident could cause a lot of damage to an OEM. Over-the-air updates could fix the vulnerability, but that