百度自动驾驶出租车准备开辟海外市场
百度无人驾驶出租车业务将拓展海外市场。预计 2025 年下半年进驻亚洲和中东，2026 年将涉足欧洲。将通过与网约车大企业合作，方便消费者利用。在美国 Alphabet 旗下的 Waymo寻 求进军日本等海外市场的情况下，百度将利用在中国积累的经验，开拓单价较高的海外市场。百度早在 2013 年就启动了自动驾驶技术的研发，以 2019 年的湖南省长沙市为开端，推出了无人自动驾驶出租车业务“萝卜快跑(Apollo Go)”。目前在湖北武汉和北京等 10 多个城市开展业务。4～6 月的运营次数增加到 220 万次，是 2024 年同期的 2.5 倍。从服务开始到 8 月，累计 1400 万次，行驶里程超过 1 亿公里。 via Solidot
百度无人驾驶出租车业务将拓展海外市场。预计 2025 年下半年进驻亚洲和中东，2026 年将涉足欧洲。将通过与网约车大企业合作，方便消费者利用。在美国 Alphabet 旗下的 Waymo寻 求进军日本等海外市场的情况下，百度将利用在中国积累的经验，开拓单价较高的海外市场。百度早在 2013 年就启动了自动驾驶技术的研发，以 2019 年的湖南省长沙市为开端，推出了无人自动驾驶出租车业务“萝卜快跑(Apollo Go)”。目前在湖北武汉和北京等 10 多个城市开展业务。4～6 月的运营次数增加到 220 万次，是 2024 年同期的 2.5 倍。从服务开始到 8 月，累计 1400 万次，行驶里程超过 1 亿公里。 via Solidot
Dev Gets 4 Years For Creating Kill Switch On Ex-Employer's Systems
August 22, 2025 at 06:00PM
August 22, 2025 at 06:00PM
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Dev Gets 4 Years For Creating Kill Switch On Ex-Employer's Systems
Davis Lu, a former Eaton Corporation developer, has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's Windows network with malware and a custom kill switch that locked out thousands of employees once his account was disabled. The attack…
Denmark To Abolish VAT On Books To Get More People Reading
August 22, 2025 at 09:00PM
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Denmark To Abolish VAT On Books To Get More People Reading
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Denmark is to stop charging VAT on books in an attempt to get more people reading. At 25%, the country's tax rate on books is the highest in the world, a policy the government believes is contributing…
KPMG Wrote 100-Page Prompt To Build Agentic TaxBot
August 22, 2025 at 10:00PM
August 22, 2025 at 10:00PM
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KPMG Wrote 100-Page Prompt To Build Agentic TaxBot
Professional services firms are engineering AI agents through massive prompt documents to automate complex knowledge work. KPMG Australia developed a 100-page prompt that transforms tax legislation and partner expertise into an agent producing comprehensive…
OpenAI Is Challenging Google - While Using Its Search Data
August 22, 2025 at 10:42PM
August 22, 2025 at 10:42PM
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OpenAI Is Challenging Google - While Using Its Search Data
An anonymous reader shares a report: As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google. OpenAI has been using Google search results scraped from the web to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people…
Coinbase Reverses Remote-First Policy After North Korean Infiltration Attempts
August 22, 2025 at 11:22PM
August 22, 2025 at 11:22PM
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Coinbase Reverses Remote-First Policy After North Korean Infiltration Attempts
Remote work policies designed to attract top talent are becoming security vulnerabilities as state-sponsored hackers seek employment at cryptocurrency firms. Coinbase has implemented mandatory in-person orientation and US citizenship requirements for sensitive…
US Strips Ocean and Air Pollution Monitoring From Next-Gen Weather Satellites
August 23, 2025 at 12:12AM
August 23, 2025 at 12:12AM
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US Strips Ocean and Air Pollution Monitoring From Next-Gen Weather Satellites
An anonymous reader shares a report: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades, two people…
Google TV and Android TV Apps Must Support 64-bit Starting August 2026
August 23, 2025 at 12:50AM
August 23, 2025 at 12:50AM
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Google TV and Android TV Apps Must Support 64-bit Starting August 2026
BrianFagioli writes: Google is preparing to bring its television platforms in line with the rest of Android. Starting August 1, 2026, both Google TV and Android TV will require app updates that include native code to provide 64-bit support. The move follows…
Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI To Power Revamped Siri
August 23, 2025 at 01:33AM
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Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI To Power Revamped Siri
Apple is in early discussions about using Google Gemini to power a revamped version of the Siri voice assistant, marking a key potential step toward outsourcing more of its artificial intelligence technology. From a report: The iPhone maker recently approached…
Default Microsoft 365 Domains Face 100-Email Daily Limit Starting October
August 23, 2025 at 02:14AM
August 23, 2025 at 02:14AM
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Default Microsoft 365 Domains Face 100-Email Daily Limit Starting October
Organizations still using default Microsoft 365 email domains face severe throttling starting this October. The restrictions target the onmicrosoft.com domain that Microsoft 365 automatically assigns to new tenants, limiting external messages to 100 recipients…
Intel Has Agreed To a Deal For US To Take 10% Equity Stake, Trump Says
August 23, 2025 at 02:50AM
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Intel Has Agreed To a Deal For US To Take 10% Equity Stake, Trump Says
President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America. Reuters: The development…
Europe Is Losing
August 23, 2025 at 03:30AM
August 23, 2025 at 03:30AM
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Europe Is Losing
Europe's share of global economic output has fallen from 33% to 23% since 2005 while its space launch capacity has nearly collapsed, launching just four rockets this year compared to over 100 for the United States and 40 for China. The continent's economic…
Workers Need Better Protections From the Heat
August 23, 2025 at 04:20AM
August 23, 2025 at 04:20AM
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Workers Need Better Protections From the Heat
An anonymous reader shares a report: Expect record-breaking temperatures to change the workplace, the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today in a new report. When workers don't have adequate protections from…
4chan Refuses To Pay UK Online Safety Act Fines
August 23, 2025 at 05:00AM
August 23, 2025 at 05:00AM
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4chan Refuses To Pay UK Online Safety Act Fines
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won't pay a proposed fine by the UK's media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act. According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law…
Record Solar Growth Keeps China's CO2 Falling in First Half of 2025
August 23, 2025 at 05:40AM
August 23, 2025 at 05:40AM
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Record Solar Growth Keeps China's CO2 Falling in First Half of 2025
Clean-energy growth helped China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024. From a report: The CO2 output of the nation's power sector -- its dominant source…
Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google
August 23, 2025 at 06:00AM
August 23, 2025 at 06:00AM
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Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google
Google has signed a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta worth over $10 billion, making it the second major partnership after a recent agreement with OpenAI. The deal will see Meta rely on Google Cloud's infrastructure to support its massive AI data center…
Waymo Granted First Permit To Being Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC
August 23, 2025 at 06:20AM
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Waymo Granted First Permit To Being Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC
Waymo has received its first permit from the New York City Department of Transportation to begin testing autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, marking the city's first official rollout of self-driving car trials. The program will initially…
Microsoft Reportedly Cuts China's Early Access to Bug Disclosures, PoC Exploit Code
August 23, 2025 at 07:00AM
August 23, 2025 at 07:00AM
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Microsoft Reportedly Cuts China's Early Access to Bug Disclosures, PoC Exploit Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be…
Meta Set To Unveil First Consumer-Ready Smart Glasses With a Display, Wristband
August 23, 2025 at 07:40AM
August 23, 2025 at 07:40AM
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Meta Set To Unveil First Consumer-Ready Smart Glasses With a Display, Wristband
At its upcoming Connect conference next month, Meta is rumored to unveil its first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display, alongside a neural wristband controller. The $800 device, codenamed Hypernova, will be able to show simple visual content…
Bluesky Blocks Service In Mississippi Over Age Assurance Law
August 23, 2025 at 08:20AM
August 23, 2025 at 08:20AM
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Bluesky Blocks Service In Mississippi Over Age Assurance Law
Bluesky has blocked access to its service in Mississippi rather than comply with a new state law requiring age verification for all social media users. TechCrunch reports: In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it…