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Waymo plans to end its exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028 and switch to its own app to improve consistency for users (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Waymo plans to end its exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028 and switch to its own app to improve consistency for users  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo Co-Chief Executive Officer Tekedra Mawakana said her company's plan to end an exclusive robotaxi partnership …

Scientists may have finally explained why our brains and bodies are cross-wired

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Scientists propose that the brain’s mysterious cross-wiring, which connects each hemisphere to the opposite side of the body, may have originated more than 500 million years ago in the visual systems of ancient fish. Rather than evolving for a specific advantage, this unusual arrangement may simply be a legacy of evolution building new brain circuits on an ancient foundation.

The Classics Return: Vulnerable E-Mail Scripts, (Wed, Nov 4th)

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One of the early web application vulnerabilities I remember was CVE-2000-0411 [CVE]. This was a simple vulnerability in a CGI-bin script used to send e-mail. The vulnerability was pretty straightforward: Adding additional parameters to the URL leaked environment variables. Other vulnerabilities allowed setting the "To" address and were heavily abused by spammers. And if parameters were passed directly to the sendmail binary, similar vulnerabilities could allow arbitrary code execution.

French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

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Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products

France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at three cold stores stocking vital blood products, in an apparent escalation of recent cyber-attacks on fridges and freezers across Europe.

The French blood service (EFS) said temperature and defrosting thresholds had been raised to “very high levels” in the attack, adding that its alarm systems had allowed technicians to intervene before the products were compromised.

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Abdul El-Sayed Talks Historic Win in Michigan on TODAY

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Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed joins TODAY to discuss his historic win in Michigan, overcoming Islamophobia to become the first Muslim-American elected to the senate. “I ran understanding that the divide in our politics, particularly in a state like Michigan, isn’t red vs. blue or Democrat vs. Republican. It’s people who are locked out vs. the people who are doing the locking out,” he says. He also talks about the kind of senator he wants to be and weighs in on whether Chuck Schumer should

Why AI influencers work better with a human friend

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Scroll through Instagram long enough and you'll meet an influencer who isn't real. AI influencers—computer-generated personalities like Lil Miquela, who has millions of followers and has posted for Prada, Samsung and Dior—look and act like human creators, but they're entirely synthetic. Brands like them because they never go off-script, never age and never cause a scandal. Yet they share one stubborn weakness: people tend not to trust them.