Uber partnered with Avride, formerly Yandex Self-Driving Group, to offer autonomous rides and takeout deliveries to customers in Austin, Dallas, and Jersey City. The agreement will expand to include ride-hailing services in Dallas in 2025. Avride operates delivery robots in South Korea and six-wheeled sidewalk robots in the US.
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2024-10-03 01:30:34 PM |
Spotify has introduced a new feature called Offline Backup, which is an automatically updating playlist for premium users. The playlist contains songs recently listened to and can be consumed offline. It updates based on listening history and can be filtered by artist, mood, and genre. The list appears only when offline listening is enabled and more than five songs have been streamed recently.
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2024-10-03 12:30:42 PM |
Submer, a Barcelona-based startup, has raised $55.5 million at a valuation of half a billion dollars to scale its business. The company's system submerges entire racks in vessels filled with a proprietary, biodegradable, non-conducting coolant, likened to 'amniotic fluid'. This approach helps to manage heat generated by data centers, which is a major issue for AI workloads.
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2024-10-03 11:00:40 AM |
Hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Zimbra email servers, tracked as CVE-2024-45519. The vulnerability exists in Zimbra's postjournal service, which is used to parse incoming emails over SMTP. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by sending specially crafted emails with commands to execute in the CC field. The malicious activity was first reported by HarfangLab's threat researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski and confirmed by experts at Proofpoint.
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2024-10-03 09:40:39 AM |
