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New Crash Data Highlights The Slow Progress Of Tesla's Robotaxis

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Newly unredacted data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) suggests at least two Tesla robotaxi crashes that have happened since July 2025 occurred while vehicles were being remotely driven by teleoperators, TechCrunch reports. All self-driving car companies are supposed to report crashes to the NHTSA, but up until this point Tesla has asked the regulators to redact portions of its data to protect confidential business information.

Both crashes occurred in Austin, Texas, where Tesla first started offering robotaxi rides in June 2025, and both happened while a safety monitor was behind the wheel and no passengers were onboard. In one July 2025 crash, TechCrunchwrites, after a safety monitor requested assistance, a remote operator took over, increased the speed of the robotaxi and then drove it "up the curb and made contact with a metal fence." In another from January 2026, a remote operator assumed control and...

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America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) left open a GitHub repository named “Private-CISA” containing plain-text passwords, private keys, tokens, and secrets – with obvious file names like “external-secret-repo-creds.yaml” and “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” – for six
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