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Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash overrode FSD by pressing accelerator ‘100 percent,’ investigators confirm

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The Tesla driver who fatally struck a woman after crashing into her home “manually overrode” the vehicle’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology by pressing the gas pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed in a preliminary report on Wednesday. After examining the car’s electronic data, investigators found that the Tesla Model 3 reached speeds greater than 70mph during the crash.

In June, 44-year-old Michael Butler’s vehicle plowed into a Katy, Texas home, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila inside. The home is located on a two-lane road with a 30mph speed limit, the NTSB’s report says, adding that “the weather was clear, the roadway was dry, and daylight conditions were present” when the crash occurred.

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C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest

Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering Threat intel outfit Group-IB has detailed a previously undocumented macOS information stealer that doesn't bother hunting for software bugs. Instead, it persuades users to pwn themselves by pasting a command into Terminal,

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Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility

Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model. Imagine never having to reach for your mouse to navigate around Windows again. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well wake up: We have some peripherals to burn. Neverclick, from developer

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AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year Forrester warns that customers should brace for bigger software bills next year as software and AI vendors raise prices and pile on usage charges. Working from a survey of more than 2,600 business and technology

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Seagate IronWolf Pro and WD Red Pro NAS drives are all discounted — here's why I'd buy the most…

High-capacity NAS drives are far from cheap, so it's often easy to focus on the sticker price rather than the long-term value. I was looking through a selection of NAS drives on sale at Best Buy and Newegg when something occurred to me. Although the 24TB Seagate IronWolf

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C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest

Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility

AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

Seagate IronWolf Pro and WD Red Pro NAS drives are all discounted &mdash; here's why I'd buy the most…

Seagate IronWolf Pro and WD Red Pro NAS drives are all discounted — here's why I'd buy the most…