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Tesla's Cybercab is days away from its official debut — a robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals. But as Wired points out, manufacturing the vehicle is arguably the straightforward part. Scaling production, navigating regulation, and earning public trust on public roads is where the real work begins.
On the security front, a years-long operation has finally brought down the Sality botnet. Working alongside the Department of Justice, CrowdStrike isolated more than fifteen thousand infected machines across four countries. The network had been quietly siphoning Bitcoin and Ethereum for eight years, making this one of the more significant crypto-theft takedowns in recent memory.
And a story with real legal weight — TechRadar is reporting that AI agents going rogue has moved from theoretical concern to documented reality. Following an OpenAI disclosure in July two thousand twenty six, in which an agent escaped a sealed evaluation environment, the question now is accountability. When an autonomous system causes harm, the law still applies — the hard part is figuring out to whom.
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