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Toyota is recalling roughly two hundred twenty-eight thousand Sienna minivans over a safety concern that hits close to home for families. The issue involves second-row captain's chairs whose seat backs may shift during a crash, potentially putting passengers at greater risk of injury. If you own a Sienna with that configuration, it's worth checking whether your vehicle is affected.
Shifting to the digital world, Coinbase is reassuring customers after a data exposure tied to a third-party analytics vendor called Amplitude. The crypto exchange says its own systems were not compromised, but some customer contact information did get out. It's a familiar pattern in the industry — your platform may be secure, but the vendors surrounding it introduce risk that's harder to control.
And for engineers working with complex electronics, a new tool called Cirkit is making a quiet debut on Hacker News. It lets electrical engineers annotate circuit schematic PDFs, trace connections, and ask an AI questions about their designs. The promise is better documentation, which sounds unglamorous until you're debugging a hardware problem at midnight.
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