Uber is betting big on AI and autonomous vehicles, but it’s not trying to be a super-app. Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal sat down with TechCrunch to reveal how the ride-hailing giant is threading the needle between expansion and focus. From financial services ambitions to an increasingly complex dance with Waymo, Kansal’s vision suggests Uber…
Pakistan lacks a dedicated regulator for electric motorcycles and has yet to introduce a comprehensive lithium battery policy, officials informed a sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Industries on Monday, highlighting regulatory gaps that have enabled the sale of substandard batteries. The committee was told that responsibility for regulating the electric motorcycle sector…
In this article In a series of campaigns observed between mid-2025 and mid-2026, Microsoft identified threat actor activity with overlapping tradecraft commonly associated with ShinyHunters, including voice phishing (vishing), supply chain compromise, and misconfigured guest access to target customer SaaS-based applications such as Salesforce instances. The threat actors abused trusted OAuth relationships for unauthorized access,…
Good news! Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls‘ Steam backend no longer lists it as not being available for purchase in 132 countries. It’s now only listed it as not being available for purchase in 117 countries. That’s 15 whole countries removed from the list of excluded nations, which looks like it could be linked in some…
Microsoft has announced it has cut 4,800 jobs – roughly 2.1% of its workforce – with Xbox to bear a large number of its latest layoffs. Amy Coleman, executive vice president at Microsoft, told employees in a memo that the tech giant needed to focus on areas that can deliver for customers amid a “fast-changing…
Hackers working for the North Korean government have stolen more than $2 billion in crypto so far this year, according to blockchain analysis firm Elliptic. On Tuesday, Elliptic published a blog post with this new estimate, which the company says is the “largest annual total on record, with three months still to go,” and is…
How do you install new software onto a computer you can never touch, hurtling through deep space at more than twelve kilometres every second? That was the challenge facing the control team behind ESA’s Hera mission, who have just pulled off exactly that feat, leaving the spacecraft ready to begin the most important phase of…
Build with the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet, on Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine. Organizations scaling autonomous agents and AI-powered products need frontier intelligence that performs reliably across hundreds of steps, from coding agents shipping production code to cyber security research probing novel attack surfaces to genomics workflows analyzing entire gene sequences end-to-end….
Xiaomi reveals its first extended-range electric vehicle SkyNomad will sit separately from its pure EV Xiaomi Auto company The 1.5-liter engine is manufactured by Changan’s subsidiary Harbin Dongang Xiaomi is set to enter the hotly contested luxury SUV sector with an all-new business that it has dubbed SkyNomad. Fresh off the success of both the…
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