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PhillyBlog Tech:Latest Slashdot News:• US Agency To Ease Self-Driving Vehicle Deployment Hurdles Retain Reporting Rules The Trump administration introduced a new framework to expedite self-driving vehicle deployment by reducing regulatory hurdles while maintaining mandatory safety incident reporting. NHTSA is also expanding its exemption program allowing domestically produced autonomous vehicles lacking traditional safety controls to operate on U.S. roads. Reuters reports: The Trump administration said Thursday it aims to speed up the deployment of self-driving vehicles but will maintain rules requiring reporting of safety incidents involving advanced vehicles. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday released a new framework to boost autonomous vehicles. "This administration understands that we're in a race with China to out-innovate and the stakes couldn't be higher" Duffy said. "Our new framework will slash red tape." The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it will expand a program to exempt some self-driving vehicles from all safety requirements and will streamline but continue its requirement that vehicles equipped with certain advanced driver assistance systems or self-driving systems report safety incidents. NHTSA is expanding its Automated Vehicle Exemption Program to now include domestically produced vehicles that will allow companies to operate non-compliant imported vehicles on U.S. roads. It is currently only open to foreign assembled models. read more >> • You'll Soon Manage a Team of AI Agents Says Microsoft's Work Trend Report ZipNada shares a report from ZDNet: Microsoft's latest research identifies a new type of organization known as the Frontier Firm where on-demand intelligence requirements are managed by hybrid teams of AI agents and humans. The report identified real productivity gains from implementing AI into organizations with one of the biggest being filling the capacity gap -- as many as 80% of the global workforce both employees and leaders report having too much work to do but not enough time or energy to do it. ... According to the report business leaders need to separate knowledge workers from knowledge work acknowledging that humans who can complete higher-level tasks such as creativity and judgment should not be stuck answering emails. Rather in the same way working professionals say they send emails or create pivot tables soon they will be able to say they create and manage agents -- and Frontier Firms are showing the potential possibilities of this approach. ... "Everyone will need to manage agents" said Cambron. "I think it's exciting to me to think that you know with agents every early-career person will be able to experience management from day one from their first job." read more >> • Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a major privacy breach involving WorkComposer a workplace surveillance app used by over 200000 people across countless companies. The app designed to track productivity by logging activity and snapping regular screenshots of employees' screens left over 21 million images exposed in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket broadcasting how workers go about their day frame by frame. The leaked data is extremely sensitive as millions of screenshots from employees' devices could not only expose full-screen captures of emails internal chats and confidential business documents but also contain login pages credentials API keys and other sensitive information that could be exploited to attack businesses worldwide. After the company was contacted access to the unsecured database was secured. An official comment has yet to be received. read more >> • Microsoft Brings Native PyTorch Arm Support To Windows Devices Microsoft has announced native PyTorch support for Windows on Arm devices with the release of PyTorch 2.7 making it significantly easier for developers to build and run machine learning models directly on Arm-powered Windows machines. This eliminates the need for manual compilation and opens up performance gains for AI tasks like image classification NLP and generative AI. Neowin reports: With the release of PyTorch 2.7 native Arm builds for Windows on Arm are now readily available for Python 3.12. This means developers can simply install PyTorch using a standard package manager like pip. According to Microsoft: "This unlocks the potential to leverage the full performance of Arm64 architecture on Windows devices like Copilot PCs for machine learning experimentation providing a robust platform for developers and researchers to innovate and refine their models." read more >> • AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization Radeon 'In The Roadmap' AMD has open-sourced its "GPU-IOV Module" for enabling SR-IOV-based virtualization on Instinct accelerators using the Linux kernel and KVM hypervisor with features like GPU scheduling and VF/PF management. Notably AMD plans to extend this virtualization support to client Radeon GPUs. Phoronix reports: The AMD GPU-IOV Module is for the Linux kernel and for providing SR-IOV based hardware virtualization in conjunction with the KVM hypervisor. GIM provides the GPU IOV virtualization virtual function (VF) configuration and enablement GPU scheduling for world switch hang detection and FLR reset and PF/VF handshake capabilities. Initially the AMD GIM driver is for the Instinct MI300X hardware and tested atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with ROCm 6.4. Those interested can find the AMD GIM code currently via GitHub. It's not laid out in the repository or any other public communications I've seen what any upstreaming plans are for this GIM driver to get it into the mainline Linux kernel. read more >> • New Android Spyware Is Targeting Russian Military Personnel On the Front Lines An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Russian military personnel are being targeted with recently discovered Android malware that steals their contacts and tracks their location. The malware is hidden inside a modified app for Alpine Quest mapping software which is used by among others hunters athletes and Russian personnel stationed in the war zone in Ukraine. The app displays various topographical maps for use online and offline. The trojanized Alpine Quest app is being pushed on a dedicated Telegram channel and in unofficial Android app repositories. The chief selling point of the trojanized app is that it provides a free version of Alpine Quest Pro which is usually available only to paying users. The malicious module is named Android.Spy.1292.origin. In a blog post researchers at Russia-based security firm Dr.Web wrote: "Because Android.Spy.1292.origin is embedded into a copy of the genuine app it looks and operates as the original which allows it to stay undetected and execute malicious tasks for longer periods of time. Each time it is launched the trojan collects and sends the following data to the C&C server: - the user's mobile phone number and their accounts; - contacts from the phonebook; - the current date; - the current geolocation; - information about the files stored on the device; - the app's version." If there are files of interest to the threat actors they can update the app with a module that steals them. The threat actors behind Android.Spy.1292.origin are particularly interested in confidential documents sent over Telegram and WhatsApp. They also show interest in the file locLog the location log created by Alpine Quest. The modular design of the app makes it possible for it to receive additional updates that expand its capabilities even further. read more >> • South Korea Says DeepSeek Transferred User Data Prompts Without Consent South Korea's data protection authority said on Thursday that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek transferred user information and prompts without permission when the service was still available for download in the country's app market. From a report: The Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement that Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co Ltd did not obtain user consent while transferring personal information to a number of companies in China and the United States at the time of its South Korean launch in January. read more >> • Apple To Strip Secret Robotics Unit From AI Chief Weeks After Moving Siri An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple will remove its secret robotics unit from the command of its artificial intelligence chief the latest shake-up in response to the company's AI struggles. Apple plans to relocate the robotics team from John Giannandrea's AI organization to the hardware division later this month according to people with knowledge of the move. That will place it under Senior Vice President John Ternus who oversees hardware engineering said the people who asked not to be identified because the change isn't public. The pending shift will mark the second major project to be removed from Giannandrea in the past month: The company stripped the flailing Siri voice assistant from his purview in March. read more >> • India's Delhi Plans To Curb Gasoline Car Sales Ban Gas-Guzzling Bikes To Shed Polluter Tag India's capital New Delhi plans to limit gasoline and diesel-powered cars a family can buy as well as ban sales of fuel-guzzling motorbikes and scooters according to a draft policy aimed at cleaning up one of the world's most polluted cities. From a report: The measures represent one of the most drastic steps the city has lined up to tackle pollution which often forces local authorities to ban some construction shut schools and disrupt flights in the city of more than 30 million people during the winter season. Under Delhi's new electric vehicle policy the city government will also waive some local taxes on the purchase of hybrids putting them on par with concessions given to EVs while imposing a new levy of 0.5 rupees ($0.0059) on every litre of petrol sales according to the 74-page draft seen by Reuters. The primary objective "is to unlock the next phase of EV adoption reduce air pollution and contribute to India's energy independence and net-zero targets" the draft stated. read more >> • 11-Year-Old GTA V Dominated Twitch in 2024 Grand Theft Auto V topped Twitch viewership charts in 2024 with a staggering 1.4 billion hours watched according to data released by the streaming platform. The 11-year-old game outperformed all competitors including League of Legends which also surpassed the billion-hour mark. Competitive shooters filled the remaining top spots with Valorant recording 804 million hours Fortnite exceeding 500 million and Call of Duty reaching 451 million hours watched. V-Tubers -- streamers using animated avatars instead of showing their faces -- saw viewership increase by 10% year-over-year accumulating over a billion hours watched collectively. read more >>
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