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Cruise To Slash Workforce By Nearly 50% After GM Cuts Funding To Robotaxi Operations
Autonomous vehicle company Cruise will lay off about half of its 2,100 employees and remove several top executives, including CEO Marc Whitten, as parent company General Motors shifts away from robotaxi development to focus on personal autonomous vehicles.
The cuts come two months after GM said it would stop funding Cruise's robotaxi program to save $1 billion annually. Affected workers will receive severance packages including eight weeks of pay and benefits through April. The restructuring follows an October incident where a Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian, leading to the suspension of its permits.
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Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs - 9to5Linux
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Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs - 9to5Linux
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Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs - 9to5Linux
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Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs - 9to5Linux
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Panasonic To Cut Costs To Support Shift Into AI
Panasonic will cut its costs, restructure underperforming units and revamp its workforce as it pivots toward AI data centers and away from its consumer electronics roots, the company said on Tuesday. The Japanese conglomerate aims to boost profits by 300 billion yen ($1.93 billion) by March 2029, partly by consolidating production and logistics operations.
Bloomberg reports that CEO Yuki Kusumi has declined to confirm if the company would divest its TV business but said alternatives were being considered. The Tesla battery supplier plans to integrate AI across operations through a partnership with Anthropic, targeting growth in components for data centers.
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Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Benefit For HPC Workloads - Phoronix
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Americans Kiss Job Hopping Goodbye
Americans quit 39.6 million jobs in 2024, an 11% drop from 2023 and 22% below the 2022 peak, Labor Department data showed Tuesday, signaling an end to the post-pandemic job-switching frenzy. The monthly quit rate fell below pre-pandemic levels as workers faced diminishing options in a cooling labor market. Available positions per unemployed worker dropped to 1.1 from 2 in March 2022, while hiring declined to a monthly average of 3.5% in 2024 from 4.4% in 2021.
Total hiring fell to 66 million in 2024 from 71 million in 2023, though the job market remained stable. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%, with economists expecting steady job growth in Friday's upcoming labor report. The Conference Board's latest survey showed fewer respondents viewing jobs as plentiful compared to the early 2020s, with more reporting difficulties finding work.
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Responsible AI: Our 2024 report and ongoing workResponsible AI: Our 2024 report and ongoing workSVP, Research, Labs, Technology & SocietyCEO and Co-Founder
We’re publishing our 2024 Responsible AI Progress Report and updating our Frontier Safety Framework and AI Principles.We’re publishing our 2024 Responsible AI Progress Report and updating our Frontier Safety Framework and AI Principles.
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Microsoft Quietly Makes It Harder To Install Windows 11 on Old PCs Ahead of Windows 10's End of Support
Microsoft has intensified efforts to block unsupported Windows 11 installations, removing documentation about bypassing system requirements and flagging third-party workaround tools as potential malware. The move comes as Windows 10 approaches end of support in October 2025, when users must either continue without updates, upgrade to Windows 11, or purchase new hardware compatible with Windows 11's TPM 2.0 requirement.
Microsoft Defender now identifies Flyby11, a popular tool for installing Windows 11 on incompatible devices, as "PUA:Win32/Patcher." Users are also reporting that unsupported Windows 11 installations are already facing restrictions, with some machines unable to receive major updates. Microsoft has also removed text from its "Ways to install Windows 11" page that had provided instructions for bypassing TPM 2.0 requirements through registry key modifications. The removed section included technical details for users who acknowledged and accepted the risks of installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware.
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Calling all creators: .channel is now available for registrationCalling all creators: .channel is now available for registrationGoogle Registry Team
Google Registry, the domain registry behind some of the internet’s most popular (.app) and fun (.meme) new top-level domains, is launching .channel today.Designed specif…
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Lung Cancer Diagnoses On the Rise Among Never-Smokers Worldwide
The proportion of people being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked is increasing, with air pollution an "important factor," the World Health Organization's cancer agency has said. From a report: Lung cancer in people who have never smoked cigarettes or tobacco is now estimated to be the fifth highest cause of cancer deaths worldwide, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Lung cancer in never-smokers is also occurring almost exclusively as adenocarcinoma, which has become the most dominant of the four main subtypes of the disease in both men and women globally, the IARC said.
About 200,000 cases of adenocarcinoma were associated with exposure to air pollution in 2022, according to the IARC study published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. The largest burden of adenocarcinoma attributable to air pollution was found in east Asia, particularly China, the study found.
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Chris Anderson Is Giving TED Away To Whoever Has the Best Idea for Its Future
Chris Anderson, who transformed TED from a small conference into a global platform for sharing ideas, announced today he's stepping down after 25 years at the helm. The nonprofit's leader is seeking new ownership through an unusual open call for proposals. Anderson told WIRED he wants potential buyers -- whether universities, philanthropic organizations, media companies or tech firms -- to demonstrate both vision and financial capacity.
The organization, which charges $12,500 for its flagship conference seats, maintains $25 million in cash reserves and reports a $100 million break-even balance sheet. The future owner must commit to keeping the conference running and maintaining TED's practice of sharing talks for free.
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Microsoft Veteran Ponders World Where Toothbrushes Need Reboots
New submitter mastazi writes: In his latest post, veteran Microsoft developer Raymond Chen reflects on what it means living in a world where you might need to reboot your toothbrush, or perform a firmware update to your shoes!
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Linux containers in 2025 and beyond - Network World
Linux containers in 2025 and beyond Network World
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China Launches Antitrust Investigation Into Google
China said Tuesday it has launched an antitrust investigation into Google, part of a swift retaliation after the U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. From a report: The probe by China's State Administration for Market Regulation will examine alleged monopolistic practices by the U.S. tech giant, which has had its search and internet services blocked in China since 2010 but maintains operations there primarily focused on advertising.
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Q4 earnings call: CEO’s remarksQ4 earnings call: CEO’s remarksCEO of Google and Alphabet
Read Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai's remarks from the Q4 2024 earnings call.Read Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai's remarks from the Q4 2024 earnings call.
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