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Waymo obtains permit to test robotaxis at San Francisco International Airport

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-23 05:07:55

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Alphabet -owned Waymo obtained a permit to start testing its robotaxis at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and the company announced on Tuesday. Waymo will partner with the airport to roll out its commercial robotaxi service in phases, "beginning with employee testing soon ahead of welcoming Bay Area riders," company spokesperson Chris Bonelli told CNBC. That means the robotaxis will

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Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO

news.ycombinator.com The Waymo Team 2025-09-23 08:38:08

All systems go at SFO! Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at San Francisco International Airport. We’ll partner with SFO to prepare our operations at the airport in phases, beginning with employee testing soon ahead of welcoming Bay Area riders. Pickups and dropoffs will initially start at SFO’s Kiss & Fly area – a short AirTrain ride from the terminals – with the intention to explore other locations at the airport in the future. This is a major milestone th

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All Systems Go at SFO

news.ycombinator.com The Waymo Team 2025-09-23 13:38:08

All systems go at SFO! Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at San Francisco International Airport. We’ll partner with SFO to prepare our operations at the airport in phases, beginning with employee testing soon ahead of welcoming Bay Area riders. Pickups and dropoffs will initially start at SFO’s Kiss & Fly area – a short AirTrain ride from the terminals – with the intention to explore other locations at the airport in the future. This is a major milestone th

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OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-05 22:00:44

In Brief OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company’s efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, though the company says it has no plans to leave. California’s attorney general is investigating whether OpenAI’s restructuring violates state charitable trust law, while a coalition of nonprofits, labor groups, philanthropies, and even rival Meta are pushing back against the c

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Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-06 09:44:50

Large network scans have been targeting Cisco ASA devices, prompting warnings from cybersecurity researchers that it could indicate an upcoming flaw in the products. GreyNoise has recorded two significant scanning spikes in late August, with up to 25,000 unique IP addresses probing ASA login portals and also Cisco IOS Telnet/SSH. The second wave, logged on August 26, 2025, was largely (80%) driven by a Brazilian botnet, using roughly 17,000 IPs. In both cases, the threat actors used overlappi

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Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:24:33

September 8, 2025 Have you heard of 996? It’s the demanding work schedule that calls for working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week. Apparently, it’s the new thing in the San Francisco tech scene, and it’s all anyone can talk about (search Twitter). So far, this has been a story based on vibes, not data. But I looked at Ramp transaction data and found 996 is real. San Francisco-based employees are increasingly working on Saturdays, and it’s already showing up in spend trends. The chart above

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How a legacy hardware company reinvented itself in the AI age

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-10-19 05:00:19

picture alliance/Contributor/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Behind-the-scenes providers such as Cisco keep the cloud and internet alive. The 40-year-old company now positions itself as an AI infrastructure vendor. The challenge: proactively supporting millions, if not billions of devices worldwide. It's the nature of the market beast -- think about all the formerly booming tech providers that have disappeared

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The Wild, Citywide Scavenger Hunt That Ate San Francisco

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-21 14:00:00

On a Wednesday night in August, hundreds of people gathered in the lobby of Apple Cinemas in central San Francisco. To gain admission to the event, attendees had to say a secret code word to the crew working the door: three giggling children wearing oversize “SECURITY” caps. The throng inside hunted for QR codes on the walls and admired a makeshift art gallery that showcased a collection of paintings, each referencing a famous historical work—Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, Munch’s The Scr

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Global Salt Typhoon hacking campaigns linked to Chinese tech firms

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-25 01:34:04

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and partners from over a dozen countries have linked the Salt Typhoon global hacking campaigns to three China-based technology firms. According to the joint advisories [NSA, NCSC], Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong Information Technology Co., and Sichuan Zhixin Ruijie Network Technology Co. Ltd. have provided cyber products and services to China's Ministry of State Securi

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FBI warns of Russian hackers exploiting 7-year-old Cisco flaw

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-03 23:04:08

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical infrastructure organizations in attacks exploiting a 7-year-old vulnerability in Cisco devices. The FBI's public service announcement states that the state-backed hacking group, linked to the FSB's Center 16 unit and tracked as Berserk Bear (also known as Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, and Koala Team), has been targeting Cisco networking devices usi

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Cisco patches critical security hole in Firewall Management Center - act now

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-13 03:52:05

Olemedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center security hole is as bad as they get. There is no mitigation and no workaround. Patch immediately. So far, no confirmed active exploits have been confirmed. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Do you use Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software? If your company operates a serious network usi

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Cisco warns of max severity flaw in Firewall Management Center

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-14 08:57:45

Cisco is warning about a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the RADIUS subsystem of its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. Cisco FCM is a management platform for the vendor’s Secure Firewall products, which provides a centralized web or SSH-based interface to allow administrators to configure, monitor, and update Cisco firewalls. RADIUS in FMC is an optional external authentication method that permits connecting to a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

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Cisco reports narrow earnings beat, issues inline forecast for the year

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-16 22:22:16

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins speaks at the Business Roundtable CEO Workforce Forum in Washington on June 17, 2025. Cisco reported results on Wednesday that narrowly exceeded analysts' expectations and issued quarterly guidance that was also better than expected. Here's how the company did in its fiscal fourth quarter comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: 99 cents adjusted vs. 98 cents expected 99 cents adjusted vs. 98 cents expected Revenue: $14.67 billion vs. $14.62 billion expecte

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The Real Origin of Cisco Systems (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 22:48:15

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

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The Real Origin of Cisco Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 04:48:15

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

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The Origin of Cisco Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 04:48:15

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router. Tom Rindf

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Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 08:28:10

Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system. “Our investigation has determined that the exported data primarily consisted of basic account profile information of individuals who registered for a user account on Cisco.com,” the company disclosed. Information included names, organization names, addresses, Cisco assigned user I

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Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-05 22:03:03

A cybercriminal tricked a Cisco representative into granting them access to steal the personal information of Cisco.com users, the company said on Tuesday. Cisco said it discovered the breach on July 24, blaming the incident on a voice phishing or “vishing” call. The hackers accessed and exported “a subset of basic profile information” from the database of a third-party cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system, according to the company’s disclosure. Cisco said that the stolen

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Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 12:17:12

Cisco has disclosed that cybercriminals stole the basic profile information of users registered on Cisco.com following a voice phishing (vishing) attack that targeted a company representative. After becoming aware of the incident on July 24th, the networking equipment giant discovered that the attacker tricked an employee and gained access to a third-party cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system used by Cisco. This allowed the threat actor to steal the personal and user infor

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Fast (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 03:19:43

Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in 2001. It opened in 2022, yielding a project duration of around 7,600 days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said Paul Rose, a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson. The project cost $346 million, i.e. $110,000 per meter. The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, c

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Tesla’s ‘robotaxi’ rides in San Francisco have a human at the wheel

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-13 12:20:52

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Tesla’s newly-launched ride-hailing service in San Francisco isn’t quite ready for the “robotaxi” designation. After launching its robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, with a “safety monitor” in the passenger seat last month, a video of Tesla’s service in San Francisco shows a vehicle arriving with a human at the wheel, as reported earlier by Business I

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Exploit available for critical Cisco ISE bug exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 22:29:23

Security researcher Bobby Gould has published a blog post demonstrating a complete exploit chain for CVE-2025-20281, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). The critical vulnerability was first disclosed on June 25, 2025, with Cisco warning that it impacts ISE and ISE-PIC versions 3.3 and 3.4, allowing unauthenticated, remote attackers to upload arbitrary files to the target system and execute them with root privileges. The issue stems fr

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Cisco: Maximum-severity ISE RCE flaws now exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-02 08:40:08

Cisco is warning that three recently patched critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) are now being actively exploited in attacks. Although the vendor did not specify how they were being exploited and whether they were successful, applying the security updates as soon as possible is now critical. “In July 2025, the Cisco PSIRT became aware of attempted exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities in the wild,” reads the updated advisory. “Cisco c

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Max severity Cisco ISE bug allows pre-auth command execution, patch now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-10 03:53:26

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-20337) in Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) could be exploited to let an unauthenticated attacker store malicious files, execute arbitrary code, or gain root privileges on vulnerable devices. The security issue received the maximum severity rating, 10 out of 10, and is caused by insufficient user-supplied input validation checks. It was discovered by Kentaro Kawane, a researcher at the Japanese cybersecurity service GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae, and report

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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in 3 US States—but Not for Ride-Hailing

wired.com Paresh Dave 2026-01-26 23:28:41

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road … well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of the vehicles as it seeks to develop new driver-assistance technologies. This week, WIRED spotted a GM Bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In each instance, the car was being driven by a human. But it held equipment on

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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in Three US States—But Not for Ride-Hailing

wired.com Paresh Dave 2026-02-03 17:28:41

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road… well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of the vehicles as it seeks to develop new driver-assistance technologies. This week, WIRED spotted a GM Bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In each instance, the car was being driven by a human. But it held equipment on

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Cisco warns that Unified CM has hardcoded root SSH credentials

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-08 17:08:24

Cisco has removed a backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), which would have allowed remote attackers to log in to unpatched devices with root privileges. Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly known as Cisco CallManager, serves as the central control system for Cisco's IP telephony systems, handling call routing, device management, and telephony features. The vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2025-20309) was rated as maximum severity, and it is caused

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Cisco warns of max severity RCE flaws in Identity Services Engine

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-19 22:20:56

Cisco has published a bulletin to warn about two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). The flaws, tracked under CVE-2025-20281 and CVE-2025-20282, are rated with max severity (CVSS score: 10.0). The first impacts ISE and ISE-PIC versions 3.4 and 3.3, while the second affects only version 3.4. The root cause of CVE-2025-20281 is an insufficient validation of user-supplied

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Enterprises must rethink IAM as AI agents outnumber humans 10 to 1

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2026-02-22 17:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Stolen credentials are responsible for 80% of enterprise breaches. Every major security vendor has converged on the same conclusion: Identity is now the control plane for AI security. Scale alone demands this shift. Enterprises managing 100,000 employees will handle more than one million identities when AI agents enter production. Traditi

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Best Internet Providers in San Francisco

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 17:46:00

What is the best internet provider in San Francisco? According to CNET broadband experts, Sonic is the best internet service provider in San Francisco. It offers speeds up to 940Mbps and zero data caps for just $50 a month. But if that doesn't persuade you, there are alternatives. Verizon 5G Home Internet, AT&T Fiber and Xfinity are widespread and varied in the area, so if you just miss Sonic's catch area, check out these three ISPs. For residents looking for a more affordable plan, we recomme

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Latest Tech News

Waymo obtains permit to test robotaxis at San Francisco International Airport

Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO

All Systems Go at SFO

OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

How a legacy hardware company reinvented itself in the AI age

The Wild, Citywide Scavenger Hunt That Ate San Francisco

Global Salt Typhoon hacking campaigns linked to Chinese tech firms

FBI warns of Russian hackers exploiting 7-year-old Cisco flaw

Cisco patches critical security hole in Firewall Management Center - act now

Cisco warns of max severity flaw in Firewall Management Center

Cisco reports narrow earnings beat, issues inline forecast for the year

The Real Origin of Cisco Systems (1999)

The Real Origin of Cisco Systems

The Origin of Cisco Systems

Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

Fast (2019)

Tesla’s ‘robotaxi’ rides in San Francisco have a human at the wheel

Exploit available for critical Cisco ISE bug exploited in attacks

Cisco: Maximum-severity ISE RCE flaws now exploited in attacks

Max severity Cisco ISE bug allows pre-auth command execution, patch now

GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in 3 US States—but Not for Ride-Hailing

GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in Three US States—But Not for Ride-Hailing

Cisco warns that Unified CM has hardcoded root SSH credentials

Cisco warns of max severity RCE flaws in Identity Services Engine

Enterprises must rethink IAM as AI agents outnumber humans 10 to 1

Best Internet Providers in San Francisco

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