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BMW and Qualcomm announce jointly developed driver assistance system

Qualcomm's driver-assistance system Snapdragon Ride Pilot will debut on the BMW iX3 electric SUV, offering hands-free highway driving, automatic lane changes and parking assistance. The jointly developed software stack announced today will be powered by Snapdragon Ride system-on-chips and will make its first formal appearance at IAA Mobility 2025. Snapdragon Ride Pilot is a Level 2+ driver-assistance system, not self-driving, which means drivers will still be responsible for supervising the veh

Using Your Phone on Toilet May Give You Hemorrhoids: Study

Of all the crappy ways smartphones have affected our health, this one is a real kick in the pants. A first-of-its-kind study links excessive scrolling on the phone while sitting on the toilet with hemorrhoids. (Insert poo emojis.) But, seriously. Sitting on an open bowl offers no support for the pelvic floor. That puts pressure on veins in the rectum, making them swollen and inflamed. “The longer you sit on the toilet, the worse it is for you,” said Dr. Trisha Pasricha, director of the Beth

Darth Vader’s Lightsaber Sets New Sale Record at Sci-Fi Movie Auction

How much would you be willing to pay for Darth Vader’s lightsaber from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi? For at least one lucky fan, the answer was more than $3.65 million. The lightsaber sold for a cool $3,654,000 on Thursday—a record for a Star Wars item sold at auction. It sold as part of the first day lots of Propstore’s Los Angeles Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction and is the only hero lightsaber across the two films “with verifiable screen use ever” to ever come to public a

The Galaxy Tab S11 family is here, but should you upgrade from your older Galaxy tablet?

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority While many of us still upgrade smartphones every 2–4 years on average, tablets tend to have a much longer shelf life. They’re typically used less often and for narrower purposes like video consumption or light productivity. With the arrival of the Galaxy Tab S11 and Tab S11 Ultra, you might be wondering whether now is finally the right time to replace your aging Galaxy tablet. The answer here isn’t so cut and dry. It’s really less about age and more about whe

Critical SAP S/4HANA vulnerability now exploited in attacks

A critical SAP S/4HANA code injection vulnerability is being leveraged in attacks in the wild to breach exposed servers, researchers warn. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-42957, is an ABAP code injection problem in an RFC-exposed function module of SAP S/4HANA, allowing low-privileged authentication users to inject arbitrary code, bypass authorization, and fully take over SAP. The vendor fixed the vulnerability on August 11, 2025, rating it critical (CVSS score: 9.9). However, several systems h

Heap-based buffer overflow in Kernel Streaming

Reading Time: 4 minutes From time to time, while digging through internals during our research, we stumble upon quirks or vulnerabilities that, although not immediately useful for operations or exploitation, are still noteworthy. Rather than letting these findings fade away, we decided to responsibly disclose them to the vendor. One such case is CVE-2025-53149, a heap-based buffer overflow in the Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver, which Microsoft patched on August 12, 2025. The vulnera

Do Self-Driving Cars Need Windshield Wipers?

Donald Trump is all about propping up big businesses (small businesses, not so much) and cutting regulations. Lately, his administration has decided to dispense with certain long-established regulatory precedents for the sake of making things a little bit easier on the blossoming self-driving car industry. On Thursday, Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Sean P. Duffy, announced that, next year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will be rolling out three new rules designed to “mo

Samsung's Newest AI Promises: Big Energy Savings, Strange Smart Displays and More

Samsung arrived at Berlin's IFA event with not one, not two but three different AIs to talk about in its AI Home: Future Living, Now exhibit. The brand has been hard at work expanding its definition of AI (even if some references stretch the term to its breaking point), and now has several big promises for the smart home and Samsung appliances. There were updates on the latest Galaxy AI, of course, but as smart home editor, I was especially struck by what Samsung has in mind for its home-orient

64% of People Still Don't Want a Foldable Smartphone, CNET Survey Finds

Foldables have been a staple of the smartphone release cycle for years now, with products from companies such as Samsung, Motorola and Google. Despite the refreshingly unique form factor in a sea of mobile uniformity, the vast majority of consumers still aren't sold. According to a CNET survey, 64% of respondents say they aren't willing or interested in buying a foldable smartphone in the next year, while just 13% say they are. An additional 20% aren't sure if they want a foldable and only 3% s

Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Can AI help “smooth over” discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta. De

Tesla Makes a Huge Move to Appease Regulators

Tesla appears to be bending to the will of regulators. In a visible sign of its shifting posture from daredevil innovation to cautious compliance, Tesla this week relocated its robotaxi safety monitors, employees who supervise the autonomous software’s performance and can take over the vehicle’s operation at any moment, from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat. Tesla’s Robotaxi service represents one of the company’s most ambitious and long-delayed projects. First teased by Chief Executiv

All the Top New Gadgets We Saw at IFA Berlin 2025

Every September, hundreds of thousands of visitors descend upon Berlin for IFA, one of the largest trade tech conferences in Europe. IFA heralds the unofficial start of Techtember, when companies launch products in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. For over 100 years, companies, financiers, and journalists have crossed the Spree and eaten cold liver sausage for breakfast, just to check out the latest innovations in consumer electronics. This year, those attendees include me and Gear

SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

SAP says it will pump €20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants. The Germany-based enterprise software biz is looking to provide sovereign infrastructure for the public sector and regulated environments, said Thomas Saueressig, board member for customer services and delivery. Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty READ MORE "With our expanded SAP S

Qualcomm teams up with BMW for hands-free driving

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Qualcomm is joining forces with BMW on a new driver-assist system that will allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel on approved roads. Qualcomm, which supplies infotainment, driver-assist, and telematics systems to a variety of

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra $300 off, but only in these two colors

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung’s most exciting phones right now include foldables, flip phones, and a super-thin phone. These are cool, but if you want true performance and an overall premium experience, you can’t beat the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. We would argue it is still Samsung’s best phone, and you can often catch better deals on it. It’s currently as cheap as $999.99, which is a $300 discount. Buy the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra for just $999.99 ($300 off) This offer is available

Apple has reportedly launched an AI chatbot, but it's not for the iPhone 17 (or you)

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has reportedly launched an AI chatbot for its retail staff. Asa is intended to be an automated digital sales assistant. The chatbot arrives just weeks before the launch of iPhone 17. Apple has reportedly launched a new AI chatbot -- for its employees, not for its customers. Nicknamed Asa, the chatbot is designed to serve as an automated digital assistant for the company's retail staff, maki

Type-safe and user-friendly error handling in Swift 6

Learn how to implement user-friendly, type-safe error handling in Swift 6 with structured diagnostics and a hierarchical error model. Swift 6 brings an exciting new feature to the language: typed throws. This change makes error handling in Swift much more type-safe, allowing us to define exactly what kinds of errors a function can throw. It’s a small change on the surface, but it opens the door to writing cleaner, more reliable code. Now, you might be wondering — how do we actually use this in

OpenAI is going big in India — here's everything the ChatGPT developer is up to

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the annual Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, California on June 02, 2025. OpenAI is rapidly expanding its presence in India — one of the key markets for its flagship ChatGPT product. India is an appealing destination for U.S. tech giants, with companies ranging from Google to Meta betting on its huge — and young — population over recent years. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited the country in February this year and met with the country's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishn

Samsung unveils 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD - and the heatsink will cost you extra

Samsung 8TB 9100 Pro SSD Samsung/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways An 8TB PCIe SSD that's offered with or without a heatsink. Read and write speeds of up to 14,800 and 13,400 MB/s, respectively. Perfect for laptops and desktop with PCIe 5.0, and PlayStation 5. Looking for an 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD? Well you're in luck, because Samsung has announced an 8TB variant of its excellent 9100 Pro M.2 2280 SSD. But such an impressive SSD is going to come wi

A Spaceship Crew Faces Doom in This Surprisingly Tender Sci-Fi Story

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by Kel Coleman. Enjoy! Last Meal Aboard the Awassa by Kel Coleman Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and the gesture it represented soothed her after a long,

Apple Music Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify Now. Here's Why You May Want To

Apple Music app customers woke up to a new feature last week, although not many know it exists yet. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It

The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.

Wednesday’s discovery of three mis-issued TLS certificates for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 encrypted DNS lookup service generated intense interest and concern among Internet security practitioners. The revelation raised the possibility that an unknown entity had obtained the cryptographic equivalent of a skeleton key that could be used to surreptitiously decrypt millions of users’ DNS queries that were encrypted through DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS. From there, the scammers could have read queries or

Get Ready to Marathon ‘The Twilight Saga’ on YouTube, Loca

The millennial internet’s vampire and werewolf boyfriends are back to celebrate the young adult romantasy’s cinematic debut 15 years ago. The films propelled current Batman Robert Pattinson into superstardom alongside indie darling Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Lionsgate had already announced a re-release for The Twilight Saga in theaters; to go with that, there’s now an internet streaming event, starting September 7. First up is the YouTube marathon for the chronically online fan, where

Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops nearly 5% on weak guidance

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped nearly 5%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 27%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the

Waymo to begin testing at San Jose airport this fall

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test-driving robotaxis at its first California-based airport, the company said Thursday. The autonomous car unit has been cleared to begin testing driverless rides at the San José Mineta International Airport in San Jose, California, this fall. Waymo said it plans to offer paid rides at the airport later this year. "With San José at the epicenter of the biggest sporting events of 2026,

Pour one out for the Galaxy Note line as updates come to an end

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has finally ended software support for the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra. The August 2025 patch was their final update, leaving them on One UI 5.1. Fans say they’ll keep using the phones, but the Note line is now officially over. The Galaxy Note series was iconic in its day, but time waits for no device, and now the last models have finally been cut off. Samsung has stopped supporting the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra, with the August 202

Got a great browser interoperability idea? Apple wants to hear from you

Entries are now open for Interop 2026, a yearly effort where anyone, from users to web developers, can submit their best ideas to improve cross-browser interoperability. Here’s how to participate. Interop started in 2022, when Apple, Bocoup, Google, Italia, Microsoft, and Mozilla came together “to commit to improve interoperability in 15 key areas that will have the most impact on web developer experience.” The project, which stemmed from Google’s Compat initiative, gained enough traction to b

Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform

Sesame Street creator Sesame Workshop and YouTube have announced a new "extended partnership" that will bring episodes of the iconic children's show to the platform and a series of workshops for creators on "how to create content that is entertaining while also promoting learning." This new YouTube partnership joins an existing Netflix deal to stream new episodes of Sesame Street starting in November. According to YouTube, it'll now have a catalog of "hundreds of full episodes" of the show, on

Samsung unveils 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD - and the heatsink will cost you extra!

Samsung 8TB 9100 Pro SSD Samsung/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways An 8TB PCIe SSD that's offered with or without a heatsink. Read and write speeds of up to 14,800 and 13,400 MB/s, respectively. Perfect for laptops and desktop with PCIe 5.0, and PlayStation 5. Looking for an 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD? Well you're in luck, because Samsung has announced an 8TB variant of its excellent 9100 Pro M.2 2280 SSD. But such an impressive SSD is going to come wi