A new guide describes how the autonomous vehicles will react with police vehicles and first responders. …read more Source:: CNet

An investigation by Italy’s competition authority has found that software updates “significantly reduced performance” on Samsung’s Android handsets and iPhones. From a report: Apple and Samsung are being fined Euro 10m ($11.4m) and Euro 5m ($5.7) respectively in Italy for the “planned obsolescence” of their smartphones. An investigation launched in January by the nation’s competition…

Respondents disagree on whom an autonomous car should kill in the event of an unavoidable crash. …read more Source:: CNet

The command line. You either love it or hate it, but if you do anything with a Unix-like system you are going to have to use it eventually. You might find marker — a system billed as a “command palette for the terminal” — a useful program to install. We couldn’t decide if it was…

Would madam care for native support for SAM in madam’s pipeline? As the march to the cloud continues, the Jenkins project has tossed developers a bone in the form of a plugin for AWS serverless functions.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Law enforcement requests numbers stayed the same at the global level, but saw a spike in the US. …read more Source:: ZDNet

NBC News Signal would be the third digital news network from a broadcast giant, after CBS and Fox. …read more Source:: CNet

The model numbers could refer to the new Macs being announced on Oct. 30. …read more Source:: CNet

In a speech discussing ethics and the Internet, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has tasked the technology industry and its coder army with paying continuous attention to the world their software is consuming as they go about connecting humanity through technology. From a report: Coding must mean consciously grappling with…

The social media company is testing conversation starters, color-coding conversations and status indicators. …read more Source:: CNet