It only took a couple inches of tape. Yes, two McAfee researchers, armed only with some black electrical tape, managed to trick a 2016 Tesla TSLA, +8.29% into a dangerous burst of acceleration by changing a speed limit sign from 35 m.p.h to 85 m.p.h. Appar…
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Month: February 2020
Market Extra: Why an ‘everything rally’ has some stock-market investors fearing how it will end
What happens when everything rises all at once? Thats what some investors are scratching their heads about as they look out at the current landscape on Wall Street. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.50%, the S&P 500 SPX, +0.58%…
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Market Extra: Cracks in the $1.3 trillion auto-finance market aren’t curbing investor demand for risky debt
It is boom time for junk-rated slices of subprime auto-bond deals. Auto-loan delinquencies may have approached crisis-era levels recently, but that hasnt put the brakes on demand for riskier slices of subprime auto-loan bond deals. New subprime auto bonds …
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Test Confirms A Tesla Can Be Fooled Into Speeding In A Hilariously Dumb Way
Computers are absolutely, unquestionably amazing, incredible things that have radically transformed the entire human experience, and will very likely continue to do so. The progress thats been made on systems to drive cars via computers over the past decade h…
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Equity shot: What’s going on with Tesla’s stock price?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is the first Equity Shot in what feels like a long time, so, let me explain. Most of the time Equity comes out on Friday. It…
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