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An Avride autonomous vehicle at the Nvidia booth during the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it is opening an investigation into a series of crashes involving startup Avride’s autonomous vehicles that raised questions about their performance.NHTSA said the vehicles’ behavior may indicate excessive assertiveness and insufficient capability, which “may also constitute traffic safety violations.” Some of the crashes resulted in property damage and one reported minor injury.NHTSA said the vehicles had executed lane changes into other vehicles…

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Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructure said it temporarily took Canvas offline on Thursday after identifying unauthorized activity in its network. The threat actor was the same one responsible for a data breach that Instructure disclosed a week ago. Data accessed included user names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform. The company said it has no indication…

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The fastest-growing ETF in years is the latest AI play to go skyward – in more ways than one.Roundhill Investment’s Memory ETF (DRAM) tracking the red-hot memory sector has raised more than $5 billion since its April 2 launch, including $1.1 billion on Thursday alone. It started out of the gates red hot, garnering $1 billion its first 10 days of trading, a milestone that trails only the big bitcoin ETFs rollout three years go and the debuts of iShare’s popular ‘LQD’ bond fund, the staple GLD gold ETF from SPDR, and JP Morgan’s BBCA Canadian equity fund, according to…

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Trump has made it clear that he is not happy about court-ordered refunds, which some businesses should start receiving next week, Reuters reported. Last month, he cheered news that Apple and Amazon had yet to request refunds, which CNBC reported was due to fears of “offending” Trump. Deeming that response a sign that those companies understood the way Trump operates, he said, “I’ll remember” any companies that “honor” him by letting the US keep the unlawfully collected IEEPA tariffs. Ars could not reach Apple or Amazon to clarify their positions on IEEPA tariff refunds. Most likely, Trump is relieved that…

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SHENZHEN, CHINA – APRIL 12: A Chinese national flag is seen in the foreground with container ships, cranes, and stacked shipping containers at the Yantian International Container Terminal under cloudy skies, on April 12, 2025 in Shenzhen, China. (Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesChina’s export growth gathered pace in April as factories raced to meet a wave of overseas orders from buyers seeking to stockpile components amid fears the Iran war could push global input costs even higher.Exports expanded 14.1% from a year earlier in U.S. dollar value terms, customs data showed on…

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“This is not COVID. This is not influenza. It spreads very, very differently,” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s acting director for epidemic and pandemic management, emphasized in a press briefing Thursday. Given the nature of this virus and the precautions and monitoring already in place, “the risk of widespread transmission to the general public is extremely low,” Michael Marks, an infectious disease expert and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said in a statement Thursday. The comments echo a reassuring risk assessment on Wednesday from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which elaborated that even…

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