Uber's Autonomous Driving Software Under Scrutiny

Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia, those weird text messages a whole bunch of people received overnight, the most powerful desktop CPUs in the world, Ghost Locomotion wants to turn existing cars into autonomous vehicles, Wrench will repair your car on demand, and what smart speaker seems to be unhackable?

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Links:

• Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics (Washington Post)
• Alphabet’s board of directors is investigating executives over inappropriate relationships (CNBC)
• A ton of people received text messages overnight that were originally sent on Valentine’s Day (The Verge)
• AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs (ZDNet)
• Uber faces costly choices after expert finds it uses Waymo self-driving tech (Reuters)
• Ghost raises $63.7 million to develop an aftermarket kit that gives cars self-driving capabilities (VentureBeat)
• Wrench's on-demand vehicle repair and maintenance service picks up $20 million (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Portal survives Pwn2Own hacking contest, Amazon Echo got hacked (ZDNet)

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