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Recycling cars’ lithium batteries is more complicated than you might think

Enlarge / Challenges scale considerably when the battery pack weighs 300kg. (credit: City of San Diego)
Lithium batteries have become incredibly popular for electronic devices, and the emphasis on weight and size for those batteries means that the amount
Tech-support scammers used data stolen by Trend Micro employee
Technical-support telephone scams have been around for a long time, with …
How terrible software design decisions led to Uber’s deadly 2018 crash

Radar in Uber’s self-driving vehicle detected pedestrian Elaine Herzberg more than five seconds before the SUV crashed into her, according to a new report from the National Safety Transportation Board. Unfortunately, a series of poor software
AT&T makes customers work to get refunds they should get automatically
AT&T kept charging DirecTV customers for a sports channel that was blacked out for two months and …
Breaking the law: How 8chan (or “8kun”) got (briefly) back online
The successor to 8chan, 8kun, made a somewhat brief appearance on the public Internet thanks to what amounts to an attack on the Internet’s routing …
Customers rave about Model 3 in new Bloomberg survey

Enlarge / A truck full of Model 3 cars. (credit: Andrei Stanescu / Getty)
An impressive 99.6% of Tesla Model 3 customers describe the vehicle as a pleasure to drive, Bloomberg reports in a new survey. The first
Tipped off by an NSA breach, researchers discover new APT hacking group
With a tip that came from one of the biggest breaches in US National Security Agency history, researchers have discovered a new hacking group …
8chan gets back online—and is promptly forced off again
8chan was back online this week—albeit with a new name—three months after the site was essentially kicked off the public Internet. 8Chan is now called 8kun and …
Strongly typed documents, move aside—Microsoft Fluid is coming
Microsoft is getting ready to make some extremely big …