Uber does not plan to continue testing autonomous cars in California as it faces fallout from one of its self-driving vehicles killing a pedestrian in Arizona. While Uber announced shortly after the accident that it would suspend its autonomous vehicle testing nationwide, a letter from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) relayed the raid-hailing giant's plans to discontinue testing in California for the foreseeable future. "Uber has indicated that it will not renew its current permit to test autonomous vehicles in California", says a letter from deputy DMV director Brian Soublet to Uber. The company's authority to drive autonomous cars on public roads in California, first granted last March, expires at the end of this month. If it wants to secure a new permit after that, Mr Soublet wrote, the company "will need to address any follow-up analysis to investigations" from the Arizona crash.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. On Monday night, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey rescinded Uber's authority to test autonomous vehicles on the state's streets, following the March 18 crash in Tempe that killed Elaine Herzberg. Uber had already suspended its AV program in the wake of the incident, as it has routinely done after crashes. Since then, the investigation has revealed a safety protocol with more holes than a Scottsdale golf course. Video from the crash revealed that the woman had not come "from the shadows right into the roadway," as Tempe Police Chief Sylvia Moir initially said, but had already crossed several lanes of open, if darkened, asphalt before being hit by the computer-navigated Volvo SUV.

FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 27, 2018 -- GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, today announced the immediate availability of GridGain Professional Edition 2.4, a fully supported version of Apache Ignite 2.4. GridGain Professional Edition 2.4 now includes a Continuous Learning Framework, which includes machine learning and a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network that enable companies to run machine and deep learning algorithms against their petabyte-scale operational datasets in real-time. Companies can now build and continuously update models at in-memory speeds and with massive horizontal scalability. GridGain Professional Edition 2.4 also enhances the performance of Apache Spark by introducing an API for Apache Spark DataFrames, adding to the existing support for Spark RDDs. GridGain Continuous Learning Framework GridGain Professional Edition 2.4 now includes the first fully supported release of the Apache Ignite integrated machine learning and multilayer perceptron features, making continuous learning using machine learning and deep learning available directly in GridGain.

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More than a week after a self-driving Uber hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Tempe, Arizona, the company is facing the consequences. Today, on the orders of Arizona governor Doug Ducey, the Arizona Department of Transportation commanded Uber to suspend its testing of autonomous and highly automated vehicles on the state's roadways. It's an obvious setback for Uber's embattled self-driving program, which does much of its testing in Arizona, but the kibosh job also signals how local and state politicians elsewhere will be looking to control a new technology that comes with the promise of great safety and economic benefits--but also the potential to destroy jobs and, when it fails, to kill. And it's an unexpected blow from Ducey, who until the crash had championed the technology and encouraged companies like Uber to do their testing work in Arizona, where virtually no rules dictate what they can do where and when, and where they face no requirements to report or disclose anything about their programs, including crashes. In 2015, Ducey signed an executive order telling all state agencies to "undertake any necessary steps to support the testing and operation of self-driving cars."

When Mr. Dudley took the helm in 2009, the financial crisis had left the New York Fed's reputation as a regulator damaged. The institution had not done enough to address the severe weaknesses at the banks it oversaw, like Citigroup. Early on, Mr. Dudley commissioned a review of the New York Fed's bank supervision department and then overhauled it. But in 2012, JPMorgan Chase, also overseen by the New York Fed, suffered huge trading losses in what was known as the London Whale scandal. The New York Fed was faulted.

NVIDIA will suspend all of its public road self-driving tests following Uber's fatal accident, a company spokesperson has told Recode. The company supplies chips for Uber's self-driving vehicles and it says that it needs to find out more about last week's crash. "The accident was tragic," a spokesperson said in a statement. "It's a reminder of how difficult [self-driving car] technology is and that it needs to be approached with extreme caution and the best safety technologies." During his keynote today at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, CEO Jensen Huang said the fatal accident reminded the company how important safety is when it comes to this type of technology.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has suspended Uber's ability to test self-driving vehicles in the state following last week's deadly crash. The crash, which occurred late at night in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking her bicycle across a dimly lit city street. In a letter sent Monday to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Ducey called the incident an "unquestionable failure" to meet public safety expectations. ICYMI: Governor @DougDucey's letter to the CEO of Uber suspending the company's ability to operate autonomous vehicles in #Arizona pic.twitter.com/qhYWyEsiiw The local police chief initially called the incident "unavoidable" but sentiment quickly changed after the release of video of the crash.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is to testify before Congress over his social network's role in the harvesting millions of users' data without their knowledge. Zuckerberg turned down a similar request from British MPs to answer questions on the role of the data firm Cambridge Analytica in the US presidential election campaign. But the whistle-blower behind the scandal did agree to give evidence and, in doing so, revealed that the Brexit vote was also subject to manipulation by the firm.

As cyber threats continue to grow in frequency and severity, traditional approaches to security have become less effective. Newer technologies such as layered and endpoint security are coming forward as important ways to shore up defences and prevent headline-grabbing data leaks and ransomware attacks. But what are organisations doing to combat the growing number and complexity of attacks? Here are four key strategies that are leading the battle for cyber threat detection and prevention. Everyone is talking about AI and machine learning, and it can be hard to establish the practical applications around the buzz.