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Lyft’s AI ‘Earnings Assistant’ offers ideas about how drivers can make more money
Lyft has launched “Earnings Assistant,” an AI chatbot tool for drivers seeking to “optimize their time on the road.” With it, drivers can create plans based on information about things like airport arrivals or local events, announced Jeremy Bird, EVP of driver experience at Lyft in an email to The Verge. The Earnings Assistant feature is in early access, and…
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Nvidia’s GPU drivers are a mess
Nvidia’s GPU drivers have been a disaster over the past four months. It all started when Nvidia released its drivers for the RTX 50-series cards in January, and introduced black screen issues, game crashes, and general stability problems for new and existing graphics cards. Now, yet another new hotfix has emerged to fix even more issues introduced by Nvidia’s buggy…
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How to Stop Windows 11 From Auto-Installing Device Drivers
If Windows 11 installs buggy drivers or you prefer installing device drivers manually, I’ll show you how to prevent your system from automatically finding and installing the connected devices’ drivers. Know This Before Disabling Auto-Installation of Device Drivers Before you turn off automatic installation and updates of your device drivers, know that this comes at a cost. First, your connected…
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Hertz confirms customer info, drivers’ licenses stolen in data breach
Car rental giant Hertz Corporation warns it suffered a data breach after customer data for its Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands was stolen in the Cleo zero-day data theft attacks. “On February 10, 2025, we confirmed that Hertz data was acquired by an unauthorized third party that we understand exploited zero-day vulnerabilities within Cleo’s platform in October 2024 and December…
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GrubHub data breach impacts customers, drivers, and merchants
Food delivery company GrubHub disclosed a data breach impacting the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers, merchants, and drivers after attackers breached its systems using a service provider account. “Our investigation found that the intrusion originated with an account belonging to a third-party service provider that provided support services to Grubhub,” the company said on Monday. “We immediately…
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4 Ways to uninstall drivers on Windows 11
To uninstall drivers on Windows 11, open Device Manager, right-click the driver, and choose “Uninstall device.” Alternatively, open Settings > Apps > Installed apps, select the device driver, and click “Uninstall.” You can also open Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall a program, select the component to remove, and click “Uninstall.” Finally, you can also remove some drivers using the…
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FTC orders GM to stop collecting and selling driver’s data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking action against General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary, OnStar, for unlawful collection and selling drivers’ precise geolocation and driving behavior data from millions of vehicles. The U.S. government organization proposes a settlement in which the automotive giant will be barred from sharing drivers’ sensitive data for five years. The car maker also has…
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Allstate car insurer sued for tracking drivers without permission
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Allstate and its data subsidiary Arity for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling driving data from over 45 million Americans. The two companies are accused of paying millions of dollars to app developers to embed tracking code in widely used mobile apps to gather the location and movement data of people…
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macOS bug lets hackers install malicious kernel drivers
Apple recently addressed a macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass System Integrity Protection (SIP) and install malicious kernel drivers by loading third-party kernel extensions. System Integrity Protection (SIP), or ‘rootless,’ is a macOS security feature that prevents malicious software from altering specific folders and files by limiting the root user account’s powers in protected areas. SIP allows only Apple-signed…
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Best and Worst Cars for Tall and Short Drivers
A handful of cars are especially versatile and rated very highly by both tall and short testers, but that’s rare. And there are several models that serve neither tall nor short drivers well, such as the Mazda MX-5 Miata, Jeep Wrangler, and Lucid Air. Bear in mind that some models give drivers space at the expense of back-seat passengers. It’s…
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