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Submission + - Man Says Tesla Autopilot Saved His Life By Driving Him To The Hospital (cnbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Last month a man sent an email to Elon Musk explaining how his Tesla Model S with Autopilot activated may have saved a pedestrian's life. Now, it appears Autopilot may have saved the life of a Tesla Model X driver. CNBC reports: "A Missouri man says his Tesla helped saved his life by driving him to the hospital during a life-threatening emergency. Joshua Neally is a lawyer and Tesla owner from Springfield, Missouri, who often uses the semi-autonomous driving system called Autopilot on his Tesla Model X. The system has come under fire after it was involved in a fatal Florida crash in May, but Neally told online magazine Slate that Autopilot drove him 20 miles down a freeway to a hospital, while Neally suffered a potentially fatal blood vessel blockage in his lung, known as a pulmonary embolism. The hospital was right off the freeway exit, and Neally was able to steer the car the last few meters and check himself into the emergency room, the report said."

Submission + - The F-35 is So Stealthy it Produced Training Challenges (airforcetimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Reporting for Air Force Times Phillip Swarts writes, "The F-35 Lightning II is so stealthy, pilots are facing an unusual challenge. They're having difficulty participating in some types of training exercises, a squadron commander told reporters Wednesday. During a recent exercise at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, F-35 squadrons wanted to practice evading surface-to-air threats. There was just one problem: No one on the ground could track the plane. 'If they never saw us, they couldn’t target us,' said Lt. Col. George Watkins, the commander of the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The F-35s resorted to flipping on their transponders, used for FAA identification, so that simulated anti-air weapons could track the planes, Watkins said."

Submission + - Older Workers Adapt To New Technology Just Fine, Survey Finds (cio.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Those older workers in your office, you know, the one ones you think can't handle dealing with new technology? Turns out, they struggle less with technology than their millennial colleagues. A survey by London-based market research firm Ipsos Mori, sponsored by Dropbox, found that older workers are less likely to find using technology in the workplace stressful and experience less trouble working with multiple devices than the younger cohort. The reason for this might lie in all the clunky old technologies older workers have had to master over the decades. Digital Natives don't know how good they've got it.

Submission + - Google Cloud Allows Customer-Generated Encryption

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Google cloud platform, Google Compute Engine, now allows customers to create their own encryption keys as an alternative to the Google-provided default encryption. Google Compute Engine automatically encrypts all data at rest, managing customer data encryption as a part of the Compute Engine service. However, some customers prefer to manage and control cloud encryption internally, to further tighten data security. Google has released a comprehensive set of instructions for a customer to create their own encryption key. The Customer-Supplied Encryption Key (CSEK) is then used to protect the Google-generated keys that are used automatically for data encryption. The CSEK is an additional layer of protection for data stored in the cloud. Using an internally-generated encryption key also allows customers to control data encryption without using third-party providers, whose services are available at an additional cost.

Comment GitLab is open source, hosted and self-hosted opts (Score 4, Informative) 99

Perhaps they should consider GitHub, which IS open source (except for some Enterprise Edition specific features that they charge for). Users can run GitLab Community Edition themselves on their own machines, or use the hosted gitlab.com version (like github.com).

https://about.gitlab.com/

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