Tesla says California implicitly approved the 'Autopilot' name

<p>The EV company run by Elon Musk was accused by California's Department of Motor Vehicles of falsely advertising its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features as providing autonomous vehicle control.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report...pilot-name

2024 Volkswagen ID.3 GTX electric hot hatch spotted

Volkswagen's ID.3 electric compact hatch sold overseas is about to spawn a new performance range topper to be called the ID.3 GTX, and a prototype has been spotted again. The GTX badge is used for the most powerful all-wheel-drive variants in VW's ID family of electric vehicles. It's already used on the ID.4 and related ID.5 compact crossovers...


https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1140...-spy-shots

Ford, VW latest to explore bidirectional charging on EVs

With bidirectional charging, an electric vehicle has the potential to save its owner money on their home energy bill. With the right setup, an EV's battery can be charged during off-peak hours, when energy costs are lower, and then called on during those peak hours when prices rise. Even more can be saved when combined with a home solar...


https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1141...ing-on-evs

VW in talks with Renault for low-cost EV, paper says

<p>The two automakers target combined annual production of 200,000 to 250,000 for a low-cost EV to challenge Chinese rivals, business daily <em>Handelsblatt</em> said.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts/v...ese-rivals

Grand theft auto? Not if wholesale vehicle auctions can help it

<p>Wholesale auctions can be a target-rich environment for vehicle parts purloiners. Here are some of the best practices managers of wholesale auctions and auction groups have put in place to stop thefts – sometimes before they even start.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/used-cars/car-a...rts-thefts

November U.S. new-vehicle inventories grew to highest level since early spring 2021

<p>Inventory in the U.S. grew to its highest level since early spring 2021.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/sales/us-novemb...25-million

Musk appeals dispute over 'funding secured' consent decree to Supreme Court

<p>Tesla's CEO asked the justices to hear his appeal of a lower court's decision that upheld the decree, which arose from his August 2018 post on Twitter that he had 'funding secured' to take his company private.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/executives/elon...reme-court

Cantin: Amazon partnership may boost Hyundai dealership popularity

<p>Dave Cantin thinks the Hyundai-Amazon partnership benefits the automaker, dealers and consumers.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/retail/hyundais...antin-says

Researchers Unveal GuLoader Malware's Latest Anti-Analysis Techniques

Threat hunters have unmasked the latest tricks adopted by a malware strain called GuLoader in an effort to make analysis more challenging.
"While GuLoader's core functionality hasn't changed drastically over the past few years, these constant updates in their obfuscation techniques make analyzing GuLoader a time-consuming and resource-intensive process," Elastic Security Labs

https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/resear...wares.html

SLAM Attack: New Spectre-based Vulnerability Impacts Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs

Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have disclosed a new side-channel attack called SLAM that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from kernel memory on current and upcoming CPUs from Intel, AMD, and Arm.
The attack is an end-to-end exploit for Spectre based on a new feature in Intel CPUs called Linear Address Masking (LAM) as well as its analogous

https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/slam-a...based.html