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Math That Helped Solve Fermats Theorem Now Safeguards the Digital World – The New York Times

Defenses against digital snoopers keep getting stronger. Encryption is what keeps communications safe when you use Signal and other messaging apps, make online financial transactions, buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and trust that private information in your Apple iPhone will stay private.

While a variety of end-to-end encryption techniques seek to protect the flows of information from spies and eavesdroppers, one of the most powerful and ubiquitous is elliptic curve cryptography, invented in 1985. The methods underlying math helped solve the famous riddle of Fermats last theorem and was promoted by the charitable foundation of James M. Vaughn Jr., an heir to oil riches. In the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. Vaughn funded experts who pursued knotty questions of mathematics that were assumed to have no practical value.

Mr. Vaughns funding of Fermat studies backed the investigation of elliptic curves as a possible solution. The obscure branch of mathematics turned out to beget a new generation of powerful ciphers in particular, elliptic curve cryptography.

In his 2009 autobiography, Random Curves, Neal I. Koblitz, a University of Washington mathematician who aided Mr. Vaughn and was one of two inventors of the technique, described its biggest friend as the National Security Agency. An arm of the Pentagon, the N.S.A. works to strip governments of their secrets while concealing its own. It relies heavily on elliptic curve cryptography.

In an interview, Mr. Vaughn said N.S.A. officials sent math experts to the conferences he sponsored. They always had people there, he recalled.

Of course, digital thieves are trying to undo the decades of encryption strides with new kinds of spyware and cyberweapons. Public encryption has become so powerful that the hackers often try to seize control of smartphones and steal their data before its been scrambled and securely transmitted.

In public talks, Andrew Wiles, an Englishman who solved the Fermat puzzle, has seldom spoken of cryptography. In 1999, however, he touched on the topic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in describing recent math advances.

Dr. Wiles now teaches at the University of Oxford, which in 2013 opened a $100 million building named after him. Officials from Britains equivalent of the N.S.A. the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, are no strangers to the Andrew Wiles Building.

In 2017, for instance, two officials from GCHQ gave talks there. They were Dan Shepherd, a researcher who helped uncover a major vulnerability in a proposed cipher, and Richard Pinch, the agencys head of mathematics.

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Network security gets a boost in Windows Server 2022 – TechTarget

Cyber attacks spring from every conceivable angle in the data center, but multiple improved and new Windows Server 2022 network security features aim to thwart these breach attempts.

The last several years have seen numerous data breaches across organizations of all sizes, underscoring the need for better network security. Due to the prominence of Windows Server as a key component in enterprise infrastructure, it's critical to implement any means at the administrator's disposal to reduce the chance of falling victim to an intrusion. For organizations that want to improve their defensive posture, using Windows Server 2022's improved network security features can help limit their exposure to a wide range of attacks.

In addition to its secured-core server defensive measures, one of the biggest security improvements Microsoft added to Windows Server 2022 is native support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3, which was released in 2018. This latest version of the protocol used to encrypt network traffic addresses the vulnerabilities found in TLS 1.2 and provides better performance, particularly during the handshake process.

Microsoft enabled TLS 1.3 by default in Windows Server 2022, but the operating system can still use earlier TLS versions to accommodate incompatible clients.

HTTP has been around since 1989. Developed to transfer content from the World Wide Web to clients, its creators might not have foreseen the rapid pace of its adoption. The last major update to HTTP in 2016 addressed security and performance concerns and now the third revision HTTP/3 has been implemented in Windows Server 2022.

HTTP/3 is currently in development but is already in use by Google and Facebook. HTTP/3 uses the QUIC transport protocol based on the User Datagram Protocol. In addition to better performance, HTTP/3 uses encryption by default to maintain a secure connection.

Enabling HTTP/3 requires adding the following registry key:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetservicesHTTPParameters" /v EnableHttp3 /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Microsoft recommends administrators configure the Windows Web service to advertise the availability of the service via HTTP/3. Clients that connect with an older protocol will be notified of HTTP/3 support and switch to the more secure protocol. To enable HTTP/3 advertisement, add the following registry key:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetservicesHTTPParameters" /v EnableAltSvc /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Reboot the server to make the registry keys take effect.

Microsoft enhanced Windows Server 2022 network security with support for Secure DNS, which is an industry standard that goes by a variety of other names such as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).

DoH keeps DNS queries private. If someone monitors network traffic, they will see DNS queries being made, but the contents of those queries will be hidden. Some organizations use Secure DNS to conceal their online activities from the ISP. Secure DNS can also help to prevent DNS manipulation attacks.

Organizations should consider whether it is in their best interest to use Secure DNS. While there are security benefits, Secure DNS can also make it more difficult to detect malicious activity from the network because it will mask DNS queries generated by those attacks.

SMB encryption encrypts Server Message Block (SMB) traffic across the network. SMB is the protocol that Windows devices use to access Windows file shares. SMB is also commonly used for connectivity to NAS appliances and other storage arrays.

Microsoft added SMB encryption to Windows Server 2012 and enhanced it in Windows Server 2022 by adding support for both AES-256-GCM and AES-256-CCM encryption.

Admins turn on SMB encryption from the Windows Admin Center by connecting to the server hosting an SMB share, clicking on Files and File Sharing, followed by the File Shares tab. From there, select the share to encrypt and check Enable SMB encryption.

To do the same procedure but from PowerShell, enter the following command to use SMB encryption on a Windows file share:

Set-SmbShare Name -EncryptData $true

When using SMB encryption, understand the difference between enabling and requiring SMB encryption. Enabling means clients that connect to an SMB share will use encryption if possible while requiring SMB encryption will reject any non-encrypted connections.

Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 are currently the only Windows operating systems that support AES-256 encryption. Older Windows clients that connect to an SMB share hosted on a Windows Server 2022 host will revert to an older encryption standard, such as AES-128.

Windows Server 2022 also supports SMB encryption for east-west traffic, which refers to the SMB traffic that flows between Windows failover cluster nodes and a cluster shared volume. If the failover cluster uses Storage Spaces Direct, then this option allows the encryption of cluster communications for better overall security.

The easiest way to force a cluster node to encrypt all SMB traffic is to enter the following command into PowerShell:

Set-SMBServerConfiguration -EncryptData $True -Force

Verify the operation was successful by checking the EncryptData value after running the Get-SMBServerConfiguration command.

Microsoft developed support for encryption with SMB Direct in Windows Server 2022. This protocol uses Remote Data Memory Access (RDMA) to transfer large amounts of data without the CPU overhead normally required for these types of operations.

In previous Windows Server versions, enabling SMB encryption disabled direct data placement, which resulted in significantly slower SMB Direct performance making it on par with a normal SMB session. Microsoft addressed this issue in Windows Server 2022 to give organizations high-speed encrypted transfers by encrypting the data prior to placement. While the encryption process does require some CPU resources, the performance impact is typically very minor.

Microsoft covers these SMB improvements at the following link.

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Southeast Asia Web Hosting Services Market SWOT Analysis, Competitive Landscape and Massive Growth 2021 | Amazon Web Services, AT & T, Google,…

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Global Southeast Asia Web Hosting Services market is segmented based by type, application and region.

Based on Type, the market has been segmented into:by Product (Web-Site Builders, Shared Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Collocation Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Cloud Hosting), By Organization Size (Small, Medium and Large enterprises), By Countries (Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Rest of Southeast Asia)

Based on application, the market has been segmented into:By Application (IT & Telecom, BFSI, Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Government & Utilities, Retail, Consumer Electronics and Others)

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1. Which segments will perform well in the Southeast Asia Web Hosting Services market over the forecasted years?

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5. How share market changes their values by different manufacturing brands?

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Chapter 1: Market Overview, Drivers, Restraints and Opportunities, Segmentation overview

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Chapter 3: Production by Regions

Chapter 4: Consumption by Regions

Chapter 5: Production, By Types, Revenue and Market share by Types

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Chapter 8: Manufacturing cost analysis, Raw materials analysis, Region-wise manufacturing expenses.

Chapter 9: Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers

Chapter 10: Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders

Chapter 11: Market Effect Factors Analysis

Chapter 12: Market Forecast

Chapter 13: Southeast Asia Web Hosting Services Research Findings and Conclusion, Appendix, methodology and data source.

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5 tips to help you in your next cloud computing job interview – Siliconrepublic.com

Hays Christine Wright gives her top tips for tech professionals looking to sell themselves in a cloud computing interview.

Cloud computing is a very well-paid industry, with professionals potentially earning more than 60,000 per year in the UK and around $100,000 in the US according to the Hays salary guide and with demand for such roles increasing greatly in recent years.

The pandemic is also accelerating the number of cloud migrations, further increasing demand for a host of IT cloud jobs. This trend shows no signs of stopping.

With this level of demand, now is the perfect time for many tech professionals to start applying for cloud computing jobs. But if you do not have much experience in the cloud, how can you stand out from the crowd during a job interview?

Every company has a reason to migrate to the cloud. But if you can position yourself as a candidate who understandswhya cloud migration is important to an organisation, this exhibits your wider knowledge.

Remember, every company is at a different stage of its cloud migration. While81pc of companieshave at least one application running on the cloud, most are still developing their cloud migration strategies. However, the majority of businesses will also know what they want to get out of the cloud even if they are still not sure how to get there.

Thats where you come in. If you can link your previous tech roles to the wider enterprise, you are clearly demonstrating that you understand the big picture. It also shows that youre a well-rounded candidate who is willing to adapt to the business, which is another important skill to emphasise.

During any interview, you are usually asked about your qualifications and career development plans. This is your opportunity to not just reel off a list of exam results and past projects, but to also demonstrate your knowledge of the latest cloud computing advancements.

So, before your job interview, ensure youve researched the industry thoroughly. You can then use this research to structure your responses to any questions about your continuous education and professional development.

If youre moving from a role as a solutions architect to a cloud solutions architect, for example, try to demonstrate and explain how you have prepared for this shift. You may have taken on additional responsibilities in your current role or completed a continuous education course, for example.

This prep would certainly be worth your while. An AWS/Azure cloud architect earnsmore than 100,000on average per year in the UK. And in the US, a cloud solutions architect could earn around$150,000. Whereas an infrastructure architect earns around 83,000 in the UK.

Cloud-based applications development is a growing field and one that is attracting a lot of talented software developers. During an interview, it is important to highlight your understanding of developing applications specifically for the cloud.

To start, you must be familiar with a range of cloud platforms and understand the implications of designing a tool with scalability in mind. Also, while a cloud-based app can technically be unlimited in size, remember cloud hosting is not free. So, data size optimisation and condensed user requests could help, for example. And dont forget to brush up on your cloud security knowledge, too.

Cloud-native development also covers emerging development areas such as containers, continuous delivery, orchestration and microservices. Even if you are still developing your skills in this space, it is important to show your awareness and understanding as much as possible.

If you are unsure on the technical details, focus instead on how such areas can help the business and show your willingness to learn.

Cloud DevOpsis an emerging area where cloud computing and DevOps are both essential for any digitisation initiative. Now, cloud professionals often find themselves working under a DevOps methodology.

DevOps essentially empowers developers to respond to the business in near real time. In other words, your development efforts are highly accelerated. The centralised nature of the cloud provides DevOps efforts with a standard platform for development, testing and production. As such, the cloud and DevOps are often intrinsically linked.

During your interview, it is important to have an understanding of DevOps and demonstrate your familiarity with some best practices in this space. You may want to ask questions about how the organisation embraces DevOps practices, for example, to further showcase your knowledge.

Multi-cloud initiatives are growing in popularity and, as a result, there is now demand for tech professionals that can work across multiple vendors, developing cloud-agnostic tools.

If you want to demonstrate your expertise in this area, you could work towards a certification in AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or another popular cloud platform. Then, learn how other organisations manage their workloads across multiple clouds.

The world has changed a lot in recent times, massively accelerating many organisations digital transformation efforts. This has provided tech professionals with the perfect opportunity to explore new skillsets and careers.

Cloud computing is an area that is predicted to grow and grow in the years ahead. And if you can market yourself effectively, you could secure one of these highly lucrative and in-demand cloud jobs.

By Christine Wright

Christine Wright is senior vice-president of Hays US. A version of this article previously appeared on the Hays Technology blog.

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Global Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market Size, Share, Trends and Future Growth Predictions till 2026 – Get News Alert

Global Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market Research Report 20202025 is a historical overview and in-depth study on the current & future market of the Health Care Cloud and Hosting industry. The report represents a basic overview of the market status, competitor segment with a basic introduction of key vendors, top regions, product types and end industries. This report gives a historical overview of the market trends, growth, revenue, capacity, cost structure, and key drivers analysis.

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This report studies the top producers and consumers, focuses on product capacity, production, value, consumption, market share and growth opportunity in these key regions, covering

On the basis of product, this report displays the production, revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type, primarily split into

On the basis of the end users/applications, this report focuses on the status and outlook for major applications/end users, consumption (sales), market share and growth rate for each application, including

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Chapter 1 Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market OverviewChapter 2 Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market Segment Analysis by PlayerChapter 3 Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market Segment Analysis by TypeChapter 4 Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market Segment Analysis by ApplicationChapter 5 Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market Segment Analysis by Sales ChannelChapter 6 Health Care Cloud and Hosting Market Segment Analysis by RegionChapter 7 Profile of Leading Health Care Cloud and Hosting PlayersChapter 8 Upstream and Downstream Analysis of Health Care Cloud and Hosting Chapter 9 Development Trend of Health Care Cloud and Hosting (20202025)Continued

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Daily Crunch: Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover tries to get his BharatPe CEO removed from board – TechCrunch

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One recent survey of sales and marketing professionals found that only half of respondents said they were likely to attend an event in H1 2022.

Traditionally, companies hold in-person sales kickoffs (SKOs) in January and February to brief sales teams about new products and devise strategies. Today, those convention centers and hotel ballrooms are dark and quiet.

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If you lead a sales team, this post shares strategies for finding a theme that reflects your goals, as well as advice on scheduling and tips on ways to express your company culture.

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How to evaluate the transition to Cloud MIS – Technology Magazine

The technology exists for educational MIS tools to make the essential move away from desktop and into the cloud. However, a staggering 70% of school IT systems (consisting of MIS software and data hosting) still run on desktop solutions that are essentially locked away in a room. While these tools may be deemed adequate by some, their desktop nature means educators cannot benefit from connected and real-time data.

Being tethered to desktop MIS software has many limitations, including having to use valuable resources to host, manage and secure the systems. The old ways of running schools kept data out of the hands of the people who needed it and has created a significant admin burden for teaching staff today, who have to duplicate data entry across different systems.

Educators do not have the ability to quickly fulfil the information needs of stakeholders (i.e. governors, parents, pupils, teachers) and waste considerable time trying to organise data into something meaningful.

The technology exists to bring real-time MIS data together into a connected cloud system. Absence data can be collected at registration and dealt with in real-time. Every teacher has a central, holistic view of each child and can join up the dots on changes in behaviour, wellbeing and safeguarding. Attainment and progression can be contextualised and even scrutinised taking other factors into account. Educational leaders are able to look at and for trends in the numbers.

Preconceptions around technological change are that it is scary and hard. However, schools that have already made the switch successfully demonstrate the many practical actions that can be taken to make the process as painless as possible. Heres four principles to consider.

Its easy to get caught up in complex change management models and a mindset of feeling the need to hire expensive consultants when switching. However, the successes of those who have already made the move to the cloud prove that it is possible to take more pragmatic and cost-effective steps to managing change.

Create collateral to support internal communications, building a champion group to evangelise about the change and providing learning opportunities for team members. These are powerful and straightforward actions that can be taken to ease cultural fears and get the process on track.

Champion groups should be formed from across an entire school or MAT and comprise a diverse range of people rather than just early adopters and power users. These individuals will be ambassadors, so they should be involved in decisions and given appropriate bandwidth to perform their champion role.

It is the softer side of change that is important to get a handle on, which is why internal communications plays a pivotal role. Have a clear communications plan with a regular drumbeat of outreach using a variety of different mediums. Cloud MIS vendors are starting to support schools with these vital internal communications efforts. Some provide posters, tutorial-style videos and raise awareness. These focus on the benefits at an individual level.

Internal communications vehicles can also be used to celebrate successes and achievements during the transition. This is a great way to motivate stakeholders to try new ways of doing things and reinforce the necessity to change. If there are fears around change, this should be dealt with head-on through two-way communication and engaging everyone in decision-making. This provides opportunities for concerns to be discussed honestly.

Teachers are drawn to the profession to inspire and teach students, not to fulfil admin requirements. The UK is facing the largest skills shortage for generations. According to ONSs latest labour market statistics, recruitment difficulties are persisting as open vacancies rocket to record highs. Employers are having to fight harder for every candidate, and no one wants to lose quality teaching staff. If a teacher has been empowered through modern technology before, they will be horrified to have to revert back to a desktop world of work.

Sticking with desktop technology may therefore make it harder to retain key staff and attract younger teachers, who may be digital natives themselves and are likely to be more aware of what cloud technologies can bring.

Cloud-based systems offer internal messengers, planners and registrations while tools like voice-to-text dictation remove the pain of term-end reporting. Live notifications mean no more needless notes, errands or calls and vendors are working hard to deliver a superior, consumer-grade user experience; the standard younger generations now expect in all aspects of their daily lives.

Choosing the right technology partner is key to dealing with the scale of the task. Fully explore with them how the new solution will work in practice. For example, it should support ease of use, streamline workflows and provide access for all stakeholders. It should also connect data silos, providing a rich flow of information throughout the school and a real insight into what is going on. Schools generate a great deal of information and school leaders need to have this information in their hands, in an easy to consume format.

In the case of MATs, where infrastructure around change is likely to require diverting critical peoples time, and in worst-case scenarios, educators away from what they are supposed to be doing, it is essential to get the planning right. Choose a technology partner capable of supporting you through this. One that has the resources to take the role of change management hand holder.

Vendors should also have the experience and scale to bring in resources to support implementations, especially if requirements change or something doesnt quite go to plan.

You dont have to go on the journey to changing vendors on your own. IT Support Providers play a key role in supporting schools in evaluating their options. They have deep expertise and provide advice as well as high-quality support.

Working with these providers allows schools and MATs to benefit from knowledge across the whole community. They have a great skillset and a wealth of users stories to draw on.

MIS Support Units like SBS and iCT4, for example, are on a quest to transform the classroom through technology. Computeam is another organisation that Schools and MATs trust to deliver future-proofed, cloud solutions that make a positive impact on school life, whether in the classroom or outside of it.

The demands on teaching staff and governors are increasing, so there is an opportunity cost to not moving to cloud MIS software. Indeed, our recent data shows that 90% of schools are expected to do more with less funding.

There is no doubt that the pandemic has further exacerbated the admin burden on teaching professionals who must report on increased absence, deliver lessons remotely and play a more active role in the pastoral care of students; all alongside fulfilling Ofsted and School Workforce Census requirements.

Cloud MIS tools free up teachers time so it can be spent on the things that matter the most; the students. To me this offers schools the ability to change their whole environment; picking out those repetitive, non-value added tasks and giving time back to teachers. The wider societal impact this could have is huge.

The requirement of MATs and schools having to analyse data to provide insights about the performance of pupils and operational effectiveness is also a particular challenge. 43% of teaching staff list this as the most significant issue they currently face and 90% of school leaders now say report data and analysis is a huge issue impacting their workload.

Remaining on desktop solutions makes data analysis harder, with educators having to use valuable time moving around sensitive data manually. We dont want to see schools manipulating data in spreadsheets, when there is such a powerful alternative.

The richness of data that cloud software brings ranges right across the school day, from joining the dots on pupil safeguarding concerns in real time, through to maximising school assets. The ability to host this data in the cloud, and then interrogate it quickly and easily, means that those schools without this capability will be left with a huge disadvantage.

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Citrix acquired by private equity, will be paired with Tibco in $16.5bn deal – The Register

Citrix is to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital in a deal worth $16.5bn. The move will see Citrix taken into private ownership and combined with Tibco, another firm already in Vista's portfolio.

Under the terms of the agreement announced today, Citrix shareholders will receive $104 per share, a price which represents a premium of 24 per cent over the over the closing price on December 20, the last trading day before rumours began to leak regarding a potential takeover.

Citrix also put out its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2021 today, reporting revenue of $851m compared to $810m for the same quarter in 2020, representing 5 per cent growth.

Citrix is one of the veterans of the IT industry, pioneering remote desktop access for applications hosted on Windows server in the 1990s, before expanding into other areas of the application delivery stack.

Vista and Evergreen have stated their intention to combine Citrix with Tibco Software, a business intelligence and enterprise data management firm, one of Vista's portfolio companies. However, Citrix will continue to operate under the Citrix name and brand.

Post-acquisition, the pair will be positioned to provide "complete, secure and optimised infrastructure for enterprise application and desktop delivery and data management to advance hybrid cloud IT strategies and meet the needs of the modern enterprise," according to a statement by the companies.

The interim CEO for Citrix Bob Calderoni claimed that as a private company, it will have increased financial and strategic flexibility to invest in high-growth opportunities such as desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and accelerate its ongoing cloud transition.

"Together with Tibco, we will be able to operate with greater scale and provide a larger customer base with a broader range of solutions to accelerate their digital transformations and enable them to deliver the future of hybrid work," he said.

Calderoni has been interim CEO since October last year, when the previous incumbent David Henshall suddenly stepped aside from the role.

Tibco CEO Dan Streetman said that: "There has never been a better time to be in the business of connected intelligent analytics," and added that his firm was "thrilled to bring our industry-leading solutions to Citrixs global customers."

Detailing the reasons for the acquisition, Vista managing director John Stalder explained that Citrix and Tibco provided mission-critical software and services to many the world's most successful businesses, and he saw value in combining their respective portfolios.

This time last year, Citrix bought Wrike, a project management and team-based collaboration tool, for $2.25bn. Vista was the seller in that deal.

"Both businesses have now completed transitions to approximately 90 percent recurring revenue, poising the go-forward combined business to drive future growth," Stalder purred.

The transaction has apparently been unanimously approved by members of the Citrix board of directors, and is expected to close mid-year.

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Tesla to disable ‘self-driving’ feature that allowed vehicles to roll past stop signs at junctions – The Register

Tesla will switch off a feature in its Full Self-Driving software, present in more than 50,000 vehicles in the US, that allowed the cars and SUVs to roll past stop signs at junctions without coming to a halt.

Aerial view of an all-way stop

According to recall documents on America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website [PDF], Tesla has agreed to disable the feature via an over-the-air (OTA) software update. It is expected to begin deploying the update to affected vehicles in the next week or so.

It appears Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Beta) software included a feature that emulates driver behavior found to be common in some places in the US, but which is also against the law in most if not all states.

This is the practice of slowing to a crawl at a junction, and not actually coming to a complete halt. Instead, the driver is able to pick up speed again if the way is clear.

However, the NHTSA has taken the view that failing to halt for a stop sign at junctions could increase the risk of a crash, and sought meetings with Tesla to get it to change this feature. According to the documents, this covers the 2016-2022 Model S and Model X, 2017-2022 Model 3, and 2020-2022 Model Y vehicles.

The Associated Press reports that Selected Tesla drivers are effectively being allowed to beta test the Full Self-Driving software on public roads, as long as the owner enables the function.

Once enabled, the Tesla would be able to go through an all-way stop junction without coming to a complete halt. It would have to be traveling below 5.6 MPH (9 KPH) while approaching the junction, so long as no moving cars, pedestrians or bicyclists are detected nearby.

The incident is just the latest in the long-running saga of Tesla and its driver assistance software support. Last month, a Tesla driver was charged with vehicular manslaughter after a crash in Los Angeles in which the vehicle's Autopilot mode was engaged.

Last year, five police officers filed a lawsuit against Tesla after a Model X ploughed into two parked police cars in Texas, and Tesla was forced to pull the Full Self-Driving software from vehicles that were testing it after a number of issues were found.

Tesla has previously insisted that its vehicles are not capable of fully autonomous driving: "The currently enabled Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."

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