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Nvidia’s AI is helping its engineers to bring better AI to the market faster
Report: FAA Overruled Engineers, Let Boing Max Keep Flying
One engineer made a preliminary estimate that the chance of another Max crash was more than 13 times greater than FAA risk guidelines allow. An FAA official said the analysis “suggested that there was a 25% chance of an accident in 60 days” if no changes were made to the planes. “However, this document was not completed and did not go through managerial review due to lack of detailed flight data,” the report said. FAA officials at headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the agency’s Seattle office opted not to ground the plane. “Instead, they waited for more detailed data to arrive,” the watchdog said in the report, which was made public Friday.
The first Max crash occurred in October 2018 in Indonesia and was followed by the second in March 2019 in Ethiopia. In all, 346 people died. The FAA was the last major aviation regulator to ground the Max — three days after the second crash. The FAA did not let the planes fly again until late 2020, after Boeing altered a flight-control system that autonomously pointed the plane’s nose down before both crashes. The inspector general’s office said the FAA’s caution on grounding the Max fit with its tendency of waiting for detailed data — an explanation that agency officials offered at the time. Still, the watchdog recommended that FAA document how key and urgent safety decisions are made and make several other changes in how it analyzes crashes.
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Engineers added ChatGPT to a robot dog and now it can talk
The ‘Ike Dike’ Is the Army Corps of Engineers’ Largest Project Ever, but It May Not Be Big Enough
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Weights and Biases debuts LLMOps tools to support prompt engineers
Cruz BlenderCap: A Mighty Portable Blender Created By Ex-Apple Engineers
Scooter Startup Lime Sues Hertz For Poaching Engineers
Hertz said in a statement it “vehemently disagrees with the claims made in the lawsuit.” The loss of engineers has “significantly harmed” Lime, which provides short-term e-bike and scooter rentals in about 30 countries. The company said in the lawsuit it now faces “staff shortages, recruiting costs, and critical project delays.” Hertz sought to “capitalize” on Fang and his team’s knowledge of building “back-end infrastructure for ride-sharing and consumer facing apps so that it could gain a competitive advantage over other companies,” according to the complaint.
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Nearly 40% of Software Engineers Will Only Work Remotely
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A Hacker Installed a Keylogger on a LastPass Engineer’s PC to Pwn the Company’s Cloud
Beleaguered password manager LastPass has announced yet another serious security screwup and, this time, it may be the final straw for some users.