Felony charges filed in Autopilot crash, Instagram tests paid subscriptions

Speaker 1: This is CNET. And here are the stories that matter right now, California prosecutors have filed what appear to be the first felony charges in the us against a motorist using a partially automated driver assistant system. The Los Angeles county district attorney's office is charging the driver of a Tesla involved in a fatal 2019 collision with two counts of vehicular manslaughter. Two people died in the crash, which occurred when the defendant ran a red light while using Tesla's autopilot [00:00:30] feature. Tesla does not operate a public relations department to field requests. For comment, Instagram is testing paid subscriptions with a small select group of info influencers. The feature would allow creators to charge fans a monthly fee for access to exclusive content and a badge next to their username. Identifying them as a subscriber influencers will be able to set their own custom subscription fee ranging from $1 to $100 a month in an effort to encourage creators [00:01:00] to use the feature that company also says it won't take any cut of subscription revenues until 2023 at the earliest. And finally, president Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a memorandum to improve online security measures for the government's most sensitive computer networks. The memo directs and intelligence gathering agencies like the NSA to at or exceed the cyber defenses of federal civilian networks. The document authorizes practices common in the business world like [00:01:30] encryption cloud technologies and multifactor authentication in an effort to close cyber security gaps and prevent vulnerabilities. Speaker 1: Stay up to date with the latest by visiting CNET.