Hackers breach Dallas warning system, repeatedly sounding all of the city's 156 emergency sirens
Officials in Dallas said the city's warning system was hacked late on Friday night, disrupting the city when all 156 of its emergency sirens sounded into the early hours of Saturday morning.
Flipkart raises $1.4B from Tencent, eBay, and Microsoft at $11.6B post-money valuation, down from its $15.2B valuation in May 2015, and acquires eBay India
India's largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has announced a $1.4 billion fundraise from new investors Tencent …
Minecraft is adding a new marketplace with its own currency this spring, where creators can monetize their original content
Microsoft Corp. is adding a new marketplace — and a brand new currency — within the video-game Minecraft, opening up the opportunity for businesses to sell …
UK payday lender Wonga says personal data of up to 270K customers may have been stolen in a data breach
Personal details from hundreds of thousands of accounts may have been illegally accessed, admits payday lender — More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga …
LiveJournal updates terms of service to conform with Russian law, which limits political and pro-LGBTQ talk, after relocating servers from US to Russia in Dec.
LiveJournal, a blog community that's hosted a lot of science fiction authors and fans (including George RR Martin) …
Microsoft to buy Kubernetes container-orchestration vendor Deis
Containers, containers, containers: Microsoft is buying Deis, a San Francisco-based Kubernetes orchestration specialist for an undisclosed amount. — Microsoft is buying Kubernetes container-orchestr...
Volkswagen invests $180M in Chinese AI startup Mobvoi's Series D, to create a 50:50 joint venture with a voice operated rear-view mirror as an initial product
In a further sign of China's technological advancement, Volkswagen Group China, a subsidiary of German automotive giant Volkswagen Group …
Sources: Foxconn indicates a preliminary bid for Toshiba's chip business of about $27B; SK Hynix Inc. and chipmaker Broadcom also make bids
Toshiba Corp. and the Japanese government want to sell the company's semiconductor business to a domestic buyer, but foreign bidders are proving …
Months after failing to sell NSA hacking tools, The Shadow Brokers hacking group publicly releases the alleged exploits
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Valens, designer of HD content transmission chips, raises $60M from Israel Growth Partners, Samsung, MediaTek, others to expand into auto industry
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Cancellation of FCC's ISP privacy rules drives Virtual Private Network adoption, but VPNs can have privacy issues of their own
If you're most people, you just found out about the FCC's internet privacy rules by way of their untimely demise. Thanks to the FCC's new chief, Congress …
Shenzhen, home to companies like Huawei and DJI, challenges the “copycat China” myth as it becomes a global hub of innovation in hardware and manufacturing
ON A RECENT weekend several hundred academics and lawyers gathered in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen for a discussion on … Tweets: @janchip and @kimmaicutler Tweets: Jan Chipchase / @janchip : “Silicon ...
Data center arms race: top cloud computing firms Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft spent a combined $31.5B in 2016 on capital expenses and leases, up 22% from '15
Top three cloud-computing firms have spent $31.5 billion in 2016 on capital expenses and leases Tweets: @mdcarlson Tweets: Mark D. Carlson / @mdcarlson : “Combined, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet dole...
A look at professional hackathon competitors who subsist on winnings from hackathon events held by corporations like IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft
Peter Ma looked around his San Francisco condo and realized he'd won everything in it. His flat-screen TV, home theater system, 3D printers … Tweets: @pocket , @jimatstate , and @ellenhuet . Thanks: ...
Projection mapping startup Lightform teases a device that can use a normal projector to project images onto irregular surfaces
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