Uber fires CSO, says in Oct '16 personal info of 50M riders, 7M drivers, including 600K driver's license numbers, stolen; Uber paid hackers $100K to delete data
Company paid hackers $100,000 to delete info, keep quiet — Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and another exec ousted
FCC unveils its plan to repeal net neutrality rules, a move that would give ISPs broad powers to determine which websites and online services customers use
and Every Day—We Fight to Defend the Open Internet Mallory Locklear / Engadget : What to expect from the FCC's net neutrality proposal Denelle Dixon / The Mozilla Blog : Statement on FCC proposal to r...
Sources: Kalanick and CSO Joe Sullivan ordered $100K ransom to be paid; Uber tracked the hackers, pushed them to sign NDAs, disguised the payment as bug bounty
SAN FRANCISCO — In November 2016, Uber executives faced an expensive — and risky — decision.
Sources: Apple acquired Vrvana, Canadian augmented reality headset startup, for $30M
As Apple reportedly ramps up work to ship an augmented reality headset in 2020, it has acquired a startup from Montreal, Canada that could help it get there. TechCrunch has learned that Apple has acq...
NY AG says the FCC has ignored multiple requests for logs and records amid NY's investigation of the flood of fake net neutrality comments to the federal agency
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman revealed today that his office has been investigating a flood of spam FCC comments …
HPE says its CEO, Meg Whitman, will step down next year and remain on the board; President Antonio Neri will take over as CEO on February 1, 2018
- President Antonio Neri will take on the role of CEO as of Feb. 1, 2018, and both Whitman and Neri will be on the board.
FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws
Double win for ISPs: No more net neutrality, and state laws will be preempted. — In addition to ditching its own net neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission also plans to tell state ...
New York attorney general launches investigation of Uber's $100,000 hack cover-up
The revelation that Uber concealed a major 2016 data breach affecting 57 million users and paid hackers to destroy the evidence is yet another PR nightmare from Uber's darkest era, but it's also a maj...
French asset manager Tobam launches Europe's first bitcoin mutual fund, which is classified as an alternative investment fund and not traded on an exchange
A small Paris-based asset manager has launched Europe's first bitcoin mutual fund in a move intended to draw institutional investor interest …
UK government debuts Autumn Budget with new tech-focused initiatives: looser rules for testing self-driving cars, AI advisory body, £2.5B+ investment fund, more
With the UK government continuing to face down criticism over how it is handling plans to remove the UK from the European Union …
California DMV website shows Lyft has secured a permit to test self-driving cars
Lyft is the latest company to get a permit from the to test self-driving cars on California's public roads, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles website.
Orient Hontai Capital scraps plans to acquire mobile ad startup AppLovin for $1.4B after US government pushback, will provide $841M in debt financing instead
(Reuters) - AppLovin has tweaked a $1.4 billion agreement to sell itself to Chinese buyout firm Orient Hontai Capital into a debt investment …
Redesigned YouTube app returns to Amazon Echo Show after being pulled in September, with videos playing in what looks like a simple web wrapper
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Google starts contributing to Apple's Swift programming language, submits pull request for adding Fuchsia OS support
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Bitfinex's inadequate disclosures of 2016 hack and unclear ownership links to Tether, issuer of popular coins used to buy bitcoin, raise doubts about exchange
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Russia says it could act against Google if Sputnik, RT get lower search rankings, after Eric Schmidt said “those kinds of websites” should have less prominence
Salesforce reports Q3 revenue of $2.68B, up 25% YoY, vs $2.65B est, as Sales Cloud revenue reaches $907M; ends quarter with 28,527 employees, up from 23,939 YoY
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FTC says it's reviewing TripAdvisor's business practices, as more travelers say their warnings of rapes and injuries at hotels were blocked or deleted from site
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Ads for housing that exclude demographics are still being approved by Facebook, a year after a study highlighted the illegal discriminatory practice on Facebook
Why There's Nothing to Fear With the End of Net Neutrality Richard Nieva / CNET : Facebook still allowing discriminatory housing ads Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company : Facebook's ad platform still...
EU agrees to abolish geoblocking restrictions on some goods on e-commerce sites by end of 2018; proposal excludes copyrighted content like streaming services
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has agreed a plan obliging online retailers operating in the bloc to make electrical goods … Tweets: @johnmu Tweets: @johnmu : Interesting EU plans: “Companies ...
CEO of popular app HQ Trivia, Rus Yusupov, repeatedly told reporter that the app's star host, a contractor, could be fired for talking to press, then denied it
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Colorado fines Uber $8.9M after investigation found Uber allowed drivers with suspended or revoked licenses and felony convictions
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How AI is being used to identify Chinese missile launch sites with 90% accuracy, on par with experts, reducing time spent searching from 60 hours to 42 minutes
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Nvidia-Backed Chinese Autonomous Truck Technology Firm TuSimple Raises $55M In Series C Round
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