Intel Corp.’s Mobileye division today announced plans to launch driverless delivery trucks by 2023 in partnership with autonomous vehicle delivery company Udelv Inc. Under the partnership, Mobileye’s self-driving system, known as Mobileye Drive will provide the autonomous driving technology for Udelv’s next-generation electric self-driving delivery vehicle known as the “Transporter.” The first Transporters are expected ...

A newly discovered flaw in the Facebook Inc.-owned messaging app Whatsapp can allow an attacker to suspend an account using only a user’s phone number. The proof of concept, developed by researchers Luis Márquez Carpintero and Ernesto Canales Pereña and first reported April 10 by Forbes, involves a wannabe hacker installing WhatsApp on a new ...

Hackers are targeting other hackers once again. This time, the details of user data and more than 600,000 credit cards from the darknet payment card marketplace Swarmshop were stolen and then posted on a rival underground forum. First reported by Threat Intelligence Analyst Sergei Kokurin from threat Group-IB Group Pvt. Ltd. under the apt heading ...

Israeli digital forensics startup Cellebrite DI Ltd. is the latest company set to go public via a special-purpose acquisition company through a merger with TWC Tech Holdings II Corp. in a deal that values the company at about $2.4 billion. The deal involves Cellebrite obtaining $580 million, comprised of TWC Tech Holdings’ cash held in ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security today added seven Chinese supercomputing entities to its Entity List for conducting activities that are contrary to national security and foreign policy interests. The entities added to the list, which prevents them from obtaining advanced technologies developed in the U.S. without special permission, are Tianjin Phytium ...

Facebook Inc. and its services including Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram suffered a brief downtime around 5:30 p.m. EDT today. According to the downtime site Down Detector, the first reports of Instagram being down started at 5:13 p.m. EDT with a peak at 5:28 p.m. The last reports on the site were at 7:03 p.m., although ...

Google LLC today outlined a range of new compliance and security certifications for Google Cloud as part of a commitment to act as a “security transformation partner and to be the most trusted cloud.” The new certifications include the addition of Cloud DNS to Google Cloud’s list of Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program compliant ...

Global venture capital investments hit $125 billion in the first quarter, the first time the figure has surpassed $100 billion in a quarter, according to new data published today by Crunchbase. The $125 billion invested in the quarter was up 50% over the fourth quarter of 2020 and up 94% from the first quarter of 2020. ...

Twitter Inc. held acquisition talks with audio-based social app Clubhouse in a deal that would have valued the company at $4 billion, Bloomberg reported today. The talks are described as having taken place in recent months but are no longer ongoing. Why the talks didn’t progress further is unknown. Founded in March 2020, Clubhouse is an ...

Australian graphic design tool startup Canva Pty. Ltd. said today it has raised $71 million in new funding on a $15 billion valuation, making it the largest startup to come from the country since Atlassian Corp. plc. The round was led by T. Rowe Price and Dragoneer and included Blackbird Ventures and Skip Capital. Founded in 2012, Canva is a ...