Apple Inc. today filed a lawsuit against a former employee, accusing him of passing trade secrets to a member of the media in return for favorable coverage of companies he was involved in. The lawsuit names the former employee as Simon Lancaster, but Lancaster goes by the name of “Simon Lancaster-Larocque (he/him)” on LinkedIn. Lancaster held ...

Epic Games Ltd. has taken its ongoing battle over commissions charged in app stores to Australia, filing a lawsuit claiming that Google LLC is abusing its control over Android. The lawsuit, filed in the Federal Court of Australia and made public today, claims that Google is partaking in anticompetitive behaviors concerning the way apps are ...

Enterprise service mesh startup Tetrate Inc. has raised $40 million in new funding for product development, to support a new software-as-a-service offering, hire more people and expand its global reach. The Series B round was led by Sapphire Ventures and included Scale Venture Partners, NTTVC, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, 8VC and Samsung NEXT. Founded in ...

Despite overtaking Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. globally in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter, sales of Apple Inc.’s iPhones are not meeting sales expectations, prompting the company to cut production on weaker-than-expected demand, according to a new report. Nikkei Asia claims that Apple is slashing the production of its iPhone 12 lineup by around 20%, ...

A vulnerability in an iOS call recording app was found to give access to recorded phone calls by knowing the phone number of a user. Detailed today by Anand Prakash from PingSafe AI, the vulnerability was discovered in an app known as “Automatic Call Recorder” that had been downloaded more than a million times from the ...

Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have shut down an encrypted messaging app and arrested criminals after successfully cracking the encryption used by the app. The app in question goes by the name of Sky ECC made by Sky Global Inc. and is claimed to have become popular with criminals since it launched two years ...

Amazon.com Inc. has been reported to be developing a home robot of some form or another since at least 2018, but exactly what form the robot would take or where it is in terms of development has been open to speculation. A new report today from Business Insider (via Slashgear) says the robot, being developed by ...

Verkada Inc., a Silicon Valley-funded security camera startup, has suffered a data breach with hackers reportedly able to gain access to 150,000 live camera feeds from companies, jails, police departments and schools. The data breach was led by an “international hacker collective” and intended to show the ease with which systems could be broken into, ...

A campaign by Chinese hackers that targeted Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange Server, an attack Microsoft warned about earlier this month, is larger than originally believed and has prompted the establishment of an emergency task force. The vulnerabilities are being exploited by a group dubbed Hafnium, which is described as being “highly skilled and sophisticated.” The group ...

Bitcoin technology and financial services firm NYDIG Execution LLC said today it has raised $200 million in new growth funding to help it fund business initiatives relating to bitcoin. The growth capital round was led by Stone Ridge Holdings Group, Morgan Stanley, New York Life, MassMutual, Soros Fund Management and FS Investments and included Bessemer Venture Partners and FinTech ...