Uber Technologies Inc. has laid off around 185 people, approximately 15% of staff at Postmates Inc. after having finalized its acquisition of the company in December. The New York Times reported that Uber announced the cuts to staff on Thursday, Jan. 21, as part of an effort to consolidate its food delivery operations to weather the pandemic. ...

Apple Inc. has issued a warning that its iPhone 12 range and its MagSafe accessories can interfere with implantable medical devices, potentially making them deadly to users. The problem is that the devices contain magnets and radios that emit electromagnetic fields, which could interfere with pacemakers, defibrillators and other implants. The warning from Apple specifically ...

Audio-based social app Clubhouse said today it has raised new funding from the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz to help the startup scale up by hiring more people and investing in creators. The amount of the Series B round for the company, formally named Alpha Exploration Co., was not disclosed, though a source told Axios it was ...

An advanced threat protection group from China is allegedly targeting Taiwanese companies according to cybersecurity company CyCraft. In a recent report into an APT they dub “Chimera,” researchers at CyCraft claim that the APT, under the name of “Operation Skeleton Key,” has a particular interest in hacking Taiwanese semiconductor companies. Taiwan is, depending on which way ...

Cybersecurity failure presents a major risk facing the world this year and well beyond, according to the Global Risks Landscape 2021 report published by the World Economic Forum. Although infectious diseases, in particular the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic topped the “clear and present dangers” short-term risk (up to two years) chart, cybersecurity failure ranked fourth in a ...

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has released 1.9 million stolen user records from free online photo editing service Pixlr as part of a release of hacked data from various sites. Links to the data stolen from Pixlr were published on a well-known internet hacking forum Jan. 17 and included user login names, email addresses, hashed passwords, ...

A new report from Chainalysis Inc. has found that the use of cryptocurrency for illegal activities dropped significantly in 2020 even as incoming Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen (pictured) is claiming that most cryptocurrencies are used for illicit financing. The Chainalysis 2021 Crypto Crime Report detailed that in a year bitcoin shattered previous price ...

In a surprise move, Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Uber Technologies Inc.’s autonomous vehicle unit who was convicted and jailed for stealing corporate secrets from Alphabet Inc. was pardoned by now-former President Donald Trump on his last day in office. Levandowski was charged with trade secret theft charges in August 2019 following an already lengthy court case ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware strain that was used in the now-infamous hack of SolarWinds Worldwide LLC last year. Detailed Monday by researchers at Symantec, the malware, dubbed “Raindrop,” is a loader designed to deliver a payload of Cobalt Strike. That’s a form of penetration testing software favored by hackers which leaked online in ...

Cisco Systems Inc. has been given approval by China’s State Administration of Market Regulation, the country’s antitrust regulator, to acquire Acacia Communications Inc. Cisco first announced that it was intending to acquire networking chip maker Acadia for $2.6 billion in July 2019 but failed to obtain approval from the Chinese government. Acacia tried to back out of ...