Days after it was revealed that Uber Technologies Inc. confidentially filed to go public, the ghost of mismanagement past has come back to haunt it: a fatal accident involving a self-driving vehicle in March. The Information Monday published an email sent by Robbie Miller, then a manager in Uber’s testing-operations group, to Uber executives and lawyers. ...

Leading Chinese cryptocurrency hardware maker and miner Bitmain Technologies Inc. has closed its Israeli research and development office as the cryptocurrency crash continues to hammer all leading players. The Bitmain Israel office opened in 2016 and was tasked with exploring meaningful use cases of blockchain technology as well as working on artificial intelligence technology. At the ...

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released a report on the hack of credit reporting agency Equifax Inc., finding that the company didn’t take basic security measures that may have prevented the hack. Equifax first reported that it had been hacked in September 2017, saying that the records of 143 million people had been ...

The days of Slack dominating the workplace collaboration market may be over, as a new poll finds that Microsoft Corp.’s Teams has passed it in popularity. The finding comes via a survey of 901 organizations undertaken by Spiceworks. The poll found 21 percent of businesses now use Microsoft Teams in their workplace, versus only 15 ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has followed in the footsteps of rival Lyft Inc., filing for a confidential initial public offering, according to an unconfirmed report. The New York Times, referencing two people with knowledge of the matter, claimed Friday that Uber confidentially filed its IPO paperwork on Thursday. Uber’s IPO has been long expected. The often controversial ...

Bitcoin has dropped to its lowest price since January 2017 as investors once again sold off cryptocurrencies across the board after a brief break in the bear market last week. Like previous price drops, the reason behind the latest selloff does not have a single cause. Instead, a number of negative news stories around bitcoin ...

Just when the war over Bitcoin Cash seemed to be over, United American Corp. has filed a lawsuit against a range of companies and individuals who backed the eventual winner in the battle: Bitcoin Cash ABC. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is seeking damages and injunctive relief ...

The Chinese government is suspected to be behind the hack of the hotel owner Marriott International Inc., that included the theft of data relating to over 500 million customers worldwide. Reuters reported Wednesday that unnamed security experts examining the hack have found hacking tools, techniques and procedures previously used in attacks attributed to Chinese hackers. The ...

Ethereum blockchain startup and venture capital firm ConsenSys has laid off 13 percent of its global workforce as it attempts to stem costs and refocus its core vision. Problems at the company, formally called Consensus Systems Inc., were first detailed in a Forbes article Wednesday that described ConsenSys as having a “weird operating structure.” Both former and current employees ...

Adobe Systems Inc. today released an urgent update for Flash after the discovery of a serious security vulnerability that’s being used by a group against targets in Russia. First detected by cybersecurity firm Gigamon, the vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2018-15982, allows for a maliciously crafted Flash object to execute code on a victim’s computer, enabling the attacker to gain command line access ...