Police in China are investigating the theft of data from a major hotel group after 130 million customer records were discovered for sale on the shady part of the web called the darknet. The data pertains to the Chinese hotel group Huazhu Hotels Group Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed company with 3,903 hotels run under a range ...

Seeking to raise at least $100 million and probably more, SurveyMonkey Inc. today formally filed to go public following the submission a S1 draft registration statement in June. Founded in 2009, the company offers a cloud-based online survey and questionnaire tool that has become synonymous with online surveys in the same way as Google with search. ...

Investment firm Morgan Creek Digital today teamed up with Bitwise Asset Management Fund Inc. to create a new cryptocurrency fund designed for institutional investors. Called The Digital Asset Index Fund, the fund holds investments in the top ten cryptocurrencies based on their market share. At launch, bitcoin holds nearly 70 percent of the index’s shares, followed by ...

A newly discovered flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system that could enable a hacker to gain elevated privileges in a network has been revealed on Twitter, with no solution in sight. Revealed Monday by a Twitter user going by the name SandBoxEscaper and since certified as legitimate by CERT/CC vulnerability analyst Will Dormann, the vulnerability is ...

Microsoft Corp. is spreading some more artificial intelligence love to its products, announcing it will add automated video and audio transcription capabilities to OneDrive for Business. The AI behind the service is currently available in Microsoft Stream, Microsoft’s corporate video-sharing service first featured at the Build Developer conference in May. “While viewing a video or listening ...

Waymo LLC has long been regarded as the leader in autonomous vehicle development and technology, but all might not be as well as it seems at the company, according to a report published Tuesday. The Information quoted a number of unnamed Waymo insiders who claim the vehicles being used in the Arizona ride-hailing test have numerous problems. ...

Cryptocurrency investing service Atlas Quantum is the latest crypto company to be hacked, but in a different twist it’s not bitcoin that has been stolen but customer data. The hack, disclosed by Atlas Quantum on Sunday and later detailed by Have I Been Pwned, is said to have occurred on Saturday. It involved the theft of data relating to ...

Microsoft Corp. is said to have abandoned development of a virtual reality headset for its XBox gaming console because of technological limitations, according to a report published Monday. That may not immediately appear remarkable, since as CNet pointed out, Microsoft itself claimed it didn’t have specific plans to create a VR headset, though it didn’t also ...

AutoX Inc., an obscure self-driving car startup with offices in China and Silicon Valley, has launched a pilot autonomous vehicle food delivery service in San Jose, California, in what’s being claimed to be a first. The pilot program will initially be limited to an area of about 400 homes in north San Jose using two vehicles ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has invested $500 million into Uber Technologies Inc. as part of a broader deal that will see the two companies work together on autonomous vehicle technology. The round, somewhat of a surprise given that Uber has already raised $21.7 billion to date, carries a $72 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal Monday. The ...