In a sign of the times, a hospital in Scotland has launched what is believed to be a world first: a residential treatment course for “crypto addicts,” those addicted to cryptocurrency trading. The course, to be run at the West Linton facility of the Castle Craig Hospital, will use techniques found to be successful in treating gambling addictions in an ...

A cryptocurrency trading assistant startup that recently completed an initial coin offering has been hacked, with around $1.35 million in Ethereum tokens stolen. The hack targeted a company called Taylor that raised Ethereum in a recent ICO in return for 10 million “TAY” tokens that would be the core of a cryptocurrency trading platform. That platform was ...

Two Canadian banks have been targeted by hackers, with financial information relating to about 90,000 customers stolen in what is likely an attempted case of blackmail. The first of the two banks and Canada’s fourth-largest lender, the Bank of Montreal, said in a statement Monday that fraudsters had contacted it on Sunday claiming that they were in ...

A company in the U.K. has trademarked the term “bitcoin” and is attempting to enforce the trademark’s use, causing the cryptocurrency press to go into meltdown. But all is not as it seems. The drama began with an Etsy seller publishing a letter from a lawyer representing the bitcoin trademark holder in relation to bitcoin-branded clothing ...

China is set to approve Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s acquisition of NXP Semiconductors N.V. as the Trump administration is reported Sunday to have reached a deal over ZTE Corp. in an apparent thawing of trade relations between the world’s two largest economies. Qualcomm’s acquisition of Dutch semiconductor manufacturer NXP was first announced way back in October 2016. But given ...

The same group behind the Triton malware attack that targeted critical industrial infrastructure in the Middle East last year is believed to be behind a new campaign targeting industrial control systems in the U.S. Dubbed “Xenotime” by security researchers at Dragos Inc., the group is described as the “most dangerous threat activity [group] publicly known.” It’s said ...

StumbleUpon, a website discovery service that at its peak had hundreds of millions of users, is closing after 16 years, one of the few remaining services from the Web 2.0 era. Founded in 2001, StumbleUpon was a discovery engine that recommended personalized web and mobile content via its own browser, apps and plugins for leading browsers. ...

A U.S. National Transport Safety Bureau investigation into a fatal accident involving an Uber Technologies Inc. in March has preliminarily confirmed that not only was Uber’s software to blame but the company had also disabled the emergency braking feature in the vehicle. The crash in March involved an Uber test vehicle in autonomous mode hitting and killing ...

Confirming privacy advocates’ worst nightmares, an Amazon Echo not only recorded a private conversation without permission but then sent it to a random contact on the device. The strange story of technology gone wild takes us to Portland, Oregon, where a woman named Danielle, who declined to give her last name to local media, said her ...

Financial technology firm GreenSky Inc. is the latest startup about to go public, with plans to offer an unusually high 34 million shares Thursday on the Nasdaq Global Markets Thursday at an expected price of $21 to $23 a share. Founded in 2006, GreenSky offers consumer loans via a platform that ties into point-of-sale systems, ...