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Uber Technologies Inc.’s troubled self-driving car program has gone from bad to worse as one of its vehicles ran over and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday evening. The victim, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, is said to have been crossing a road …
Initial coin offering investigation fuels Ethereum price plunge
The price of Ethereum continued to drop over the weekend as investors feared that a continuing investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may result in a rapid decline in the number of initial coin offerings that use the cryptocurrency. Ethereum …
IRS crackdown puts the fear of God into bitcoin investors
Reports that the Internal Revenue Service is coming after bitcoin investors has put the fear of God into the market, causing a selloff that pushed the price of the cryptocurrency down by thousands of dollars over the last few days. The fears …
Report: Twitter set to be the latest company to ban crypto advertising
Twitter Inc. is set to join Facebook Inc. and Google LLC in banning advertising relating to cryptocurrencies, at least according to one report published Sunday. Sky News claimed that Twitter is set to implement a new advertising policy in the next two weeks that will prohibit …
Report: Zero-fee stock trading app startup Robinhood raising $350M on $5.6B valuation
Free stock trading app maker Robinhood Market Inc. is raising $350 million in a late-stage round that brings its valuation to a stunning $5.6 billion. The Series D round was led by DST Global, according to a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal. …
St. Louis hospital operator the latest to expose data via misconfigured cloud storage
Another day, another data breach in the medical industry. Today’s version comes from BJC Healthcare, a St. Louis-based nonprofit organization that runs two nationally recognized academic hospitals, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The data breach, which is believed to have affected at least …
To appease Apple users, Google renames Android Wear to Wear OS
Google LLC has changed the name of Android Wear, its wearables version of Android, to Wear OS by Google in an apparent bid to appease Apple Inc. users who were confused by the fact that the operating system worked with both Android …
Intel has redesigned its next-gen chips to fix Meltdown and Spectre flaws
Intel Corp. is promising that the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities will mostly be a thing of the past in its next generation of central processing units following a redesign of its upcoming eighth-generation Xeon and Core processor chips. The Meltdown and Spectre …
Hoops fans beware: Hackers will be out in force during March Madness
Security researchers are warning that hackers will be out in force this year targeting fans of NCAA Basketball games, better known as “March Madness.” “March Madness is back and with it comes a great opportunity for cyber criminals who are intent on …
Cryptocurrency with security focus has its Twitter account hacked
A cryptocurrency that claims to be the most secure on the market has had its Twitter account hacked, with customers scammed into handing over funds via a fake promotion. The hacking of the Twitter account of the Verge cryptocurrency occurred Tuesday. Hackers asked Verge …