German steel and elevator conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG has had trade secrets stolen following a hack of its systems earlier this year. The company said in a statement Thursday that it had been targeted by attackers located in Southeast Asia engaged in what was described as “organized, highly professional hacker activities.” ThyssenKrupp‘s internal security team discovered ...

Microsoft Corp. Thursday announced a new collaboration with Intel Corp. to harness the strengths of both companies in an effort to further the way people interact with computers across a wide variety of applications. Called Project Evo, the new Wintel partnership will see the two famous tech giants working together to improve how personal computers ...

Residents of New Bern, N.C., were not loving visiting their local McDonald’s restaurant recently after a rather crafty individual decided it would be fun to hack the drive-through ordering machine. Traditionally drive-through customers are greeted by a standard message when they have finished placing the order. But last Sunday the people visiting the drive-thru instead ...

Apple Inc.’s director of artificial intelligence research said earlier this week that the company will start publishing its research on AI. Now, Apple has revealed more about exactly what it’s working on. According to slides and notes of Russ Salakhutdinov’s presentation at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona, Apple is actively investigating “volumetric detection ...

Cybersecurity solutions company Optiv Security Inc. has canceled plans to go public and has instead opted to sell a majority stake in the company to private equity firm KKR & Co. Under the deal, current majority owner Blackstone Group LP will retain a minority shareholding with Optiv management. Those selling their stake in the company ...

The grand ambitions of Google Inc. parent company Alphabet Inc. to start a drone delivery service have been delayed by, among other things, the small matter of preventing the machines from crashing, according to an extensive report published Tuesday. In an in-depth look at Alphabet’s “moonshot” programs, The Wall Street Journal’s Nick Jakas details the ...

Apple’s notoriously tight secrecy about its activities is set to change as it tries to retain and hire talent, at least in one area, according to an Apple Inc. executive. The company is going to start publishing some of their artificial intelligence work and engaging more with the wider academic community, Russ Salakhutdinov, Apple’s director of ...

Docker Inc. has acquired decentralized storage platform startup Infinit International Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Infinit sells a decentralized storage platform that transforms commodity servers into multiple scalable, secure and fault-tolerant storage servers tailored for specific applications and more specifically is intended for container and micro-services deployments. The company’s software can be deployed on ...

Seven months after first announcing that it was teaching its Watson cognitive technology platform to fight cybercrime, IBM Corp. has launched it into the real world, at least in test mode. The Watson for Cyber Security platform has been designed to discover behavior patterns and evidence of hidden cyber attacks and threats that could otherwise ...

Video site Dailymotion is the latest big hacking target, as the details of 85.2 million account holders have made their way online. The hack of the Vivendi SA-owned YouTube competitor, first reported by data breach notification LeakedSource, includes unique email addresses and usernames from the company’s systems. Only 18.3 million accounts had associated passwords with ...