The U.S. Department of Transportation is expanding its drone testing program, giving permission to 10 state, local and tribal governments to take part in a new pilot program that will test drones primarily as delivery vehicles. Those given approval Tuesday to test delivery drones under the “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot program” include a range of Universities and ...

Microsoft Corp. has focused on addressing vulnerabilities being used by suspected state-sponsored hackers as part of its monthly “Patch Tuesday” release, issuing patches for two actively targeted new attacks used to steal data. In one case, an advanced persistent threat group, which is nearly always used as a term to describe state-sponsored hacking groups, has been ...

In a monumental move, Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo announced Tuesday that it will deploy a commercial, fully autonomous vehicle ride-hailing service with no safety drivers in Phoenix, Arizona, later this year. The company, formerly known as the Google self-driving car project, launched a trial of the service in November and is so confident that the service ...

Just when it was thought the infamous hack of consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. couldn’t get any worse, it has. The company has disclosed that even more customer data was stolen than per its previous estimates. The revised numbers come from a filing the company made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday. It stated ...

Google Inc.’s latest mobile operating system, Android P, was released in beta today with an upgrade that comes jam-packed with artificial intelligence features, part of a focus on AI across the company at the Google I/O conference today. Pitched as a way of making a phone users’ life easier, Android P applies AI across the ...

The price of bitcoin teased $10,000 in trading Monday in what might be the start of a new bull run following a spate of both good and bad news surrounding the cryptocurrency. At the top of the list, Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates told CNBC that bitcoin was a crazy investment and that he’d short it ...

Drupal has always been the bridesmaid to WordPress, the bride of content management systems. Now, Drupal has finally become popular, but for the wrong reason: It has become the favorite CMS of cryptomining hackers. The latest range of attacks targeting Drupal, which seems to be perpetually in the news for yet another security issue, targets CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602, ...

Despite the lack of a viable mobile phone platform, Microsoft Corp. is doubling down on its efforts to grab a piece of the online payments market by providing Outlook support for Microsoft Pay, previously known as Microsoft Wallet. The service will allow users to settle invoices within Outlook itself. In one example given by the ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has hired the former head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to advise it on safety after an internal investigation found that a software fault caused the fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle in March. Christopher Hart was first acting chairman of the NTSB in August 2014 and then chairman ...

Russians? Chinese? Gun-averse liberals who hate Dixieland? All of those and other factors could be responsible for one of the weirdest cyberattacks of recent times after an election in Knox County, the main seat of government for Knoxville, Tennessee, was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The DDoS attacked occurred last Tuesday evening, knocking county servers ...