Chinese-owned tech companies may be on the nose with the Trump Administration, but that hasn’t stopped the U.S. Postal Service teaming with one to test shipping using self-driving trucks. The trial involves the USPS shipping mail and packages in Texas using self-driving trucks designed by TuSimple. TuSimple was in the news recently when reports emerged ...

Craig Wright, the on-again, off-again claimant to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is at it again. Today it was revealed that he has obtained a copyright for the original bitcoin white paper as well as the original code used to build bitcoin. An Australian entrepreneur, Wright (pictured) was first claimed to be Nakamoto in a ...

Microsoft Corp. today made the May 2019 Windows Update generally available for users of Windows 10 and Windows Server, meaning both consumer and enterprise users alike can now easily obtain the upgrade. Tested for months prior to release in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the October 2018 update disaster, Microsoft has taken a ...

Google LLC warned today that the passwords of some G Suite business customers had been stored in plain text for as long as 14 years. The passwords were stored unhashed, that is unencrypted, in Google internal systems with no suggestion that they may have been accessed, though they were potentially a security risk. The first failure ...

Telecommunications firm Ooma Inc. today said it has acquired cloud-based data and voice solutions provider Broadsmart Global Inc. for $7.4 million. Founded in 2000 and owned by B. Riley Principal Investments, Broadsmart Global is a cloud-based communications provider that claims to provide high value, high quality and increased efficiencies for hosted internet protocol and session initiation protocol/IP trunking for ...

Semiconductor firm Marvell Technology Group Ltd. said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire Avera Semiconductor LLC, the custom-chip business of GlobalFoundries Inc. The acquisition price came in at $650 million up front in cash with a potential earn-out of up to $90 million depending on the company’s performance over the next 15 months. Previously owned ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about security risks pertaining to Chinese made drones. The notice, titled “Chinese Manufactured Unmanned Aircraft Systems,” warns that there are “strong concerns about any technology product that takes American data into the territory of an authoritarian state that permits its intelligence services to have unfettered ...

In yet another case of a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. instance, a database with records of more than 49 million Instagram users, including so-called “influencers,” has been found online exposed to all and sundry. The database, discovered by a security researcher and first reported by TechCrunch, included bio, profile picture, the number of followers the ...

Bitcoin went on a wild roller coaster ride involving billions of dollars in value over the weekend, dropping more than $1,300 at one point until mostly recovering as of Sunday evening. The current ride dates back to bitcoin breaking through $6,000 on May 9, surging again through $7,500 before investors started to take profits May 12. Bitcoin then rose ...

OGusers, a popular forum for trading stolen account credentials, has itself been hacked and details of members were published on another hacking forum. The hack started with an administrator telling users May 12 that a hard drive failure had erased a few months worth of private messages and forums posts, but a backup from January had ...