In another sign of growing interest in self-driving cars, Chinese vehicle technology startup Momenta Tuesday announced it has raised $46 million. The Series B round was led by NIO Capital and included Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital, Shunwei Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Unity Ventures and, most notably, Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz. Founded in 2016, Momenta is using ...

Artificial intelligence startup Vicarious FPC Inc. has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Founded in 2010, Vicarious is developing the “recursive cortical network,” a system that the company claims uses the theorized computational principles of the brain to build software that can think and learn like a human. The network ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally waded into the murky, unregulated world of crowdfunded “initial coin offerings,” ruling Tuesday that cryptocurrency units or “tokens” offered in a recent ICO constituted financial securities and are therefore subject to securities law. The particular case, which has far broader implications, related to units, known as “tokens” ...

Voter registration data from nine states has been found for sale online, raising serious privacy concerns. The initial finding comes from LookingGlass Cyber Solutions Inc., via a story in Dark Reading Monday. The firm discovered nearly 10 million voter records for sale on a darknet site called RaidForums, finding that the records from at least two of the states — ...

Hundreds of companies that use Google Inc.’s G Suite platform may be exposing their data to the public Internet because of poor setup practices, according to a newly published security advisory. Silicon Valley security and compliance company RedLock Inc. made the claim Monday, finding that a “misconfiguration” in Google Groups has led to the exposure of sensitive ...

Another day, yet another hack of a company involved in an initial coin offering. Veritaseum Inc., a company attempting to raise funds, was hacked on Sunday to the tune of $8.4 million in stolen tokens. The company, which appears to be looking to develop a “proprietary P2P smart contract” platform that combines “the transformational power of ...

Malware is exploding across the globe, and now we know by how much. Security company Comodo Group Inc. said in a new report that it detected a nearly fourfold increase in malware infections in the second quarter — not compared with a year ago, but with just three months ago. In its “Comodo Threat Research ...

The adage that governments cannot be trusted with private data has been proven once again. The Swedish government has been caught giving foreign nationals access to the data of millions of citizens, including the nation’s transport register, police registers and military secrets. The data leak occurred in September 2015, when the Swedish Transport Agency outsourced the management of ...

Bitcoin has survived its first weekend following an agreement to implement a software upgrade designed to allow the cryptocurrency to scale and operate more efficiently. The upgrade, referred to as BIP91, involves the implementation of the Segwit2x code that changes the transaction structure of the bitcoin blockchain to increase a cap on the amount of data that can be stored ...

Microsoft Corp. has launched a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to track down bugs in software. Previously known by the name of “Project Springfield,” the new tool introduced Friday uses a process called “fuzz testing.” It’s designed to find vulnerabilities in software by dumping large amounts of random data into software to see whether it triggers ...