A critical flaw has been discovered in Intel Corp.’s Skylake and Kaby Lake chips that could result in application and data issues, according to a newly published report. The issue is said to be the result of a microcode bug in Intel’s hyperthreading process and affects Skylake and Kaby Lake Intel Core central processing unit chips ...

People who lost money when the price of Ethereum dropped from about $320 to a mere 10 cents a token after a “flash crash” will be reimbursed by concurrency exchange Coinbase Inc., the company announced over the weekend. The flash crash would appear to have been triggered by a number of in-place orders and automated ...

A coordinated cyberattack that targeted the email accounts of politicians crippled Britain’s parliamentary network on Saturday. The attack, which is said to have resulted in the compromise of 90 email accounts on the network, resulted in officials deciding to disable remote access to the emails of members of Parliament, peers and their staff as a safeguard against those ...

Bitcoin startup Blockchain Luxembourg S.A. has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Lakestar. Founded in 2011, Blockchain aims to reimagine global financial transactions using software that facilitates the use of bitcoin for its customers. Having passed 10 million bitcoin wallets in November last year, Blockchain claims to be the world’s most popular bitcoin ...

When most people think of Elon Musk (pictured), they might think electric cars, spaceships, trains that run in tubes, solar panels and even telepathy. But in an unexpected twist, you can now add Spotify AB competitor to that list with news Thursday that Tesla Inc. is in talks with record labels to provide a music ...

A new form of malware based on exploits developed by the National Security Agency that was exposed in April is running wild, but with a twist: It hijacks computers to use their processing power to mine for a cryptocurrency called Monero. The Trojan.BtcMine.1259 malware uses DoublePulsar, an NSA backdoor trojan virus that exploits unsecured server ...

Proving that there may be such a thing as divine intervention, speeding and red light cameras in the Australian state of Victoria have been infected in a ransomware attack. Some 55 government revenue-raising devices were infected across metro-Melbourne and the state, but unfortunately, according to Victoria police, “our advice at this stage is that a ...

The Mozilla Foundation’s private Firefox Focus browser has made its way to Android after initially being made first available for iOS users in November. The Android browser, like its Apple cousin, comes with an ad-blocker included and turned on by default, but perhaps more interestingly runs in a “private” mode as well. For users, that ...

WannaCry, the ransomware that made global headlines in May, is back. Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. Ltd. was forced to shut down a manufacturing plant briefly after the systems running the plant were infected. Honda’s Sayama plant on the outskirts of Tokyo, which manufactures the Accord, Odyssey and Step Wagon models and produces around 1,000 vehicles each ...

Textio Inc., a Seattle-based startup that uses machine learning to provide “augmented writing” for companies advertising for new staff, has raised $20 million in a new funding round. The Series B round was led by Scale Venture Partners and included previous investors Emergence Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Upside Partnership. Founded in 2014, Textio’s “advanced ...