Turmoil in the senior ranks of Snap Inc. continues amid reports that the company has lost two more senior executives following a scandal over an inappropriate relationship. Cheddar reported Friday that Francis Racioppi, Snap’s director of global security, has been fired after an investigation found he had an undisclosed relationship with a woman from a consulting firm ...

Despite its troubles in developing self-driving cars, Uber Technologies Inc. is hiring engineers to bring autonomous vehicle technology to bicycles and electric scooters. The announcement, made by Uber at a DIYRobocars event on Sunday, sees the company hiring “Micromobility” engineers to develop “autonomous scooters and bikes that can drive themselves to charging or better locations.” According to The Telegraph, ...

Millions of call logs and SMS text messages have been found exposed on a misconfigured database belonging to “voice over internet protocol” provider VOIPo LLC. Discovered by Cloudflare Inc. security researcher Justin Paine, the data was spotted via the Shodan security search engine and traced back to an unsecured Elasticsearch server owned by VOIPo. The data ...

Payments startup Square Inc. has launched a debit card that gives sellers instant access to received funds as the Jack Dorsey-led company continues a move into banking services. The Square Card is being pitched as a way for sellers using Square payments services to improve cash flow by having instant access to funds. Previously, a ...

A massive database containing nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million plain text passwords has been found online in what is shaping up to be possibly one of the largest data breaches of all time. Discovered by Have I Been Pwned founder Troy Hunt, the database, dubbed “Collection #1,” was found to be ...

Google LLC today announced an agreement to acquire smartwatch-related intellectual property from Fossil Group Inc., the company behind brands such as Michael Kors, Kate Spade New York and Diesel for $40 million. The deal sees Google acquire IP “related to a smartwatch technology currently under development by Fossil Group.” A portion of Fossil’s research and development ...

Microsoft Corp. may be set to announce the second incarnation of its mixed-reality HoloLens headset, according to widespread reports among the tech press. The speculation that HoloLens 2 may soon be announced has its roots in an unexpected announcement — that Microsoft will have a stand at the Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona starting ...

Michael Terpin, founder of the investment group BitAngels, has filed a civil suit and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations claim against a New York City man and others he alleges stole about $24 million in cryptocurrency from his personal accounts last year. Terpin was last in the news when he filed a lawsuit against AT&T Inc. claiming ...

A new subgroup of the Magecart digital credit card skimming gang has been detected that’s targeting advertising-related websites with a new strain of malware, security researchers from RiskIQ Inc. revealed today. Dubbed Magecart Group 12, the subgroup is said to have been founded in September. It’s specifically gaining access to targets via third-party suppliers of code meant to ...

President Donald J. Trump has signed the OPEN Government Data Act into law, theoretically making U.S. government documents more easy to access by the general public. The act, which passed through both the House of Representatives and the Senate in what some describe as a “major bipartisan move,” requires federal agencies to make data that present ...