Developing self-driving cars is hard. That’s the main takeaway from the news today that General Motors Co. is the latest company to stumble in autonomous vehicle efforts. According to Reuters, cars developed by GM’s Cruise unit, which first started on-street testing in 2016, are facing “some unexpected technical challenges,” including difficulty in “identifying whether objects ...

In a surprising finding ahead of the U.S. midterm elections Nov. 6, a survey has found that nearly one in five people may not vote due to security concerns with voting systems. The finding comes from the 2018 Unisys Security Index, which compiles the results of a poll of 13,000 consumers in 13 countries, including more than ...

A Washington internet service provider is the latest company found to have exposed confidential data via a misconfigured Amazon Web Services instance, or virtual server. But in a serious twist to a common tale, the data was far more than simple customer details. The company in question is called PocketiNet Communications Inc. and UpGuard Inc. found 73 gigabtyes ...

The Triton malware that targeted industrial control systems in the Middle East in December has been linked to Russia in a newly published report. FireEye Inc. claimed Tuesday that the malware, believed responsible for the shutdown of a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia, was developed by the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics. That’s a ...

Bitcoin and blockchain startup Circle Internet Financial Inc. just got a big boost for its burgeoning USD Coin, gaining the support today of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. The USDC stablecoin was announced by Circle in May alongside a round of funding before being offered publicly in September. A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to minimize the price volatility ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. is preparing for an initial public offering, according to an unconfirmed report. Reuters, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” claimed that the popular CDN provider is looking at going public in the first half of the year on a $3.5 billion valuation. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is said to have ...

Ford Motor Co. will set a historic first as the first company to deploy self-driving vehicles onto the streets of Washington D.C. The test of the vehicles, run in conjunction with Argo AI, the artificial intelligence startup it invested $1 billion into back in February 2017, will begin in the first half of next year. The ...

Just as Uber Technologies Inc. had managed to get back on track ahead of its initial public offering next year, the company has been struck by another sexual misconduct scandal. Cameron Poetzscher (pictured), Uber’s head of corporate development, has resigned following the publication today by The Wall Street Journal of details about a 2017 investigation into sexual misconduct. ...

The three major companies named in a Bloomberg report that claimed that their hardware had been infected with tiny Chinese spy chips are calling on the news service to retract the story. Bloomberg claimed in the report that Chinese intelligence had secretly implanted microscopic spy chips nearly the size of a grain of rice inside motherboards ...

Hackers have stolen data relating to 75,000 people who registered with Healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act website. Those behind the hack did not hack the site directly but via the Federally Facilitated Exchanges portal used by healthcare insurance agents and brokers to enroll users into health plans made available through the official HealthCare.gov portal. The Centers ...