A newly discovered flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system that could enable a hacker to gain elevated privileges in a network has been revealed on Twitter, with no solution in sight. Revealed Monday by a Twitter user going by the name SandBoxEscaper and since certified as legitimate by CERT/CC vulnerability analyst Will Dormann, the vulnerability is ...

Microsoft Corp. is spreading some more artificial intelligence love to its products, announcing it will add automated video and audio transcription capabilities to OneDrive for Business. The AI behind the service is currently available in Microsoft Stream, Microsoft’s corporate video-sharing service first featured at the Build Developer conference in May. “While viewing a video or listening ...

Waymo LLC has long been regarded as the leader in autonomous vehicle development and technology, but all might not be as well as it seems at the company, according to a report published Tuesday. The Information quoted a number of unnamed Waymo insiders who claim the vehicles being used in the Arizona ride-hailing test have numerous problems. ...

Cryptocurrency investing service Atlas Quantum is the latest crypto company to be hacked, but in a different twist it’s not bitcoin that has been stolen but customer data. The hack, disclosed by Atlas Quantum on Sunday and later detailed by Have I Been Pwned, is said to have occurred on Saturday. It involved the theft of data relating to ...

Microsoft Corp. is said to have abandoned development of a virtual reality headset for its XBox gaming console because of technological limitations, according to a report published Monday. That may not immediately appear remarkable, since as CNet pointed out, Microsoft itself claimed it didn’t have specific plans to create a VR headset, though it didn’t also ...

AutoX Inc., an obscure self-driving car startup with offices in China and Silicon Valley, has launched a pilot autonomous vehicle food delivery service in San Jose, California, in what’s being claimed to be a first. The pilot program will initially be limited to an area of about 400 homes in north San Jose using two vehicles ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has invested $500 million into Uber Technologies Inc. as part of a broader deal that will see the two companies work together on autonomous vehicle technology. The round, somewhat of a surprise given that Uber has already raised $21.7 billion to date, carries a $72 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal Monday. The ...

In what is shaping up to be potentially the biggest security threat of 2018, proof-of-concept code has been found on GitHub that allows for easy exploitation of the critical vulnerability discovered in Apache Struts 2 Aug. 22. Discovered by security researchers at Recorded Future Inc. Friday, the code, which allows attackers to exploit the flaw by ...

Chinese ride-hailing Didi Chuxing Technology Co. has suspended its Hitch carpooling service after a driver murdered a passenger, the second homicide involving the service since May. The murder was disclosed by police in the city of Leqing, south of Shanghai on Saturday after they found the body of a 20-year-old female. The South China Morning Post reported Saturday that ...

Infamous North Korean hacking outfit Lazarus is targeting cryptocurrency traders with a new malware campaign dubbed “Operation AppleJeus.” Uncovered by security researchers at Kaspersky Lab and publicized Thursday, the campaign was first detected during an investigation into a hack of an unnamed Asian cryptocurrency exchange and involved Lazarus distributing software infected with a trojan virus to ...