A former Apple Inc. engineer has been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for stealing confidential information from the company’s autonomous vehicle project. The accused, named Xiaolang Zhang, was employed by Apple in December 2015 to work on Project Titan, Apple’s self-driving car project, where he was given the job of designing and testing circuit boards ...

WhiteHat Security Inc. today announced a partnership with RiskIQ that will give its customers access to RiskIQ’s Digital Footprint Snapshot technology. The technology expands the reach of WhiteHat’s Discovery tool by allowing customers to expand their security coverage to point-in-time snapshots of their brands’ online presence beyond the firewall. Specifically, that means internet-facing assets including ...

Timehop, both an app and a company that was big on Facebook until the social network copied its features via its own “On This Day” service in 2015, has been hacked. Data relating to 21 million users was stolen. It consisted of names and email addresses of its users, with 4.7 million records including phone numbers ...

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bancor is offline after a hacker managed to steal about $23 million in cryptocurrencies from the service. Details on how the hack took place are scant. Bancor described it only as a “security breach” and said that “no user wallets were compromised.” In a later update, the company said it takes the incident seriously ...

Microsoft Corp. has returned to the small, affordable tablet market, announcing the Surface Go, a 10-inch tablet packing a lot of punch for $399. Pitched by Microsoft as “the most portable and affordable Surface product yet,” the Go tablet offers an 1800 x 1200 PixelSense Display. It supports the Surface Pen with 4096 levels of ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has joined Alphabet Inc. in participating in a $335 million round into electric scooter startup LimeBike Inc. as the ride-hailing company continues investing in a multimodal ecosystem. Also participating in the Series C round, led by GV, were IVP, Atomico, Fidelity Management, Research Company, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Fifth Wall and GIC, the Singapore ...

Thieves have stolen 600 gallons of fuel worth $1,800 from a Detroit gas station in an apparent case of fuel management system hacking. The hack and subsequent theft took place at 1 p.m. June 23. with two men (pictured) reported to have led a convoy of 10 vehicles into a Marathon Gas Station in Detroit. ...

Wireless fitness band maker Polar Electro Oy has suspended a public workout-sharing feature after it was found that the location data could be used to track soldiers and spies on military bases. The discovery, detailed today in a joint investigation from Bellingcat and Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent, involves Polar sharing data from its users, complete ...

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has stepped up his attack on the media on multiple fronts. On Thursday, Musk (pictured) accused one journalist of making bribes and working on behalf of an investor to damage the electric car maker’s reputation. He also attacked a number of other outlets for reporting incorrect data and ...

A new report from famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple is set to offer its new iPhone’s in a range of new colors, a shift away from Apple’s usual black, white and occasionally silver phones. Detailed in a research note reported by 9to5Mac, Kuo said the new iPhones will come in a “plethora of ...