Experts say Yahoo attack raises serious questions about the business and global cyber security December 15, 2016 Yahoo's year has gone from bad to worse in the last 24 hours after revealing it had broken records and been the victim of the biggest hack of all time. Just a couple of months after it revealed a similar attack – but one that impacted 500m accounts rather than 1bn in the latest revelation [...]
California regulator wants Uber to put the brakes on its self-driving cars as it doesn’t have a permit December 15, 2016 Uber's self-driving car service might be driven off-track, after the California highways regulator ordered it to pull the service hours after it was launched. Uber had started giving passengers the option of a self-driving car with a safety driver when booking a journey. Regulators said the ride-hailing app firm had to stop immediately and get [...]
Yahoo hack: How to find out if your details have been stolen and what to do if they have December 15, 2016 Last night Yahoo disclosed what is thought to be the largest cyber attack in history. Up to 1bn accounts are thought to be affected by the hack, which Yahoo said took place in 2013. How do you know if you've been affected? And what should you do if you have? We've answered all your questions [...]
In pictures: After the vacuum and the hairdryer, Dyson engineers have redesigned the humble Christmas tree December 15, 2016 First it was the vacuum cleaner, then it was the fan, and then it was the hairdryer. Now engineers at Dyson have redesigned the humble Christmas tree. Forget your Nordman Firs – the design, produced by engineers at Dyson's snazzy new campus included baubles made of hairdryers and 1,500 LEDs which can be remotely controlled to display different [...]
Yahoo hit by largest cyber attack of all time in second mega-hack December 15, 2016 More than one billion Yahoo user accounts have been hacked after the search engine revealed it had been the victim of the largest cyber attack in history. The breach is the second mammoth attack on Yahoo uncovered this year and has affected more than double the number of accounts compared with a breach revealed in September [...]
These two top tech bosses have been named advisers to Trump December 14, 2016 Donald Trump has added top tech firepower to a group of business leaders who will advise him on economic matters. Uber boss Travis Kalanick and the entrepreneur behind Tesla and Space X, Elon Musk, have joined the President-elect's Strategic and Policy Forum which will involve meeting with the President frequently. Read more: Move over Trump and [...]
You can totally judge a hedge fund manager by the type of car they drive December 14, 2016 You can't judge a book by its cover, so we're told, but you can judge a hedge fund manager by the type of car they drive. Supercar loving supremos might appear to be raking it in and flashing the cash in the form of a Ferrari, but they're no more likely to bring in higher returns than [...]
Watch: UK claims Amazon’s first ever drone delivery December 14, 2016 Amazon’s dream of drone deliveries just became a reality – and it happened first in the UK. A fully automated drone with no human input delivered a package to a customer in Cambridgeshire, taking just 13 minutes to get it from depot to door. The first flight of its kind is a major step forward [...]
London Uber drivers target Salesforce in fresh protests directed at business December 14, 2016 Uber drivers have targeted Salesforce in their fight for workers rights, holding a flash demo outside the tech company's London offices in the heart of the Square Mile. The United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) union which last month disrupted Westminster with protests, staged the demo at Heron Tower over the firm's use of the corporate Uber for Business service, [...]
Putting the “art” in startup: UK art marketplace Artfinder raises $2.2m December 14, 2016 UK art startup Artfinder said today it has raised $2.2m (£1.7m) – some of which came from the man behind the Amazon Echo. The company, which bills itself as an art marketplace, said it had brought on a new VC investor, Oxford Capital – and the round was also backed by William Tunstall-Pedoe, the Cambridge AI [...]