By Sarah N. Lynch and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators are investigating a group of hackers suspected of breaking into corporate email accounts to steal information to trade on, such as confidential details about mergers, according to people familiar with the matter. The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked at least eight listed companies to provide details of their data breaches, one of the people said.
It is up to the United States to create conditions to resume regular talks on cyber security, China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, as the two countries began three days of high-level meetings in Washington. Cyber security has long been an irritant in relations between China and the United States, despite robust economic ties, worth $590 billion in two-way trade last year. An attack on the U.S. government’s Office of
The agency that houses the U.S. Constitution and other important historical documents has found signs of unauthorized computer activity similar to the recently disclosed hack of federal employment records, according to a report on federal technology publication nextgov.com. The National Archives and Records Administration found signs that files were moved around, although there was no evidence that hackers took administrative control of its computer systems, nextgov.com said in its report
By Euan Rocha WATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd shares fell on Tuesday on uncertainty about what drove growth in the company’s crucial software segment in the first quarter. Shares were off 1.1 percent after jumping in premarket trading as BlackBerry earnings report touted a 150 percent increase in software and licensing revenues. BlackBerry said two licensing deals, with Cisco Systems Inc and a second, unnamed company, made “significant contributions,”
US-based researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based the robot on the humble cockroach and hope their design could be used to inspire future robot designs for use in monitoring the environment and search and rescue operations. The Berkeley team, led by postdoctoral researcher Chen Li, designed the shell so
To all you self-publishing authors out there, Amazon has a novel proposal: it’s going to pay you based on how many pages of your book people read, not the number of copies sold or “borrowed.” Starting July 1, any author who self-publishes on Kindle Unlimited or Kindle Lending Library, through the Amazon KDP Select program, will be part of this experiment. So it solves one problem – the author of
When Windows 10 launches in a few weeks’ time, deep inside its lines of code is concealed a nifty little application that seems to have been teleported from the 1990’s. While Calc, Paint or even Notepad have had a lick of paint to prepare them for Microsoft’s new flagship operating system, the same can’t be said about a little known Microsoft app, Journal, which looks almost exactly the same as
The home button on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is iconic, it’s instantly recognizable and the version on Apple’s latest devices boast Touch ID integration – but its days are numbered. That’s if you believe the latest buzz coming out of Taiwan, where Digitimes sources have said the Cupertino firm is working on a way to get rid of the home button. It claims Apple is in the midst
Introduction and wireless connection Your laptop, phone or tablet offers the perfect medium for watching movies and other media on the go. When you’re at home, however, your big-screen TV rules the roost for a good reason. Why make do with squinting at your mobile’s cramped display when you can – with the help of our guide – hook it up to your telly, wirelessly or with cables? Read on
In a bid to try and keep up with the runaway leaders in the video streaming game, Amazon is looking to seriously expand its investment in original programming for its Prime Instant Video service. At the launch of this year’s London Technology Week, Jay Marine, VP of Instant Video in Europe, told CNBC it was going to “double down” on the amount of money it spends on programming. It’s going
