Uber has just responded to a group of Change.org petitioners protesting Uber’s background check policies in India, following the alleged rape of a passenger by a driver with an assault record. After… Read more »
The speed with which several otherwise unconnected Twitter users — on different sides of the country — managed to identify the suspects in a brutal attack on two gay men in… Read more »
Self-driving cars could be used as automated getaway drivers in criminal plots, according to the FBI. Sure, driverless cars could be used for crime. But so can Microsoft Excel. Read more »
Just a month after the original SilkRoad shut down, SilkRoad 2.0 has emerged in its place, according to VentureBeat. The new SilkRoad is helmed by a new Dread Pirate Roberts, and… Read more »
There’s a battle going on in the UK, as the City of London’s newly formed Intellectual Property Crime Unit has begun to target some of the largest torrenting sites in the… Read more »
HTC was embroiled in a scandal this weekend, as a group of its top designers allegedly tried to make off with the company’s latest designs. Read more »
Facebook released its new report on data requests from governments around the world and the U.S., perhaps unsurprisingly, sends in the most by a wide margin. Read more »
A group of Spanish researchers have developed a chatbot that poses as a teenager in order to catch pedophiles online. It’s an interesting idea and mix of technologies, even if it’s… Read more »