Websites for the Russian Foreign Ministry as well as the country’s largest stock exchange and a key state-owned bank were offline Monday, as loosely organized groups of volunteer hackers pledged to retaliate against the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine. An “IT army” created by the Ukrainian government urged more than 200,000 followers on its […]
The prospect of self-driving trucks could further intensify a land grab near big cities, one that is already fueled in part by the increase in long-haul trucking during the pandemic. Alterra Property Group LLC, a real-estate investor based in Philadelphia, said Monday that it has launched a partnership with autonomous-truck company Embark Trucks Inc. to […]
After years of enticing employees with large stock awards and surging share prices, some technology companies are deploying a time-tested tool: cash. Alphabet Inc., GOOG 0.84% which owns Google, adopted a new cash bonus plan in October that lets the company give employees bonuses of nearly any size for nearly any reason. Amazon. AMZN 0.49% […]
Type the words “battery” and “breakthrough” into your search engine of choice, and you’ll encounter page after page of links. They include breathless news articles and lofty pronouncements from battery startups. And yet, according to scientists, engineers, startup founders and analysts, the use of the word “breakthrough” in the context of battery technology is misleading […]
WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether recent stock sales by Tesla Inc. TSLA 0.62% Chief Executive Elon Musk and his brother, Kimbal Musk, violated insider-trading rules, according to people familiar with the matter. The SEC’s investigation began last year after Kimbal Musk sold shares of Tesla valued at $108 million, one day before […]
U.S. companies should prepare for cyber blowback as President Biden imposes sanctions on Russia for its ongoing aggression in Ukraine, experts said. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. On Tuesday afternoon, President Biden said his administration would levy sanctions […]
A pair of California lawmakers have introduced a bill designed to protect children and their data online, hoping to bring U.K.-style social media rules to the U.S. State Assembly members Buffy Wicks, a Democrat, and Jordan Cunningham, a Republican, on Wednesday proposed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, a bill modeled on the U.K.’s Age […]
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces websites and online services of two state-owned banks were disrupted by suspected cyberattacks on Tuesday, government and bank officials have said. The country’s defense ministry said in an English-language Facebook post that its web portal suffered a likely distributed denial of service attack, in which hackers flooded the […]
Zillow Group Z 13.55% said on Thursday that it lost $881 million on its algorithmic-driven home-flipping business last year in its first earnings report since the real-estate company shut down that operation in the fall. The full company, which includes Zillow’s profitable home-listing and advertising business, posted a consolidated net loss of $528 million in […]
WASHINGTON—Internet platforms could be liable for child-sexual-abuse content on their sites under a bill passed unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The measure, known as the Earn It Act, would scale back the broad immunity that internet platforms were granted for content on their sites under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. […]
