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Uber hack shows vulnerability of software code-sharing services

Bloomberg The data breach at Uber Technologies holds a lesson for software developers who use third-party services to store and share code: be careful what you share. Services like San Francisco-based Github Inc., GitLab and SourceForge are used by developers to collaborate on projects, track bugs in code and distribute early versions of applications. They’re a target for cyberthieves. Uber ...

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Swiss bank UBS expands its workforce in ‘AI’

Bloomberg UBS Group AG is expanding its workforce in one of the few areas in banking where demand for talent is growing. “We’re currently recruiting more people for artificial intelligence [AI],” Veronica Lange, head of innovation at Switzerland’s biggest bank, said in an interview in Moscow. “These are data scientists, architects, business analysts.” AI refers to technology capable of performing ...

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Chinese startup EHang develops flying car, to be rolled out in 2018

Bloomberg A Chinese startup has developed a flying car that it plans to roll out as soon as next year. EHang Inc.’s E-184 drone can carry one passenger in its small cockpit, but the firm says it’s working on a model that can carry two. EHang’s CEO Hu Huazhi says they’ll be in operation as “taxi drones” in Dubai in ...

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