U.S. FAA convenes multiagency board to review Boeing software fix
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it had convened a multiagency Technical Advisory Board to review Boeing's proposed software fix on the grounded 737 Max. The board consists of experts from the FAA, U.S. Air Force, NASA and Volpe National Transportation Systems Center that ...
Boeing says regulators will test 737 Max software fix by next week
Boeing expects U.S. regulators will conduct a test flight of a software fix for the grounded 737 Max by the end of next week, a company spokesman said Monday. Boeing expects the certification of the software fix — a key step in returning the planes ...
Anti-stall software upgrade for 737 Max nearing completion ahead of FAA certification, Boeing says
Boeing Co. has said it is close to a significant milestone that's one of the last steps before it submits to U.S. regulators a patch for anti-stall software linked to two fatal 737 Max accidents. The company has completed its engineering trial of the updated ...
Boeing to offer safety feature as standard in 737 Max software upgrade
Boeing will make standard on its troubled new airliner a safety feature that might have helped the crew of a jet that crashed shortly after takeoff last year in Indonesia, killing everyone on board. The equipment, which had been offered as an option, alerts pilots ...
iPhone Facetime bug lets unanswered callers eavesdrop and observe
A newly discovered Facetime bug lets people hear and even see those they are reaching out to on iPhones using the video calling software, sparking privacy fears. The bug, initially outlined by Apple product and review website 9to5Mac.com, was reported by several media outlets. A video ...
Adobe to launch Photoshop for iPad in strategy shift
Adobe Systems Inc., the maker of popular digital design programs for creatives, is planning to launch the full version of its Photoshop app for Apple Inc.'s iPad as part of a new strategy to make its products compatible across multiple devices and boost subscription ...
Germany: 774,000 Mercedes cars have unauthorized software defeat devices
Germany's Transport Ministry said on Monday that 774,000 Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Europe had been found to contain unauthorized software defeat devices and ordered Daimler to recall more than 200,000 cars in Germany. Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Vito models with diesel engines and a sports utility variant ...
U.S. bill would force tech firms to disclose if foreign adversaries probed their sensitive software
U.S. tech companies would be forced to disclose if they allowed American adversaries, like Russia and China, to examine the inner workings of software sold to the U.S. military under proposed legislation, Senate staff told Reuters on Thursday. The bill, approved by the Senate Armed ...
Developers of app that lets users to remotely access smartphones slapped with arrest warrants
Police on Wednesday served fresh arrest warrants to three developers of a computer application that enables remote access to other people's smartphones, and separately arrested the leader of the software development team. Wataru Ishida, a 40-year-old executive of Yokohama-based Internal Corp., Kotaro Katakura, the 31-year-old ...
U.S. lottery vendor accused of rigging drawings allegedly installed code that predicted winners
A lottery vendor for years manipulated drawings to enrich himself and associates by installing software code that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year, Iowa investigators alleged Wednesday. Authorities called the newly obtained forensic evidence a breakthrough in the investigation ...
VW U.S. sales on hold as new suspect software turns up in 2016 diesels
U.S. regulators say they have a lot more questions for Volkswagen, triggered by the company's recent disclosure of additional suspect software in 2016 diesel models that potentially would help exhaust systems run cleaner during government tests. That's more bad news for VW dealers looking for ...
