What Dropbox didn't disclose: It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 2016 By Darrell Etherington The Daily Crunch 08/31/16 Dropbox tells some, but not all, in a 2012 security breach, and Nest's bird has flown. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for August 31, 2016. Also if you're picking sides between Uber and Google, consider that Google builds huge agile dog-like robots, at least until it finds a buyer for Boston Dynamics. 1. Dropbox drops the ball on security Wow, 60 million is a lot of user credentials floating around, Dropbox. The worst part is, it happened four years ago in 2012, when an employee's weak password led to the leak. Dropbox made a semi-disclosure at the time, but did not come anywhere close to revealing the extent of the leak, which means 60 million user email logins have been floating around on the dark web unbeknownst to users since then. Oof. At least the passwords the hackers got were hashed and salted, and it looks like that security measure wasn't cracked. 2. Uber and Google gear up for a fight Uber and Google are on this sort of slow-mo collision course that is ramping up, as Google prepares to extend its Waze-based peer-to-peer car sharing service to all users across the San Francisco area. Waze opened up its service in Israel previously, and said this was part of its eventual plan, but the pilot is about to expand to the general public, which means we'll start to see some real competition between the two tech titans. Ding ding. 3. Leaving the Nest Google's Nest lab is also in a kind of slow-mo process, but this one is more like a gradual collapse. After founder and CEO Tony Fadell departed in June, it was clear things were changing. Now led by Marwan Faraz, the smart home company is losing a group of engineers to Google's Internet of Things platform team, which is being led by Android SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer. Everyone's staying well within the larger Alphabet org, but it might be a sign of greater business unit rationalization to come for Mountain View. SPONSORED CONTENT: RETAIL'S DIGITAL SUMMIT RETAIL'S DIGITAL SUMMIT Learn More… 4. Cars without humans at the wheel are coming to a street near you It's almost time: You're probably going to pull up to a car where there's no one technically driving eventually, but two states are in a legislative race to allow testing of fully self-driving vehicles without a human safety minder at the wheel. Michigan seems especially hot on the idea – the state has a hearing today to let the public chime in on its bipartisan bill, which would allow testing on all state roads. 5. Google now searches inside apps Apps are islands unto themselves, but Google is offering a kind of ferry service between those islands via its search app on Android. Google now has an "In Apps" search mode on the platform, which allows you to look inside your silos for contacts, messages, music and way more. At launch, it only works with Gmail, Spotify and YouTube, but Google is looking to ramp up app indexing to give it much further reach in the near future. 6. Another swing and a miss for Theranos Theranos borked it again, this time with its new Zika test. The company proudly debuted said product in the wake of its ongoing implosion around prior blood tests, but the FDA found flaws in that, too, and now it's withdrawn its request. Womp to the very loud womp. 7. iPhone likely to get 256GB of storage and Lightning EarPods The upcoming iPhone 7 is widely expected to ditch the headphone jack, and a new leak suggests we'll see a boost in the top-end capacity to 256GB, as well as Lightning EarPods included in the box, as well as an additional 3.5mm-to-Lightning adapter for your other headphones. If true, it really seems like Apple wants to make the transition as smooth as possible in this brave new 3.5mm-less world. Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Sr. Software Engineer, Frontend at UNIFi Software (San Mateo, CA, United States) Director of Engineering, Cloud @ Sauce Labs at Sauce Labs (Vancouver, BC, Canada) iOS Engineer @ 3D Robotics at 3D Robotics (San Francisco, CA, United States) Sr Software Engineer, Data Services at Walt Disney Studios (Burbank, CA, United States) Full Stack Engineer at Cadre (New York, NY, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service

                                                           

Aliens and Apple taxes: It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 2016 By Darrell Etherington The Daily Crunch 08/30/16 Will the new aliens we found help Apple pay its $14.5 billion EU tax bill? All that and more in The Daily Crunch for August 30, 2016. And if you're trying to figure out how to say "Hello" to that self-driving car you just met, have I got a startup for you. 1. Apple gets a $14.5 billion tax bill Typically when a big tech company gets hits with a penalty from some kind of governing body, the amounts are laughably small compared to the penalized company's coffers. But not so for a $14.5 billion bill the European Commission says Apple owes Ireland over what it identifies as unpaid corporate taxes. To be clear, this is the EC saying one of its member states is owed money because of violations of EU law, not Ireland itself claiming the back taxes are owed. And Tim Cook is not impressed. He's not impressed at length, in fact. 2. Drive.ai wants self-driving cars to be chattier as well as smarter A new startup is lifting the curtain on its product, an aftermarket autonomous driving system that includes not only steering, breaking and gas controls, but also a way to communicate the car's intent to humans around it, including other drivers and pedestrians. Autonomous cars are going to be the first robot most people interact with, their argument goes – they absolutely need to nail the social part of that arrangement. 3. Uber and Google's competition strains their official ties Speaking of self-driving cars, that's likely the primary cause of the increasing continental drift occurring between Uber and Google. David Drummond, longtime Alphabet SVP, has officially left Uber's board as a result of the increased competition between the two. That's not all that's going down: Uber has been hard at work ramping up its own mapping efforts, and I hear through the grapevine it wants Google entirely out of that part of its business as soon as possible. SPONSORED CONTENT: Meet Steph Curry At Disrupt SF On September 13, The Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry will partner with TechCrunch at Disrupt SF to host a charity fundraiser for Nothing but Nets, a global initiative to stop malaria. Attendees of this intimate reception will get to see a 15 minute Q&A moderated by Sport Illustrated's Rick Reilly, meet with Steph Curry, and have their photo taken with the NBA MVP. Your tax-deductible ticket can be purchased here. Learn More… 4. If aliens are receiving this, send me a sign Hello, is it me you're looking for? That might be the message SETI researchers in Russia received last May, but then again it might just be something else entirely. The just-disclosed transmission definitely merits more study, but the media was quick to jump on the possibility that this is aliens reaching out, when in all likelihood it isn't. But maybe it is. I want to believe. 5. Facebook's news robots can't be trusted Facebook got into a tangle it clearly didn't want any part of when it came out that a team of human news editors were actually curating trending news topics spit out by its algorithms. The problem with people is that they can have selection biases, which critics claimed might influence the political leaning of news appearing on FB. So, to fix the problem, FB went robot-only – which promptly resulted in totally fake news from a fake news outlet climbing the ranks. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. 6. ... and yet Zuck trusts FB AI to run his home Fact-checking news may not be the strong suit of Facebook-created AI, but apparently it can manage running Mark Zuckerberg's household just fine. The CEO was in Rome doing a Q&A when he started talking about his progress on his yearly challenge for 2016 – creating a smart home assistant that combines voice control with image recognition and connected device control. Billionaire problems need billionaire solutions. 7. 7 is for iPhone Day – Sept. 7 specifically iPhone Day is finally almost upon us – Apple sent out invites for a special event on September 7, which is... oh wow that's next week. New iPhones are basically a lock, but there should be lots more unveiled there as well, so keep it glued to TechCrunch on the day for all the news. Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Sr Software Engineer, Data Services at Walt Disney Studios (Burbank, CA, United States) Full Stack Engineer at Cadre (New York, NY, United States) Sr. Staff Software Engineer (BHB35) at Walt Disney Studios (Glendale, CA, United States) Sr. Systems Engineer - Studio Technology at Walt Disney Studios (Glendale, CA, United States) .Net Software Engineer at Express Scripts (Green Bay, WI) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service