DNC hires ex-Uber engineer as its chief technology officer

The Democratic National Committee has selected ex-Twitter VP Raffi Krikorian as its chief technology officer. Krikorian was until recently the senior director of engineering at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, but left the company in February. The DNC had plenty of cyber troubles during the election — most notably an email hack, information from which was […]

Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick knew about stolen Waymo files, lawyers say

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, recently departed Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was aware that an engineer he hired from Google had allegedly stolen files from that company, and told the new employee not to bring the files to his new job. Those files are pertinent to an ongoing patent lawsuit over […]

Ex-Uber Engineer Says the Company Has a Culture of Sexual Harassment

Image: Getty Uber is not known for treating its drivers particularly well, but it gets worse: According to allegations from an ex-engineer Susan J. Fowler, the ridesharing app has a culture of misogyny, and threatened to fire her after she reported sexual harassment. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has already responded to the allegations, saying in […]