The next Uber CEO will be charged with sweeping up multitudes of corporate sins. In their in-tray will be a daunting array of problems and issues to resolve in the wake of Travis Kalanick’s high-profile departure last month.These include rehabilitating the company internally and externally as it recovers from scandals including the sexual harassment investigation that saw more than 20 people fired in June; video of Kalanick berating an Uber driver; and the company’s recent admission it had underpaid drivers in New York City by millions of dollars.Whoever that new CEO is, they will inherit the work of Arianna Huffington, the media operator turned sleep expert turned Uber rehabilitator-in-chief.

Netflix isn’t the only video service suffering form a hack: HBO has been breached as well. Hackers have gotten their mitts on 1.5 terabytes of data according to Entertainment Weekly, whoch apparently includes an episode of Ballers and Room 104 in addition to what may or may not be text related to next week’s Game of Thrones installment. The hackers promise more will be leaked.”Hi to all mankind. The greatest leak of cyber space era is happening,” an email to reporters says. ”What’s its name? Oh I forget to tell. Its [sic] HBO and Game of Thrones……!!!!!! You are lucky to be the first pioneers to witness and download the leak. Enjoy it & spread the words. Whoever spreads well, wi will have an interview with him. HBO is failing.”

Using “psychographic” profiles of individual voters generated from publicly stated interests really does work, according to new research presented at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.The controversial practice allows groups to hone their messages to match the personality types of their targets during political campaigning, and is being used by firms including Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ to better target voters with political advertising with so-called “dark ads”.“Before the referendum results, the concern we had was that people’s biases were being manipulated, either intentionally or unintentionally,” said Chris Sumner, research director and co-founder of the not-for-profit Online Privacy Foundation, who led the research. “Now we’ve seen this [research], I’m as concerned as I was before.

The creators of several Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have criticised Apple’s decision to remove their products from its App Store in China.The BBC understands that as many as 60 VPNs were pulled over the weekend.Apple said it was legally required to remove them because they did not comply with new regulations.It refused to confirm the exact number of apps withdrawn, but did not deny the figure. It added that dozens of legal VPN apps were still available.VPNs allow users to hide IP addresses and access online material that might be blocked by internet filters.Whoch VPNs have been affected?A company that analyses mobile app sales, www.aso100.com, has told the BBC that more than 60 VPNs were no longer available in Apple’s China mainland App Store.

People can now use Touch ID to authenticate their Apple ID, whether changing account settings or making a payment using a card linked to that account. Normally Touch ID is used to make purchases via Apple Pay, and in fact shoppers have to tap ”buy with other payment options” in the app to use an Apple ID.

Apple has also made it easier to see if a particular iPhone configuration is available at a nearby outlet. That could be particularly important come this fall, when the ”iPhone 7s” and ”iPhone 8” are expected to debut — the latter of whoch may be in short supply.

The app otherwise appears unchanged. It’s a free download from the App Store, and requires iOS 10 or later.

Using a cheap robot, a team of hackers has cracked open a leading-brand combination safe, live on stage in Las Vegas.The team from SparkFun Electronics was able to open a SentrySafe safe in around 30 minutes.The robot is able to reduce the number of possible combinations from one million to just 1,000, before quickly and automatically trying the remaining combinations until it breaks in.After the robot discovered the combination was 51.36.93, the safe popped open – to rapturous applause from the audience of several hundred hackers.SparkFun’s Nathan Siedle told the BBC: ”That was one of the scariest things we’ve done. Lots of things can go wrong, and this was a very big audience.