Stories by IDG News Service staff

Ford drives into car-sharing... U.S. government ranked last on app security... Google intros free music streaming... and more tech news.

Privacy group demands Uber probe... Europol hunts Isis online... Oracle goes all-in on the cloud... and more tech news.

Taylor Swift shames Apple into paying musicians royalties during streaming trial

Google offers a look inside its data centers...Facebook won't have a Moment in Europe just yet...Samsung promises to fix Galaxy hole...and more tech news.

Microsoft reshuffles executives... Uber goes to court to deny driver rights... AT&T faces $100M fine over unlimited data limitations... and more tech news

Baseball gets a hacking scandal... Airbus plans Internet satellites... European court holds site liable for comments... and more tech news.

Civil liberties faction walks out on facial recognition talks

IBM bets on Spark...report claims Russia, China cracked Snowden files..Alibaba preps video streaming...and more tech news.

Twitter CEO Costolo steps down...Oculus shows consumer Rift...Amazon's e-books deals get an antitrust look...and more tech news.

Google gets on smart cities bandwagon... eBay, PayPal hit a nerve with robocall provision in use terms... Spotify arms for battle with Apple... and more tech news.

At the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, the team leader from NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory discusses their robot's next assignment - the possibility of assisting with assembly of items in space.

Musk confirms SpaceX satellite Internet plans...Apple Music probed for antitrust violations...North Korea rattles cyber-saber...and more tech news.

Apple day brings music streaming, iOS 9, El Capitan Mac OS... Facebook broadens reach of Place Tips... SEA hacks US Army site... and more tech news.

South Korea wins robotics challenge... Apple WWDC kicks off... Sprint aims for network upgrade... and more tech news

Hackers steal data on 4 million government workers...Facebook slims down Android app...privacy-for-service seen as poor tradeoff...and more tech news.