Morning Tech Crawl: Uber settles two key lawsuits

Ride-hailing service Uber has reached a settlement deal in two class action lawsuits that will see it pay as much as $100 million to the drivers represented in the cases, but will allow it to keep categorizing them as independent contractors, rather than employees.

Facebook recently announced every user of the most updated version of the Facebook Messenger app will be able to make and participate in group calls via the app. According to the announcement, the function should have rolled out to every user by this morning, so planning for brunch this weekend may be easier than ever before. Facebook Messenger doesn't support group video chat yet, but this should tide you over until then.

More than 40 plaintiffs suing Ashley Madison, an online dating service catering to married people seeking an affair, must be publicly identified if they wish to proceed in court, a federal judge ruled. In the wake of a now-infamous cyber attack, personal data of millions of potentially adulterous users was stolen. Now, some of them hope "to reduce the risk of potentially catastrophic personal and professional consequences that could befall them and their families," according to court papers. But Judge John A. Ross of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri said other court cases have found that embarrassment was an insufficient excuse to remain unidentified in court.

Dell Inc.'s cybersecurity business SecureWorks is the first tech company to go public in 2016, but according the company's initial public offering on Thursday, they've earned about 25 less than they'd hoped. Cybersecurity might be hot right now, but SecureWorks raised about $112 million instead of the $150 million the company was seeking.