Microsoft Corp. is reportedly preparing to lay off hundreds of employees from its Azure cloud business amid ongoing layoffs across the tech industry as various tech companies seek to rein in costs. Business Insider, citing people familiar with the matter, claims that the layoffs will affect at least a couple of teams, including Azure for ...

Google LLC’s privacy practices are in the spotlight after, ironically, a database detailing its privacy investigations from 2013 and 2018 has been leaked. The database details a wide range of incidents across various Google apps and products, including Waze, YouTube and AdWords, that have not been previously made public. Obtained by 404 Media, it allegedly details ...

Data security startup Immuta Inc. today announced new data governance and audit capabilities for retrieval-augmented generation-based generative artificial intelligence solutions across multiple cloud platforms. Retrieval-augmented generation applications supply large language models with external knowledge sources to improve the accuracy and relevance of generated content. RAG-based models also retrieve pertinent information from external databases or documents, which is ...

OpenAI revealed in a blog post today that it identified and disrupted five covert influence operations in the last three months that were attempting to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes. The influence campaigns disrupted by OpenAI are claimed to have come from Russia, China, Iran and, surprisingly, Israel, although the Israeli campaign was ...

Asana Inc. impressed investors with its earnings report today, beating expectations on revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2025 first quarter. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Asana reported an adjusted loss per share of six cents, up from a loss of nine cents per share in the same quarter of last year, ...

Shares in Elastic N.V. rose nearly 8% in late trading after the enterprise-grade search software company today reported better-than-expected results in its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Elastic reported adjusted earnings per share of 21 cents on revenue of $335 million, the latter up 20% year-over-year. Both were beats, ...

It was a tale of different outcomes in security company quarterly earnings reports today, with Zscaler Inc. shares surging and SentinelOne Inc. falling, the latter on a missed metric on outlook. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Zscaler reported adjusted earnings per share of 88 cents, up from 48 cents in the same ...

The U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies, says it has taken down a large botnet and arrested its administrator, YunHe Wang. The botnet, called 911 S5, was allegedly used to commit cyberattacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats and export violations. The Justice Department claims that Wang and others ...

A day after it was reported that the infamous hacking site BreachForums had returned after yet another Federal Bureau of Investigation “takedown,” ShinyHunters, the hacking group that brought the site back, is now claiming to have stolen data related to 560 million Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC users. The post on BreachForums claims that the data includes ...

Share in Okta Inc. rose nearly 3% in late trading today after the identity and access management company reported earnings and revenue beats in its first quarter and also forecast an outlook higher than analyst expectations. For the quarter ended April 30, Okta reported adjusted earnings per share of 65 cents, up from 22 cents ...