Analytics and observability firm PagerDuty Inc. today launched new capabilities and upgrades to its PagerDuty Operations Cloud that are designed to assist in the resolution of operational issues and increase revenue. The new capabilities are pitched as helping enterprises modernize their operations centers by standardizing automation practices, transforming management and automating remote-location operations. With the ...

Decentralized social network protocol startup Farcaster said today it has raised $150 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to further grow its user base and add new in-protocol features such as channels and direct messaging. Founded in 2021, Farcaster offers a decentralized social network protocol that allows developers to build interoperable applications where users ...

Artificial intelligence safety platform startup WitnessAI Inc. today launched as it announced it has raised $27.5 million in funding from GV Management Co. LLC and Ballistic Ventures LLC to accelerate the development of new AI safeguards. WitnessAI’s path to becoming a venture capital-backed startup isn’t typical as it was founded and incubated in 2023 by ...

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a new integration with application monitoring and security platform provider Datadog Inc. that gives developers visibility into logs for JFrog-managed instances of Artifactory in the cloud. The integration sees JFrog SaaS Log Streamer integrating with Datadog to allow organizations to increase efficiency by enabling users to select and prioritize the most ...

Email and collaboration security startup Perception Point Inc. today announced a new partnership with cloud commerce marketplace provider Pax8 Inc. that will provide access to Perception Point’s advanced threat prevention solution to allow Pax8 partners to safeguard their customers. The partnership sees Perception Point providing Pax8 customers with threat protection covering email, Micorosft 365 collaboration apps such ...

A new report out today from venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners details the challenges faced by chief information security officers and other senior security staff, ranging from security risks to funding problems, with some interesting takeaways on how resources are not keeping up with increasing cybersecurity demands. The Scale Ventures Cybersecurity Perspectives 2024 report ...

A new report from cybersecurity training company Immersive Labs Inc. released today is warning of a dark side to generative artificial intelligence that allows people to trick chatbots into exposing company secrets. The “Dark Side of GenAI” report delves into the generative AI-related risk of a prompt injection attack. It involves individuals inputting specific instructions into generative ...

New Australian generative artificial intelligence startup SpatialGPT.AI Pty. Ltd. has raised AU$5.1 million ($3.4 million) in seed funding to redefine spatial environments across the architecture, construction, education, healthcare and retail sectors. Announced today, the funding came from InnovateGPT Pty. Ltd., a company founded by George Stavrakakis and Rupert Walsh, both veteran Microsoft Australia employees. SpatialGPT’s ...

Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. fell nearly 9% in late trading today after the network management and security firm reported beats in its fiscal third quarter but disappointed investors with its fourth-quarter forecast. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Palo Alto Networks reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.32, up from $1.10 ...

Google LLC has released a new emergency Chrome browser security update following the emergence of a new zero-day security vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-4947, the zero-day vulnerability is a “type confusion bug” in V8 in Google Chrome prior to version 125.0.6422.60 that allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary ...