Software intelligence platform provider Dynatrace Inc. announced today that it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence-powered security and compliance solutions startup Runecast Solutions Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014, Runecast offers an AI-powered platform for security compliance, vulnerability assessment and configuration management in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The platform provides continuous compliance monitoring, ...

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Block Inc. are the two latest tech companies to announce layoffs, saying today that they’re cutting their workforces by 9% and 10%, respectively. First up was PayPal, with Bloomberg reporting that the layoffs will affect about 2,500 workers. The news of the layoffs was shared in a letter to staff on ...

Quantum computing company Quantinuum Ltd. and machine and internet of things identity platform provider Keyfactor Inc. announced a new partnership today to strengthen the root of trust with quantum entropy. The root of trust is a set of functions or components within a system that are always trusted and upon which the security of the entire system is ...

Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne Inc. today announced the general availability of WatchTower and WatchTower Pro, two new managed threat-hunting services designed to help support security teams in anticipating and countering threats in the enterprise. The two services were created to tackle the issue wherein organizations face a relentless pace of sophisticated cyberattacks that they must be able to ...

Cisco Systems Inc., along with Microsoft Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., today announced new meeting room solutions designed to deliver enhanced collaboration experiences for hybrid meetings. Announced at the Integrated Systems Europe conference in Barcelona, Spain, the new solutions are aimed at enabling seamless meetings for all through integrated video collaboration solutions for the Cisco ...

Microsoft Corp. and X Corp. today responded to the widespread sharing of artificial intelligence-generated explicit images of the singer Taylor Swift by making moves to stop the generation and sharing of such images. The explicit AI images of Swift first started being shared across social media, in particular X, last week, causing immediate outrage and ...

Share in F5 Networks Inc. rose nearly 9% in late trading today after the network traffic management and security firm surprised with revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal 2024 first quarter. For the quarter that ended Dec. 31, F5 reported earnings of $3.43 per share, up from $2.47 in the same quarter of the previous year, on ...

Venture capital-backed financial technology tartup Kueski Inc. has signed a deal with Amazon.com Inc. to become the first buy now, pay later provider on Amazon Mexico. Under the partnership announced today, Amazon customers who choose to use Kueski Pay for their purchase can select plans of up to 12 bi-weekly installments. A key feature of ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced plans to invest $10 billion to build two new data center complexes in Mississippi, with the project expected to create at least 1,000 new jobs in the state. The data centers are planned to be built in two Madison County industrial parks, with the financial backing of the Mississippi ...

The Biden administration is reportedly planning to apply new rules related to artificial intelligence on artificial intelligence and cloud companies that will result in their being required to report activities to the government. The first new rule reportedly involves the White House planning to use the Defense Production Act, a U.S. federal law that allows the ...