Electronic signature and agreement cloud company DocuSign Inc. today announced it’s laying off about 9% of its workforce to support its growth and profitability objectives and to improve its operating margin. CNBC reported that as of January, DocuSign had 7,651 employees. The cuts are expected to be completed by the end of the company’s fiscal year ...

Fresh from winning an auction to acquire the assets of now-defunct crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital Ltd., the U.S. arm of FTX Trading Ltd. is reportedly considering bidding for the assets of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform provider Celsius Network LLC.  The claim comes from Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the matter late Tuesday. The report claims that ...

A new report from Google Cloud has surprisingly found that the biggest predictor of an organization’s application-development security processes is cultural, not technical, among other findings on application security. The 8th Annual State of DevOps report released today by Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment team focused on security this year given that more than 22 ...

Intel Corp. today announced it’s opening up its “Project Amber” pilot program and already has two companies signed up: professional services firm Leidos Holdings Inc. and consulting giant Accenture plc. Project Amber was announced in May and provides organizations with remote verification of trustworthiness in cloud, edge and on-premises environments. Designed to address growing security ...

New research from Akamai Technologies Inc. has found that about 20% of all new domain names registered, some 79 million, were registered for malicious purposes in the first half of the year. The research was based on queries through Akamai CacheServer instances that currently handle more than 80 million DNS queries per second, or 7 ...

Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. said today it’s freezing all hiring in the U.S. through the end of the year amid uncertain economic conditions and rising inflation. Reuters reported that the company, which cut 60 jobs in its rental division in July, has been battling surging expenses amid the highest inflation in the U.S. in 40 years. ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped in after-hours trading today after the company reported mixed results in its latest quarter. For its second quarter ended Aug. 31, BlackBerry reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of $29 million, or five cents per share, compared with a loss of $33 million, or six cents per ...

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced enhanced AI operations capabilities across its entire networking portfolio, including the industry’s first artificial intelligence-based network operations management for 5G/LTE gateways. The new AIOps capabilities are designed to address the increasing need for network operations center or NOC teams to deal with accelerated digital innovation and the continued growth in the hybrid ...

Big-data application performance monitoring firm Unravel Data Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate what it believes is the next generation of DataOps observability. Third Point Ventures led the Series D round, with Bridge Bank, Menlo Ventures, Point 72, GGV Capital and Harmony Capital also participating. Including the new funding, the company ...

The Ukrainian government warned today that Russia is planning to carry out “massive cyberattacks” against power grids and other critical infrastructure in both Ukraine and allied countries. The warning claims that the attacks will be similar to those that targeted Ukraine’s energy supplies in 2015 and 2016. Russia is trying to increase the effect of missile ...