Tesla Inc. shares rose in late trading after the electric car maker reported better-than-expected earnings per share, but it was the company’s disclosure of the sale of 75% of its bitcoin holdings that gained more attention. In the second quarter, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.27 on revenue of $16.93 billion. Analysts had ...

Email and collaboration security startup Perception Point Inc. has released a new web security solution that adds enterprise-grade security to native Chrome and Edge browsers. The new solution, Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, combines a next-generation web isolation platform powered by Hysolate Ltd., a startup acquired by the company in March 2022, and Perception Point’s multilayer detection engines. The ...

Market intelligence startup Crunchbase Inc. today revealed it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation and deepen relationships with dealmakers in sales, marketing, finance, recruiting and executive leadership roles. Alignment Growth led the Series D round, with OMERS Ventures, Mayfield and Emergence Capital also participating. Including the new funding, Crunchbase has raised $106.5 million to ...

Cybersecurity firm Sophos Group plc today announced a new service that helps organizations better defend against constantly changing and increasingly complex cyberattacks. Called Sophos X-Ops, the service is a cross-operational unit that links SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI, the company’s three established teams of cybersecurity experts. According to the company, Sophos X-Ops leverages each group’s predictive, real-time, ...

Blockchain security company Halborn Inc. revealed today that it has raised $90 million in a new early-stage funding round led by Summit Partners. Castle Island Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Brevan Howard also participated in the Series A round. Founded in 2019, Halborn offers cybersecurity for blockchain organizations that continually assesses an organization’s vital assets. The ...

Cloud services and servers hosted by Google LLC and Oracle Corp. in the U.K. suffered outages today from a record-breaking heatwave in the country. Temperatures in eastern England hit 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 F), the highest ever recorded in the country, causing cooling systems in data centers to struggle and some cases fail from the ...

Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over the Tesla chief executive’s attempt to cancel his acquisition deal will proceed in October after a Delaware Court today ruled against attempts by Musk to have the trial delayed until February. Lawyers representing Musk (pictured) applied for a delay in the trial late last week, claiming that Twitter ...

Information security and data privacy provider GhangorCloud Inc. today announced a new product that automates tasks associated with data discovery, classification, mapping and consumer privacy compliance enforcement. According to the company, the Compliance and Privacy Enforcement product delivers a highly scalable architecture that can be quickly deployed across enterprise and multicloud environments. Using an artificial intelligence-powered “eDiscovery Engine,” ...

Cybersecurity resiliency cloud provider Druva Inc. today announced it has expanded its portfolio with new data posture assessment and observability capabilities. Druva’s new cyberattack readiness tools are designed to give customers a centralized view of their data security posture, deep visibility into data entropy changes and the ability to assess data risks. Combined, the innovations ...

A new report today from Intel471 Inc. has detailed how hackers linked to the Conti ransomware gang are active again in the months following ContiLeaks. Conti was a prolific ransomware gang with a long list of victims. Conti victims include Ireland’s health service, Advantech Co. Ltd., voice-over-internet-protocol hardware and software maker Sangoma Technologies Corp., hospitals in Florida and Texas, Tesla Inc. ...