Blockchain gaming platform startup Animoca Brands Corp. Ltd. said today it has raised $75.32 million in new funding to fund strategic acquisitions, investments and product development, secure licenses for popular intellectual properties and advance the open metaverse. The investors in the round included Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Alpha Wave Ventures, 10T, SG Spring Limited Partnership ...

Twitter Inc. today filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk to force him to follow through on the original deal to acquire the microblogging company. The lawsuit, filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, alleges that Musk (pictured) refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders “because the deal he ...

The founders of cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. have allegedly gone missing and are not cooperating with the company’s liquidation. Three Arrows Capital was ordered to liquidate by a court in the British Virgin Islands on June 27 after creditors sued the company following its default on debts amid the ongoing crypto winter. ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has today announced the general availability of its Redshift Serverless alongside EMR Serverless and MSK Serverless, services that are designed to make it easier for customers to analyze large amounts of data without having to configure, scale up or manage the underlying infrastructure. Redshift Serverless offers a serverless data warehouse to tens of thousands ...

Network security company Tenable Inc. today announced the addition of Nessus Expert to its portfolio of vulnerability assessment solutions. The service is designed to give security consultants, penetration testers and security practitioners extended external capabilities and expanded visibility into cloud-native environments. Nessus Expert is claimed to be the first service to address managing external assets and cloud configurations head-on. ...

DevSecOps automation tools startup Rezilion Inc. today announced the full availability of its new, automated vulnerability management solution. Designed to identify, prioritize and remediate vulnerable software, Rezilion’s new management solution is pitched as uniquely solving challenges in the software attack surface by applying automation at all critical stages in the software security workflow, providing security teams with ...

In an evolution in ransomware and data extortion, gangs are reported to be now offering the ability to search stolen data in an effort to have victims pay ransom demands. Bleeping Computer reported today that the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang was the first to offer the feature, announcing that they have created a searchable database with leaks ...

Apple Inc.’s Project Titan self-driving car project continues to be troubled, with a new report detailing delays and issues with the company’s efforts. The Information today detailed a chronology of the car, covering aspects of its development, Apple’s ability to retain talent and issues with the technology it’s trying to use. Although some of the report ...

Technology company and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. has reportedly ended talks to acquire some or all of the controversial Israeli spyware maker NSO Group Ltd. L3Harris was first reported to be in talks with NSO on June 14, although what it attempted to acquire was unclear. One report suggested that L3Harris was interested in acquiring only NSO’s ...

A trove of more than 100,000 documents belonging to Uber Technologies Inc. leaked to The Guardian and then shared with other media outlets and organizations details how the company used dubious tactics and lobbying to grow its business. Dubbed the Uber Files, the leak consists of 124,000 documents, including more than 83,000 emails, iMessage and ...