After several months of speculation that a deal was being discussed, it’s now official: Nvidia Corp. has acquired Arm Holdings Ltd. from owner SoftBank Group Corp. in a $40 billion deal that’s one of the largest in technology this year. Under the terms of the deal announced today, Nvidia will pay $21.5 billion in stock and $12 billion ...

More than 100,000 customer records belonging to Razer Inc. have been found exposed online in yet another case of a company failing to secure its online storage. Discovered and publicized today by security researcher Bob Diachenko, the exposed data included full names, emails, phone numbers, customer internal IDs, order numbers, order details, billing and shipping addresses. Razer, ...

Property technology startup Open Door Labs Inc. is set to go public via a merger with an existing listed company, according to a report today from Bloomberg. Quoting people with knowledge with the matter, the report claims that Opendoor is looking to merge with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II. Social Capital is listed on the New ...

Election hacking is back in the news: Microsoft Corp. today warned that state-sponsored hacking groups are targeting both the Trump and the Biden U.S. presidential campaigns. The advisory from Microsoft points the finger at three countries — Russia, China and Iran — as being behind attacks, said to be targeting “people and organizations involved in the upcoming ...

Container and Kubernetes threat detection startup StackRox Inc. announced today it has raised $26.5 million in new funding to expand in key geographies and support research and development efforts. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Highland Capital Partners, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures. As part of the deal, Menlo Ventures partner Venky ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency has issued an advisory relating to critical vulnerabilities in CodeMeter, software used in industrial control systems. The vulnerabilities, six in total affecting all versions of CodeMeter from 6.90 through 7.10, have been given a collective Common Vulnerability Scoring System score of 10.0, the highest level ...

Penetration testing platform startup Pcysys Ltd. today said it has raised $25 million in new funding to expand the company’s sales and delivery teams and further develop its technology. The Series B round was led by Insight Partners and included existing investors Awz Ventures and the Blackstone Group. Founded in 2015, Pcysys — an acronym for “proactive cyber systems” ...

Software platform startup Unity Software Inc. is planning to raise as much as $1.05 billion in an initial public offering that will value the company at $11.06 billion. The IPO was announced Aug. 24, with further details coming to light today via a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Along with saying that ...

Schools in Hartford, Connecticut, have been delayed from reopening following a ransomware attack that shut down critical information technology systems. Details of the attack are a little vague. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said the attack started on Thursday and then on Saturday as well, with the outage described as “the most extensive and significant attack ...

The empire struck back today, as Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against Epic Games Ltd. for breach of contract in the latest battle between the two companies. The battle between the two companies started with Epic filing a lawsuit against Apple Aug. 13 alleging that the App Store is an illegal monopoly after Fortnite, the world’s most popular ...