High-end electronics company Bose Corp. is abandoning its augmented reality program 18 months after it launched glasses that use audio for interactive service delivery. Bose’s “Frames,” launched in December 2018 were described at the time as the “world’s first audio augmented reality platform.” The glasses were said to take “micro-acoustics and voice control to an entirely new level, debuting ...

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. today launched a new public health transformation platform built on Salesforce that’s designed to help state and local governments modernize public health infrastructure in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic. Called GovConnect, the platform is designed to help organizations and governments chart a path forward through thought leadership, accelerators and assets ...

Australian enterprise cybersecurity firm Kasada Pty Ltd. announced today it has raised $10 million in new funding to fuel its expansion into the U.S., develop new products and build out its sales and marketing team. The Series B round was led by Ten Eleven Ventures and included Main Sequence Ventures and Reinventure. Ten Eleven Managing Partner Alex Doll has ...

A new venture capital fund has been established with an aim to raise €100 million ($113 million) to invest in blockchain startups. Called Meta Change Capital, the fund was established by Nikola Stojanow, co-founder of æternity blockchain and the creator of AE Ventures investment firm, to focus on funding blockchain development in emerging markets. “I see ...

Tween retailer Claire’s Stores Inc. is the latest victim of a Magecart attack in which the payment details of customers were stolen. Discovered by security researchers at Sansec BV and published today, the attack began in the last week of April and was present through June 13. Magecart is a form of attack that hijacks customer ...

The records of hundreds of thousands of users of a range of niche data apps have been exposed online in the latest case of a misconfigured cloud instance. Discovered by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar at vpnMentor and published today, the 845 gigabytes of data containing 2.5 million records related to dating apps, including ...

Six former eBay Inc. employees have been arrested over a cyberstalking campaign in which they targeted a couple who had been critical of the company. The employees are alleged to have started cyberstalking the couple from Natick, Massachusetts, during 2019. The unnamed couple publish an online newsletter covering e-commerce businesses and were critical of eBay’s ...

Intel Corp. today announced a new security capability called Control-Flow Enforcement Technology that delivers processor-level security structures to protect against common malware attack methods that have been a challenge to mitigate with software alone. First available on Intel’s Tiger Lake platform with Willow Cove microarchitecture, Intel CET is designed to protect against the misuse of ...

Enterprise data storage Infinidat Ltd. today announced it has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding. The Series D round came from existing investors TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Claridge Israel, ION Crossover Partners and Moshe Yanai, founder of Infinidat. Founded in 2011, Infinidat offers software-focused enterprise data storage architecture that is designed to solve the conflicting requirements of ...

Microsoft Corp.  has issued a warning that hackers are targeting Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes, to install cryptomining code. The attacks were first detected in April and involve hackers targeting Kubernetes nodes running Kubeflow. The nodes were not so much misconfigured but rather settings had been changed. In a blog post Wednesday, Yossi Weizman, security ...