Microsoft Corp. made its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service generally available globally today, delivering on a promise it first made in December. WVD allows enterprises to give their employees access to virtualized applications and remote desktops anywhere, anytime. The service is designed to support Windows 10 with optimizations for Office 365. In addition, the service ...

Venezuela’s central bank is looking into ways to hold bitcoin and Ethereum and use them for financial transactions, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg late last week. The push is said to be coming from state-run oil company Petroloeos de Venezuela SA, which wants support for cryptocurrencies to pay the company’s suppliers. Socialist Venezuela is subject to numerous ...

German police have arrested seven people following a raid on an illegal data center in a former NATO military bunker that was hosting “dark web” sites promoting illegal content. The raid, which took place in the town of Traben-Trarbachsaw, saw the arrest of the owner of the bunker, an unnamed 59-year-old Dutchman and six others with ...

Commercial real estate-focused artificial intelligence startup Okapi today said it has raised $5.5 million in funding to expand its headcount and marketing. The Series A round was led by Marius Nacht, the co-founder and chairman of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Founded in 2017, Palo Alto, California-based Okapi uses AI and machine learning to “help major ...

European aircraft maker Airbus SE apparently has been hit by a number of cyberattacks that targeted the computer systems of its key suppliers in what is believed to be a coordinated campaign by hackers with links to China. The claim came today from the AFP news agency, which said the hacks targeted aircraft engine market ...

Copying an experiment that started with Instagram in July, Facebook Inc. is testing hiding the number of “likes,” reactions and views that a post gets. Starting with users in Australia, the social media giant is seeking to measure if the change encourages more meaningful interactions on its platform. As with a similar Instagram trial which ...

Food delivery service provider DoorDash Inc. has suffered a data breach and the records of some 4.9 million customers, delivery providers and merchants have been stolen. DoorDash said the breach, which was detected May 4, involved unauthorized activity on a third-party service provider. The data only related to customers, delivery providers and merchants who had joined ...

Cloud-based encryption software company StrongSalt said today it has raised $3 million in seed funding from Valley Capital Partners to build out its encryption platform-as-a-service offering for developers and enterprises. Founded in 2017 in Sunnyvale, California, StrongSalt, formally named Overnest Inc., is developing an encrypted search and share protocol that offers an application programming interface platform to allow ...

Exposing user data on unsecured cloud storage has become a broken record this year, one that won’t stop playing. The latest one came today from Heyyo, an online adult dating app. Discovered and publicized today by security researchers at WizCase, the breach involved Heyyo data found exposed on an unsecured Elasticsearch database. The data involved 77,000 ...

Updated: Connected fitness technology firm Peloton Interactive Inc. Wednesday set its initial public offering price at $29 per share ahead of its debut on the Nasdaq exchange, but investors weren’t all that impressed when shares debuted Thursday morning. Priced at the high end of its original price estimate of $26 to $29 per share, the IPO saw Peloton ...