Mixed-reality sensor and peripherals maker Leap Motion Inc. has launched a new augmented reality platform called Project North Star that aims to deliver $100 AR headsets with hand tracking. Leap Motion, best known for its hand tracking hardware development, sees Project North Star as an open AR platform, releasing hardware specifications and software under an open-source license to ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s deal to sell its Southeast Asian operations to Grab Taxi Pte. Ltd. is facing regulatory pushback in the region as a number of countries have expressed concern about the deal lessening competition in local markets. Leading the pack is the Philippines, where the country’s antitrust agency on Saturday ordered Uber to continue ...

A cyberattack that targeted a number of countries, in particular Iran, has presented users with an American flag and a message in English reading, “Don’t mess with our elections.” The attack, which at least according to the Iranian government took place Friday night, is said to have infiltrated 200,000 routers worldwide, including 3,500 in the ...

Blockchain analysis startup Chainalysis Inc. today said it has raised $16 million in new funding in a Series A round led by Benchmark Capital. Founded in 2014, Chainalysis offers a blockchain intelligence platform that aims to help customers prevent, detect and investigate cryptocurrency money laundering, fraud and compliance violations. Using the company’s platform, customers can visualize and investigate ...

Business intelligence startup Domo Inc. is planning to go public according to a report published Thursday. Recode, quoting sources, said Domo held an “organizational meeting” last week, which “generally serves as the formal kickoff in advance of an IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.” The report also claimed that the company is pursuing a confidential filing with ...

Microsoft Corp. today rolled out changes to its OneDrive cloud storage service and Office 365 aimed at providing users better protection from cybercrime. The changes are headlined by a new file recovery capability that allows customers to recover files going back as far as 30 days in the event of a ransomware attack. Although the ...

Russia has long been all over the place on cryptocurrency regulations, at times looking to ban them, then seemingly looking to legalize them. Now, the country has both embraced and seemingly spoken out against cryptocurrencies all in the same week. Likely driven by reports that the country was planning to regulate cryptocurrencies last month, Russia’s third-largest bank, ...

For the second month in a row, Microsoft Corp. has released a security-related patch ahead of its traditional “Patch Tuesday” release, addressing a critical vulnerability in its Windows Defender security software. The patch released by Microsoft today directly addresses a vulnerability called CVE2018-0986. It affects the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, a core component of Windows ...

At least five separate U.S. pipeline companies have been forced to shut down their communications systems or have suffered downtime after an outside company used by them was compromised in the latest attack on the energy industry. The hack targeted Latitude Technologies Inc., a division of Energy Services Group LLC, a private equity-owned company that provides business ...

A new report from data security firm Varonis Systems Inc. has found that enterprises are often their own worst enemy when it comes to security by exposing confidential files and folders to employees who did not require access to them. The report, “Data Under Attack: 2018 Global Data Risk Report,” found that on average, 21 ...