Machine learning cyber security startup Darktrace Ltd. has raised $64 million Series C in a round led by KKR & Co. L.P. that included Summit Partners, TenEleven Ventures, and SoftBank. According to reports, the round was raised at a valuation of $400 million. Founded in 2013, Darktrace promotes itself as the leader in “Enterprise Immune ...

A form of Android malware called Hummingbad has been found to be on over 10 million devices globally, and would appear to be from the same firm that produces the Yispecter iOS malware, a security firm has revealed. Check Point explained in a blog post that the malware establishes a persistent rootkit on Android devices, ...

The hacker behind the infamous “celebgate/fappening” hacking scandal in 2014 that resulted in private images of celebrities appearing online has pleaded guilty. Edward Majerczyk, 28, of Chicago, stood accused of illegally accessing over 300 Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts. Majerczyk accessed the accounts by using a phishing scheme to obtain usernames and passwords for his ...

Big Data integration platform provider Talend SA has filed the paperwork to raise up to $86.25 million in an initial public offering (IPO). According to reports Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup and William Blair were leading the deal. Founded in 2005, Talend provides Big Data, Cloud, data integration, data management, Master Data Management, data quality, ...

Proving like many technologies before it, porn will drive the adoption of virtual reality. A VR porn festival held in the Tokyo district of Akihabara has been closed prematurely by police due to overcrowding. According to Hatenablog (in part translated by VR Talk) the VR porn festival highlighted a range of virtual reality technologies relating ...

Newly unsealed court documents in the case against disgraced former Secret Service agent and Silk Road bitcoin thief Shaun Bridges allege that further bitcoin was stolen after Bridge’s was initially arrested. The documents were revealed as part of the ongoing investigation of Bridges following his second arrest in February after he was found with a bag ...

Apple, Inc. has fired backed at claims from Spotify AB that they are being treated unfairly by claiming that Spotify is asking for exemptions to App Store rules that are applied equally to everyone. The row started last week when Spotify released a copy of a letter it sent to Apple’s lawyers which claimed that ...

In a surprising move Apple, Inc. is said to be in talks to acquire rival music streaming service Tidal (Aspiro AB). The Wall Street Journal claims that Apple is exploring the idea of acquiring Tidal to bolster its Apple Music service due of Tidal’s strong ties to popular artists. The talks between the two sides ...

The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla Motors, Inc. following the death of a driver who was using the company’s autopilot feature. Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old man from Ohio, died when a tractor-trailer drove across a highway in Florida perpendicular to his 2015 Model S; according to a blog post ...

Troubled mobile phone manufacturer HTC Corporation has made one of their best calls in years and has spun off their virtual reality (VR) division into a separate company. HTC Vive Tech Corporation, a fully owned division of HTC, will now be home to the HTC Vive VR headset, and according to a statement from the ...