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HP beats on Q2 earnings and revenue as commercial PC demand rebounds
HP Inc. reported revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal 2026 second-quarter results today, with stronger-than-expected demand for commercial PCs driving 9% revenue growth at the personal computer and printer maker. For the quarter ended on April 30, HP reported adjusted earnings per share of 86 cents, up from 71 cents in the same quarter ...
Aztec Labs acquires ZKPassport maker Obsidion as age verification pressure mounts
Blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Obsidion Labs Ltd., the British startup behind zero-knowledge identity protocol ZKPassport. The deal comes as governments in the U.K., Australia and parts of the U.S. move to force online platforms to verify user ages without giving them a workable way to do it. ...
XM Cyber rolls out tools to identify and revoke unused permissions across hybrid environments
Continuous exposure management company XM Cyber Inc. today announced an expansion of its platform with new capabilities aimed at helping enterprises enforce least-privilege access across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra and multicloud environments. The company is targeting one of the most exploited weaknesses in modern enterprise security: excessive permissions. Overprovisioned identities give attackers ready-made paths for ...
Cogent Security launches autonomous vulnerability response tools as AI-assisted exploits outpace scanners
Cogent Security Inc., a startup that employs agentic artificial intelligence for vulnerability management, today launched two new platform capabilities aimed at compressing enterprise vulnerability response from weeks to hours, as AI-assisted exploit development shrinks attacker timelines to a matter of minutes. The company introduced Zero Day Response and Autonomous Remediation, two features designed to close ...
Doppel launches agentic email security to disrupt phishing campaigns at the source
Social engineering defense startup Doppel Inc. today launched Doppel Email Security, an agentic artificial intelligence layer that traces phishing messages back to attacker infrastructure and orchestrates takedowns of the broader campaign rather than quarantining individual emails. The product joins Doppel’s existing Digital Risk Protection and Human Risk Management offerings on a unified platform aimed at ...
Xage extends zero trust to autonomous AI agents across cloud, SaaS and edge
Zero-trust cybersecurity company Xage Security Inc. today unveiled new capabilities in its platform designed to give enterprises deterministic visibility into autonomous artificial intelligence agents and block them from taking unauthorized actions when compromised. The release introduces two components, Xage Agent Sentry and Xage Resource Gateway, that the company says together can wrap an AI agent ...
Cisco report finds no closed frontier AI model is safe from multi-turn attacks
A new report out today from Cisco Systems Inc. argues that none of the closed flagship large language models it tested can be considered safe once an attacker is allowed to push past a single prompt, as adversarial success rates climb sharply across every model in the cohort. The Cisco AI Threat Research team measured ...
Zscaler tops estimates and lifts guidance, but free cash flow cut sends shares lower
Shares of Zscaler Inc. plunged more than 19% in late trading today after the cloud security company reported beats on earnings and revenue in its third quarter. It also raised its full-year revenue and earnings outlook but slashed its free cash flow margin guidance on higher planned capital expenditure. For the quarter ended April 30, ...
Rambus targets agentic AI workloads with faster client memory chipset
Rambus Inc. today announced a complete DDR5 9600 client memory module chipset designed to push PC memory speeds to 9,600 megatransfers per second, targeting the bandwidth and capacity demands of agentic artificial intelligence workloads on desktops and laptops. The new offering from the chip and silicon intellectual property company combines a second-generation client clock driver, ...
Novee debuts Agentic Fix, pushing pentest findings into Claude, Copilot and Cursor
Artificial intelligence penetration testing startup Novee Cyber Security Ltd. today launched Agentic Fix, a new capability that pushes validated exploit findings directly into the AI coding agents developers already use to write and patch software. The product extends the Novee platform by generating remediation guidance from the same exploit context used to uncover a vulnerability. ...









