Shares of Rapid7 Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company beat second-quarter earnings and revenue estimates while disclosing plans to cut roughly 12% of its workforce. For the quarter ended on June 30, Rapid7 reported adjusted earnings of 44 cents per share, down from 58 cents a year earlier, on ...

Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group today said the extortion crew behind the retired BlackFile brand has spent June and July working its way through private equity firms, law firms and financial services companies. Reuters reports that the phishing domains registered for the campaign name their intended victims. Blackstone Inc., KKR & Co. Inc., Apollo Global ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today it has agreed to buy Taalas Inc., a Toronto startup that hardwires artificial intelligence models directly into silicon, in a deal that pushes the chipmaker deeper into the market for AI inference. Terms were not disclosed. AMD shares rose about 1.5% following the announcement. Founded in 2023, Taalas builds ...

Updated with Friday closing price: Shares of Atlassian Corp. surged more than 35% Friday day after the Australian collaboration software company beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and guided above forecasts for the year ahead. For the quarter that ended June 30, Atlassian reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.87, ...

Shares in Cloudflare Inc. were up more than 18% in late trading today after the content delivery network and security company beat second-quarter estimates and raised its full-year forecast. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Cloudflare reported adjusted earnings per share of 29 cents, up from 21 cents in the same quarter of ...

DXC Technology Co. today announced a partnership with security startup Primary that makes the information technology services company the exclusive managed services partner for Primary’s zero-trust platform for enterprise artificial intelligence. The joint offering governs how artificial intelligence agents and AI applications inside a company reach data. Identity checks and access policy sit in front ...

Edmonton, Alberta-based information technology consulting and managed services provider Framewerx Inc. today announced that it has acquired managed IT services firm AD Micro Technology Inc. Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1992, AD Micro operates out of Richmond, British Columbia. Its service lineup runs from IT support and networking through security, backup and cloud. The ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has partnered with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC to wire AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities directly into the tools developers write code in. The integrations cover Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex and Kiro, AWS’s own agentic development environment. A developer will be able to trigger a security ...

Shares in Block Inc. fell almost 2% in late trading today despite the payments and financial services company beating Wall Street expectations for second-quarter earnings and revenue and raising its full-year outlook for the second consecutive quarter. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Block reported adjusted earnings of $1.02 per share, up 65% ...

Cloudflare Inc. today launched Identity-Aware AI Gateway, a service that attaches a verified identity to every artificial intelligence request leaving a company network. Information technology and security teams can now see which employee or automated system sent a given prompt to a model provider. The service also lets them set spending limits for an individual ...