Collaborative design software startup Figma Inc. today announced that it has confidentially filed S-1 paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public, some 16 months after Adobe Inc. ended its attempts to acquire Figma for $20 billion. Founded in 2012, Figma offers a suite of cloud-based tools that are designed to streamline the design ...

Cloud networking company Cato Networks Ltd. today introduced generative artificial intelligence security controls for Cato Cloud Access Security Broker, including a shadow AI dashboard and policy engine. The new shadow AI dashboard allows enterprises to detect, analyze and gain insights into the use of generative AI, while the policy engine gives enterprises the power to take control ...

Artificial intelligence-powered enterprise resource planning and data platform startup Doss announced today that it has raised $18 million in new funding to expand internationally and to continue to build out its core platform. Founded in 2022, Doss offers an ERP and data platform designed to streamline and automate complex business operations. The company’s flagship product, ...

Cyberfraud protection startup DataDome SAS today announced advancements to its platform and partner ecosystem that are focused on putting businesses back in control of how artificial intelligence agents access and interact with digital assets. The advancements seek to address the growing need of enterprises to deal with the rapid rise of large language models, crawlers and automated ...

Software supply chain startup NetRise Inc. announced today that it has raised $10 million in new funding to accelerate its mission to address the critical security gap in detecting and responding to software supply chain risk. Founded in 2020, NetRise specializes in software supply chain security with a platform that provides visibility into firmware and ...

The Certification Authority Browser Forum has voted to reduce Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security certificates to 47 days by March 2029, in a move that will radically alter existing security practices. The forum is a consortium of certificate authorities, web browser vendors and other industry stakeholders that sets security standards and best practices for digital certificates ...

Breach containment company Illumio Inc. today announced the launch of Illumio Insights, a cloud detection and response solution powered entirely by an artificial intelligence security graph. The new Illumio Insights can observe and protect every workload and resource, including across hybrid and multicloud environments. The service provides AI-powered observability into an organization’s traffic, flows and connections, surfacing ...

Apple Inc. is seemingly adopting an ethos of “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” amid a report that the company is readying two new Vision Pro headsets to replace its failed first attempt at entering the mixed reality headset market. Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who is usually fairly accurate about ...

All new technologies have their tipping points where they go from enthusiast to mainstream. Artificial intelligence, a term coined by John McCarthy in 1956 that has long held the imagination of many, has seemingly now hit that tipping point, but not for the reason scientists and science fiction writers could have guessed: Japanese anime cartoons. ...

A new report out today from SentinelLabs, the research arm of cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc., details a recently discovered artificial intelligence-powered spam tool that automates large-scale abuse of website contact forms and chat widgets by bypassing CAPTCHA protections. First observed in late 2024, “AkiraBot” has successfully targeted at least 80,000 of more than 400,000 websites scanned, primarily ...