Critical infrastructure cybersecurity company OPSWAT Inc. announced today that it has acquired Fend Inc., a cybersecurity company specializing in industrial network segmentation, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2017, Fend specializes in cybersecurity hardware designed to protect critical infrastructure across sectors such as energy, water and manufacturing. The company’s data diodes enforce a physically isolated, ...

The private equity market may see its first significant slowdown in fundraising activity in five years, according to the annual 2025 US Private Equity Outlook report published by PitchBook Data Inc. early Tuesday. The rather glum outlook is forecast due to contributing factors, including longer fundraising timelines, declining dry powder reserves and fewer megafunds expected ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency has released a draft update to the National Cyber Incident Response Plan that addresses significant changes in policy and cyber operations since the plan was first released in 2016. The NCIRP is a strategic framework that establishes how to undertake a coordinated response to cyber incidents along four lines: ...

Some 1.4 million records relating to students, staff and patients at the Texas Tech University’s Health Science Center and El Paso Health Sciences Center have been stolen in an apparent ransomware attack. Officially, the attack is described as a “cybersecurity event” by the university and took place in September. According to a statement from Texas ...

Artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the launch of Palmyra Creative, a AI large language model purpose built to elevate creative thinking and writing across various professions. Palmyra Creative has been designed to bring depth, variety and originality to tasks. The LLM supports professionals in brainstorming fresh ideas, refining creative outputs and solving complex ...

Nexla Inc., a data integration platform for generative artificial intelligence, today announced the integration of Nvidia Corp.’s NIM microservices and accelerated computing to enable faster, simpler and more cost-efficient development of production-grade retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. Production-grade RAG pipelines for enterprise AI applications combine advanced data retrieval and generative AI capabilities to create highly accurate, context-aware responses. ...

Artificial intelligence-powered marketing platform company Jasper Inc. today announced the launch of Jasper Studio, a new service that gives marketers the ability to design and deploy AI apps and workflows, along with new native Slack integration. Jasper Studio has been designed to “democratize AI” for every marketer by giving teams greater agility while ensuring that ...

An unknown threat actor has stolen data belonging to potentially hundreds of thousands of residents of Rhode Island in a cyberattack and is threatening to release the data if a payment is not made. The cyberattack was first detected on Dec. 5 when Rhode Island state officials were informed by its technology vendor, Deloitte Touche ...

Apple Inc. is reportedly developing a giant foldable iPad that could come to market around 2028, according to the latest reports of the iPhone maker exploring foldable devices as the technology matures in Android products. The latest claim comes from the usually reliable Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who claims that Apple is developing ...

Voice artificial intelligence agent startup Vapi announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand its engineering team and its infrastructure and reach new enterprise customers. Founded in 2023 as Superpowered Labs Inc., Vapi offers a developer platform for deploying AI-powered voice agents. It gives developers access to flexible application programming interfaces ...