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 ...

Artificial intelligence-powered email security platform provider Sublime Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $60 million in new funding to support its continued investment in its platform and community. Founded in 2019, Sublime Security offers an email security platform designed to protect businesses from evolving threats such as phishing, malware and business email compromise. ...

OpenAI today announced that it’s finally giving ChatGPT the ability to observe screens and live video to provide comments and feedback, a day after Google LLC launched similar features in Gemini 2.0. The features, which essentially give ChatGPT eyes, were first teased in May at the launch of the multimodal GPT-4o model, with fans waiting for ...

A new study out today from tech research site Comparitech delves into the online apps ahead of the holiday shopping period, revealing alarming privacy concerns for consumers. The study analyzed 91 popular shopping apps and discovered that the average app requests 26 permissions, with eight of those classified as “dangerous” by Android standards. Permissions that are classed as “dangerous” ...

Data security software provider Rubrik Inc. today announced the launch of Turbo Threat Hunting, a new feature designed to accelerate cyber recovery and allow organizations to locate clean recovery points in seconds. Rubrik Turbo Threat Hunting is focused on allowing customers to immediately identify clean recovery points and swiftly recover from cyber incidents with minimal operational disruption. ...

Supply chain and logistics management platform startup Cofactr Inc. announced today that it has raised $17.2 million in new funding to scale up its go-to-market efforts and grow its supply chain risk management and process tools suite. Founded in 2021, Cofactr offers a platform that integrates procurement automation, supply chain data intelligence and logistics infrastructure ...

Systems management, data protection and security software company Quest Software Inc. today announced two updates designed to accelerate the enterprise adoption of the open-source relational database management system PostgreSQL. With the new updates, customers can streamline migrations to PostgreSQL and then optimize its performance and availability. Combined, the two updates help enterprises embrace modern database ...

Artificial intelligence data analytics startup Dataiku Inc. today announced the launch of Dataiku Stories, a generative artificial intelligence-powered data storytelling solution that allows businesses to generate insights and transform company data into visual presentations. Designed to bridge the gap between static slide presentations and enterprise dashboards, Dataiku Stories allows businesses to use simple prompts to discover and ...