Data management startup Alcion Inc. today announced that it has raised $21 million in new funding to support the general availability and global go-to-market expansion of the company’s artificial intelligence-driven backup-as-a-service platform for Microsoft 365. Founded in 2022, Alcion provides Microsoft 365 administrators with a platform to protect against ransomware, malware, corruption and accidental data loss. The company’s ...

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with cybersecurity company Novacoast Inc. to strengthen security operations and ensure comprehensive protection. The partnership sees Novacoast become the first LogRhythm Axon service provider to provide level one and level two analyst services — entry-level to intermediate-level technical support services — and custom content for the cloud-native ...

Updated with market reaction: Grocery delivery company Instacart today saw its shares soar 40% in their debut in the public market, a day after it raised $660 million in its initial public offering. The offering price of $30 a share topped an original guidance for $26 to $28 a share, but the shares opened trading ...

Google LLC and the U.S. Department of Defense are reportedly working on an artificial intelligence-enabled microscope project designed to help pathologists streamline their workflow without interrupting their established processes. Called the Augmented Reality Microscope, the microscope brings real-time machine learning into an optical microscope for applications in cancer diagnostics and other areas that rely on bright-field ...

Google LLC today announced an update to its Google Cloud Chronicle security service that includes the unified Chronicle Security Operations platform, a new service that delivers advanced capabilities around threat intelligence. The Chronicle Security Operations platform unifies security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR for short, as well security information and event management, known as ...

Industrial control system cybersecurity startup Dragos Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional $74 million in funding to bolster its ability to make ICS and operational-technology cybersecurity more accessible worldwide. Founded in 2016, Dragos offers an industrial threat detection and response platform that provides ICS cybersecurity teams with components required to detect and respond to ...

Automated evaluation and security platform Patronus AI Inc. today launched out of stealth mode and announced that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. Founded by machine learning experts Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian, both former Meta Platforms Inc. employees, Patronus has been designed to tackle the difficulties of evaluating artificial intelligence outputs and ...

Details of police officers have been stolen following a ransomware attack on a third-party supplier that makes ID cards for a police force in the U.K. The attack involved a ransomware attack on Stockport that resulted in the theft of personal details of police officers and staff employed by the Greater Manchester Police.  The exact ...

Artificial intelligence efficiency platform startup Granica Computing Inc. today announced Chronicle, a new generative artificial intelligence-powered software-as-a-service solution that provides visibility and analytics into how data is accessed in cloud object stores. Granica, which launched with $45 million in funding in June, offers a platform designed to help petabyte-scale Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 and Google Cloud Storage ...

Data analytics acceleration startup NeuroBlade Ltd. today announced that it has teamed up with Meta Platforms Inc.’s Velox community to open source hardware acceleration to the Velox execution engine by integrating NeuroBlade’s SQL Processing Unit. The open-source hardware integration to the Velox execution engine delivers seamless integration of NeuroBlade’s SPU technology to yield acceleration of more than ...