Huntress announced general availability of the Managed ITDR Lookback feature. It reviews up to 180 days of Microsoft 365 login history for newly onboarded tenants, looking for compromises that predate monitoring. Active compromises trigger a critical Incident Report, SOC investigation and session revocation. Previously remediated ones are…
On Tuesday Google released TorchTPU as an open-source project. It lets PyTorch AI applications run on Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and Google Cloud through a configuration change, with no application rewrite. A day earlier Amazon announced TorchNeuron, which ports PyTorch apps to its Trainium chip and AWS. Amazon is also submit…
Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in its 2021 Series A, according to Bloomberg. Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO, is said to hold about 2%. Anthropic is widely expected to go public before the end of the year, with top-end estimates valuing it at up to $2…
Meta's AI companion app Muse has reached 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10.2 million of them in the United States, according to Sensor Tower. Only 11 other apps have reached 10 million U.S. downloads within 40 days of launch. The most recent was Threads in July 2023, and most of the others were mobile games. Muse is ava…
OpenAI says its newer models are much better at writing and migrating code in legacy languages such as COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic. The company cites the importance of these languages to critical infrastructure: COBOL reportedly supports over 40% of online banking systems, 80% of in-person card transactions and 95% of ATM transactions…
This TechCrunch Equity interview features Amulya Vishwanath, founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI. She is a former Nvidia product marketer. She argues that robotics has not yet had its "ChatGPT moment" and is in a "LEGO era", in which foundational software and hardware building blocks such as…
JustWatch Group, the company behind the streaming guide used by 50 million people, launched JustWatch TV on 2026-10-20. It is its own streaming service, available in the existing JustWatch apps and website in 12 markets, including the U.S., U.K., Germany and France. The service has an ad-supported free tier, an ad-free JustWatch TV Plus t…
A Dark Reading roundtable, reported by Arielle Waldman, discusses how AI is complicating security across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Participants found that three measures give CISOs a path forward: closer collaboration between teams, better visibility into identities in development environments, and lower testing costs. Th…
IT Security Guru published an editorial buyer's guide to cybersecurity thought leadership agencies for 2026. It describes the services of ten firms and offers evaluation criteria for buyers. The article reports no incident, vulnerability, threat actor or indicator, so it has no direct defender impact. It is marketing and industry news onl…
Electric Plant, a startup co-founded by CEO Justin Mast and neuroscientist Lee von Kraus, raised an $11.2 million seed round led by Onto Ventures and Climactic. The company is commercializing low-cost plant-mounted sensors and Bombadil, a model trained on electrical signals from about 125 plant species. The goal is to give growers real-ti…
At its first Config conference in India, Figma announced 20 new model context protocol (MCP) partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode and Sarvam Agents. Co-founder Dylan Field said MCP is "not a perfect protocol" and favors frontier labs. He also criticized Anthropic, MCP's cr…
NIST, the NSA and CISA released a report, Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation, on handling AI agents that behave in unexpected or harmful ways. The report uses the term super intelligence (SI) instead of AI, in line with presidential executive order 14434. It sets out ten key pra…
TrustedSec (author Chris Camejo) explains that FCI and CUI safeguarding obligations do not exist during the pre-contract solicitation phase unless the contractor has agreed to a specific pre-contract agreement. Prime contractors, especially large DoD primes, are increasingly pushing CMMC, FAR 52.204-21 and DFARS 252.204-7012/7021 requirem…
Cloudflare and VoidZero, together with Max Schwenk of Owner.com, announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler incubated within the Oxc JavaScript toolchain and developed in collaboration with the TypeScript team. This is product and open source tooling news with no security incident, vulnerability or threat activit…
Inspired Capital, the New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2019 by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, closed its fourth fund with $450 million in commitments, bringing assets under management to nearly $1.4 billion. The article is business and funding news with no security incident, vulnerability, threat actor or malware co…
Oura announced two new workout-tracking features, Cardio Effort and VO₂ max, as competition in the smart ring market grows from rivals such as RingConn and Ultrahuman. Cardio Effort shows how much a workout taxes the cardiovascular system and aggregates it into a weekly total relative to each user's baseline. VO₂ max is estimated passivel…
Reliable Robotics, a Mountain View, California startup building autonomous flight systems for existing aircraft, raised $115 million as an extension of its Series D. The round comprises $90 million in equity led by Nimble Partners and $25 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. It brings the Series D to $275 million, lifts the valuation…
Eka Robotics, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, closed a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, led by a16z and F-Prime. The company has built a robotic manipulation system pairing a force-sensitive gripper with a vision-force-action model, trained throug…
The UK government has scrapped its national digital ID scheme, but officials told the Public Accounts Committee on 20 October 2026 that the underlying identity infrastructure remains in development. Work continues on GOV.UK One Login, the Gov Wallet and the digital identity trust framework, with more than 80 document types earmarked for t…
OpenAI announced an expanded ChatGPT integration for Google Chrome with two workflows. "Chat" reads content from open tabs to inform answers. "Work" controls tabs to send messages, fill out forms, download files, and organize or group tabs. The article presents this as a change that combines browser visibility with delegated actions, rais…