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Phosphorus Cybersecurity, a US-based leader in security and device management for the extended Internet of Things (xIoT), has received an investment from Neva Sgr, the venture capital arm of Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo Group.The funding was made through Neva Sgr’s Neva II Fund, although the value of the deal was not disclosed.Phosphorus Cybersecurity helps organisations manage millions of connected devices, automating tasks such as password updates, configuration fixes, and firmware patches to reduce the risk of cyberattacks. The company is building towards a future where xIoT devices are managed autonomously without human intervention.The new investment will accelerate Phosphorus’s intelligent automation capabilities…

Cybersecurity company SixMap, based in Berkeley, California, has raised $7m in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners.TRE Advisors joined the round, along with existing investors DataTribe and the California Innovation Fund. This brings the company’s total funding to $22.05m.Founded in 2020, SixMap offers a platform that helps organisations monitor their full digital attack surface, going beyond standard tools to scan more than 60,000 ports using computational mapping.The new funds will support SixMap’s go-to-market expansion, product development, and hiring. The company is responding to growing demand from CISOs who require complete visibility over their networks.SixMap’s platform is already in…

The White House calls the decision ‘hostile’ as the e-commerce company denies any proposal is under consideration.Amazon may soon show how much tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump will cost consumers who shop on the company’s platform, according to new reporting from the outlet Punchbowl News, citing a person familiar with the plan. In response to the report on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she had discussed the Amazon plan with the president, and his message about it was: “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.” The White House also attempted to deflect the…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The state of New Mexico must create a remedial plan to improve K-12 education after falling short of providing an adequate public school education to Native American students and others from low-income households, a judge ruled Tuesday.The order from state district court Judge Matthew Wilson builds on a landmark 2018 ruling that spurred a multibillion-dollar spending spree on public schools in New Mexico — without yet resolving underlying failures to meet state constitutional obligations to educate an array of at-risk students, including those studying English as a second language and students with disabilities.“The defendants are…

About two dozen states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the dismantling of AmeriCorps, the 30-year-old federal agency for volunteer service, and over the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for state and community projects across the U.S.The federal lawsuit was filed against the agency and its interim head by Democratic state officials. It alleges that President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency illegally gutted the agency created by Congress and reneged on grants funded through the AmeriCorps State and National program, which was budgeted $557 million in congressionally approved funding this…

As cyber threats continue to evolve, more organizations are turning to Red Teaming to pressure-test their defenses in realistic, adversary-simulated scenarios.  But red teaming is not for everyone or for every organization. Before engaging in a full-scope exercise, it’s important to assess whether your program, people and processes are truly ready. In a previous column, we outlined the process and path an organization should take to build and advance a mature offensive security program.  That column looked at internal organizational dynamics, processes and established activities, and the indicators that would demonstrate readiness to evaluate a move to the next program level.  The…

Since taking office in January, United States President Donald Trump has been hyping about the performance of the US economy. “In the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country,” Trump (falsely) said on April 17 while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. “I think we’re going to do even better this time,” he added, referring to his first term between 2016 and 2020. At a March 24 Cabinet meeting, he said, “We have numbers, and we have job generation, that I don’t think we’ve ever seen before. See how it works out, but…

Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to generate a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on documents they have shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs. The idea behind the feature is to give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded to the app. With this expansion, more people can use Audio Overviews in their preferred language. Google notes that up until…

Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way. While the experiments are still in the early stages, it’s possible that the company is looking to take on Duolingo with the help of Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model. The first experiment helps you quickly learn specific phrases you need in the moment, while the second experiment helps you sound less formal and more like a local. The third experiment allows you to use your camera to learn new words based on your surroundings. Image…

SentinelOne this week unveiled Purple AI Athena at the RSAC Conference in San Francisco. This latest evolution advances Purple AI from its origin primarily as an advanced LLM-based chatbot assisting SOC analysts in finding and understanding threats, into a full agentic AI solution. Very loosely, agentic AI autonomously responds to situations rather than to human natural language queries about situations, often through orchestration with multiple separate but related solutions. It consequently has the potential to dramatically reduce the time from situation occurrence to situation remediation.  However, it is worth noting that Athena isn’t a simple jump from chatbot to full…