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Linx Security has raised $50 million in Series B funding from many of the same early investors who helped turn Wiz into one of the biggest cybersecurity successes of the past decade. Loading audio narration… The New York-based startup founded by Israel Duanis and Niv Goldenberg in 2023 counts Index Ventures, Cyberstarts, and Insight Partners among its backers, mirroring the core group that funded Wiz in its early days. Wiz’s founders are also angel investors.”My story with Wiz started 25 years ago when I slept in the same tent with Assaf Rappaport in the Army,” Israel Duanis, CEO and co-founder…

With now more than 100 million cameras in the field, Amazon-owned Ring is ready to take advantage of its sizable footprint with the launch of a new app store that will expand its cameras’ capabilities. Focused initially on areas like elder care, workforce analytics, rental management, and more, the store will allow developers of all sizes to tap into Ring’s ecosystem to reach customers. First announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the app store arrives alongside Ring’s expansion beyond smart doorbells and cameras for people’s homes to those aimed at businesses. But the new store is also enabled…

Oracle started laying off employees on Tuesday, according to two affected workers and several social media posts. Loading audio narration… The cuts appear to have affected employees globally, but the full extent of the layoffs could not be immediately learned. More than a dozen people posted on LinkedIn on Tuesday to announce they had been impacted by the layoffs.Affected roles appear to include staff in Oracle’s cloud computing business, per LinkedIn posts reviewed by Business Insider. Several of the employees who posted were software engineers.An Oracle spokesperson declined to comment.Oracle employed around 162,000 full-time employees as of May 2025, according…

Apple is celebrating 50 years since its founding this week, and it’s seen a number of innovators pump out iconic products over the decades.Its storied past is marked with major milestones that changed the landscape of the tech industry. Along the way, Apple has become known for its workplace culture of innovation and secrecy.Two former leaders at the heart of some of Apple’s most memorable projects looked back on their time at the tech giant.From working in the Steve Jobs era to maintaining a level of mystery around secret products, they spoke to Business Insider about their years of experience…

Messy breakup? Instagram might make it a lot harder to move on.Instagram is testing a new subscription that gives paying users access to several features, including the ability to view another user’s Story in stealth mode.Other perks include creating audience lists beyond “Close Friends” and extending a Story by an additional 24 hours. Instagram Stories are photos and videos that expire after 24 hours. Currently, the creator can see who views them.”Our hope from these tests is to understand what’s most valuable to people in a premium feature set,” an Instagram spokesperson said in a statement to Bloomberg. The company…

Editor’s note: This list was first published in August 2023 and has been updated to reflect recent developments.After years of losses, Allbirds has agreed to a sale.The company announced on Monday that it would be acquired by American Exchange Group, a New York-based fashion and consumer goods company, for $39 million.The announcement follows several years of plummeting sales for the shoemaker, once famous for its wool sneakers worn by tech bros and venture capitalists. At the height of its popularity, during its IPO trading debut in 2021, its stock soared about 116% and gave the company a $4 billion valuation.…

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line.Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or delete keys.The exercise started in spring 2023 as Phelps grew frustrated with the reality that students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write…

Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are saying yes. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday, 15% of Americans say they’d be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,397 adults in the United States and conducted the poll — which included questions about AI adoption, trust, and job fears — between March 19 and 23, 2026. Of course, the majority of respondents said they wouldn’t be willing to swap their human boss for an AI people manager.…

LiteLLM, makers of a popular AI gateway used by millions of developers, has publicly announced that it is ditching compliance startup Delve and will redo its security certifications with another company and auditor. The announcement comes after LiteLLM’s open source version fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week. Prior to the incident, LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications by hiring AI compliance startup Delve. Such certifications are intended to verify that a company has procedures in place to minimize potential incidents. Delve has been accused of misleading its customers about their true compliance by allegedly generating fake data and…

Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are saying yes. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday, 15% of Americans say they’d be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,397 adults in the United States and conducted the poll — which included questions about AI adoption, trust, and job fears — between March 19 and 23, 2026. Of course, the majority of respondents said they wouldn’t be willing to swap their human boss for an AI people manager.…