Identity and Access Management

Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents

Snowflake is acquiring Natoma, a startup that provides a gateway for managing AI agent permissions across enterprise applications. This acquisition is part of Snowflake's strategy to establish an "agentic control plane," ensuring that AI agents can interact with business systems while adhering to strict security and governance policies. Natoma's technology enforces identity verification and access controls at the level of individual tool calls, allowing for secure and controlled AI actions.

Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers

Overlaying Governance: A Compositional Authorization Framework for Delegation and Scope in Agentic AI

Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems evolve from passive models into autonomous active agents capable of initiating actions, collaborating, and delegating tasks, the traditional boundaries of software systems blur. Traditional authorization and delegation frameworks, built around fixed principals, explicit requests, and static scopes, are insufficient to govern agentic systems. Agentic AI demands richer authorization semantics: agents must inherit and delegate permissions, act under...

Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition

"The no-kill-switch kind of thing? It's increasingly becoming a requirement," says Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem. This is one of the reasons behind the company's decision to buy GraphAware, an intelligence analysis software platform built on the graph database, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Palantir, the controversial US spy-tech biz.

Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents

Rogue agents are dangerous, but eliminating them is never easy. Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, and James Bond have each run afoul of their governance at various junctures, yet stopping them takes sequel after sequel until all the loose ends are tied up and they eventually die or retire, only to get rebooted. It’s not so different in the world of AI agents.

Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15 countries

Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its joint industry initiative to find and fix critical software vulnerabilities using AI, to about 150 new organizations across more than 15 countries, the company said Tuesday. The news comes a day after Anthropic said it had filed confidentially for an initial public offering, following a $65 billion funding round at a nearly $1 trillion valuation. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos is at the heart of Project Glasswing.

Charter breach warning: What customers should know

A phone call may have opened the door to a major telecom security scare involving Charter Communications, the company behind Spectrum. Charter is one of the largest broadband and cable providers in the United States, serving more than 32 million customers across more than 40 states with internet, cable TV, mobile and phone service. The company has confirmed a cybersecurity incident after the ransomware group ShinyHunters listed it on a leak site.

Charter breach warning: What customers should know

A phone call may have opened the door to a major telecom security scare involving Charter Communications, the company behind Spectrum. Charter is one of the largest broadband and cable providers in the United States, serving more than 32 million customers across more than 40 states with internet, cable TV, mobile and phone service. The company has confirmed a cybersecurity incident after the ransomware group ShinyHunters listed it on a leak site.

1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in June 2026

1Password has long been one of our favorite password managers. It's our upgrade pick for all the extra features it offers compared to other password managers. 1Password has apps that work just about everywhere, including on macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS.

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

Now, that's a lot of word processing. But under the hood it's still at least PDP-8 adjacent, even considering its oddities and incompatibilities, and you can make it do many of the things a full-size Eight can. We'll take this basic unit, convert the floppy drives to solid state, tap the video output, and put it through its paces.