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Reality Defender expands access to deepfake detection with new API, SDK

Deepfake detection platform Reality Defender has officially launched a public developer API and SDK and is offering a limited free…

 

EU-LISA takes on maintenance responsibilities for OFIQ

EU-LISA, the agency in charge of managing Europe’s border control IT systems, is taking on maintenance responsibilities for the Open-Source…

 

Remote Identity Validation Rally enters biometric PAD phase

The year-long Remote Identity Validation Rally (RIVR) challenge series hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and…

 

Biometric payment card enrollment interoperability spec developed by SPA

Initial interoperability specifications for biometric card enrollment have been formulated by the Smart Payment Association, and refined with industry feedback….

 

NIST fingerprint biometrics test sees Neurotechnology return to top, Imagid debut

Three new biometric algorithms have been evaluated by NIST for its Proprietary Fingerprint Template initiative, PFT III, in July. One…

 

Startup Cyata nets $8.5M in funding to fight growing threat of AI agents gone bad

Robot agents gone rogue sounds like the premise of a spy film, but it has become a legitimate security problem,…

 

US govt, Big Tech unite to build one stop national health data platform

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in coordination with the White House and more than 60 leading…

 

Thales identity and biometrics sales finally return to post-pandemic normal

The market ripples from the COVID-19 pandemic dragged down Thales’ revenues from identity and biometrics in the first half of…

 

Aware reports progress on strategic transformation

Net loss for Aware widened in the second quarter of 2025, compared to a year earlier, from $1.1 million to…

 

Mantra Softech dual iris biometrics pass iBeta PAD test

The dual iris capture software and iris scanner device created by one of India’s largest technology firms, Mantra Softech, have…

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