Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Meta reports rapid growth in popularity for its Llama AI models, with nearly 350M downloads

Meta Platforms Inc. today revealed that its Llama generative artificial models are rapidly growing in popularity, with downloads of the models increasing by 10 times from the same time last year and are quickly approaching 350 million downloads. The figures were revealed in an upbeat midyear update from the company behind services such as Facebook, Instagram and ...

Autodesk outperforms projections with strong earnings and revenue growth

Shares in Autodesk Inc. were up over 4% in late trading today after the computer-aided software design company reported earnings and revenue beats. For its fiscal second quarter ended July 31, Autodesk reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.15, up from $1.91 in the same quarter of the previous year, on revenue of $1.51 billion, ...

Elastic shares plunge 25% on lower revenue projections amid slower customer commitments

Shares in Elastic N.V. plunged nearly 25% in late trading today after the enterprise search software company warned of slower growth and fell short on outlook alongside an otherwise solid quarterly earnings report. For its 2025 fiscal first quarter that ended on July 31, Elastic reported adjusted earnings per share of 35 cents, up from 25 ...

Google reports watering-hole attacks on Mongolian sites leveraged iOS and Android exploits

Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group today shared details on multiple observed in-the-wild exploit campaigns that used watering-hole attacks on Mongolian government websites between November 2023 and July this year. A watering-hole attack is a strategy that involves attackers compromising legitimate websites that their target or targets frequently visit by embedding malicious code to exploit vulnerabilities ...

Accenture and Google Cloud strengthen alliance to boost AI adoption and cybersecurity

Accenture plc and Google Cloud today announced new advancements in their strategic alliance that advance artificial intelligence adoption and cybersecurity for Fortune 500 companies. The two companies are increasing their investments in services that support businesses through every stage of their generative AI projects, including additional expertise to determine optimal use cases, pilot projects for ...

AI image generator Midjourney is venturing into hardware development

Artificial intelligence image generation company Midjourney Inc. announced today on X Inc. that it’s getting into hardware and is looking to add new members to its team to assist in the endeavor. Exactly what hardware Midjourney is planning on building is not clear. AI image generation companies aren’t normally prone to venture into hardware construction. ...

Cybersecurity firms CrowdStrike and Okta beat earnings forecasts but face challenges

Shares in both CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Okta Inc. fell in late trading today despite the cybersecurity companies reporting solid quarterly figures. CrowdStrike revised its outlook downward following a quarter that saw the company shrouded in controversy following an update to its Falcon cybersecurity product that brought down systems across much of the world. For its ...

Rezonate launches midmarket identity security solution to address cloud visibility gaps

Cloud identity and access company Rezonate Inc. today announced the launch of a new identity security solution for midmarket companies that eliminates blind spots and reduces the cloud identity attack surface. The company says the new all-in-one identity security platform offers unified discovery, visibility and monitoring of identities, along with access pathway privileges, entitlements and security configurations ...

Secureworks launches Taegis IDR to tackle identity-based threats in 90 seconds

Cybersecurity company Secureworks Inc. today announced the launch of Taegis IDR, a new identity threat detection and response solution that it says takes 90 seconds to discover identity-related risks and configurations. Secureworks Taegis IDR has been designed from the get-go to close security gaps proactively by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect, prioritize and respond ...

Nozomi Networks enhances threat response with new Mandiant-powered TI Expansion Pack

Industrial cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks Inc. today announced the general availability of the Nozomi TI Expansion Pack, a new federated solution powered by Mandiant Threat Intelligence that helps strengthen the way industrial and enterprise security teams anticipate, diagnose and respond to cyber threats. The new expansion pack, created as part of Nozomi’s expanded partnership with Google LLC’s ...