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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Trust Center Platform startup SafeBase raises $33M for platform development

Trust Center Platform startup SafeBase Inc. today announced that it has raised $33 million in new funding to enhance its platform and artificial intelligence-powered technology that streamlines security reviews and third-party risk assessments. Founded in 2022, SafeBase pitches itself as offering the leading Trust Center Platform designed for friction-free security reviews. Through its Trust Center, ...

Synopsys enhances its Polaris Platform with new AI security assistant

Electronic design automation company Synopsys Inc. today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence-powered application security assistant that provides AI-augmented vulnerability summaries and code fixes. Called Polaris Assist and offered as part of the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform, the new AI assistant combines large language model technology with Synopsys’ application security knowledge and intelligence. It ...

Akamai launches Guardicore Platform to enhance zero-trust security for hybrid environments

Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced the Akamai Guardicore Platform, a new platform designed to assist businesses in meeting their zero-trust goals. Claimed to be the first security platform that combines zero-trust network access and microsegregation, the Guardicore Platform helps security teams stop ransomware, meet compliance mandates and secure their hybrid ...

New ML-powered service from Semperis aims to streamline identity threat detection

Enterprise identity protection and cyber resilience startup Semperis Ltd. today announced the release of Lightning Identity Runtime Protection, a new machine learning-powered identity threat detection and response service. Lightning Identity Runtime Protection uses machine learning models developed by security experts to detect widespread and successful attack patterns, such as password spray, credential stuffing, other brute force attacks ...

F5 shares fall over 9% on disappointing earnings outlook

Shares in F5 Inc. fell over 9% in late trading today after the application security firm reported mixed results in its fiscal second quarter and fell short of expectations with its third-quarter outlook. For the quarter ended March 31, F5 reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.91, up from $2.53 per share in the same quarter of the ...

Cloudflare reports submarine and terrestrial cable damages lead recent internet disruptions

A new report on internet disruptions from content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc., released today, finds that the main cause of disruptions in the first quarter was damage to terrestrial and submarine cables, followed by government-direct internet shutdowns, cyberattacks, technical issues and power outages. That damage to submarine cables led the pack for internet disruptions in the ...

Check Point delivers strong quarterly revenue growth but stock drops

Shares in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. closed down 5% in regular trading today despite the cybersecurity company beating expectations in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its first quarter ended March 31, Check Point reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.04, up 13% year-over-year, on revenue of $599 million, up 6% year-over-year. Both were beats, as ...

Snap’s revenue and earnings beat forecasts, shares surge over 20%

Shares in Snap Inc. soared by more than 20% in late trading today after the company reported revenue and earnings beats in its first quarter and projected a higher-than-expected outlook for its second quarter. For its first quarter ended March 31, Snap reported adjusted earnings per share of three cents, up from one cent in ...

JFrog unveils MLflow integration to enhance machine learning model management

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a new machine learning lifecycle integration between JFrog Artifactory and MLflow, an open-source software platform originally developed by Databricks Inc. The new integration is designed to give JFrog users a way to build, manage and deliver machine learning models and generative artificial intelligence-powered apps along with other software development ...

Swave Photonics debuts Holographic eXtended Reality display with tiny-pixel technology

Holographic display startup Swave Photonics today announced the development of what is claimed to be the world’s first 3D holographic display technology for compact extended reality form factors such as smart glasses. Swave’s new Holographic eXtended Reality is a new type of advanced display technology that produces a pixel pitch of less than 300 nanometers ...