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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Kim Kardashian pays $1.26M fine for promoting dubious digital token

Celebrity Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay a $1.26 million fine for promoting a dubious digital token without disclosing the amount she was paid to promote it. Kardashian, who became famous thanks to her role in the series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” promoted EtherumMax, a crypto token built on top of the Ethereum network ...

New LogRhythm Axon offers cloud-native SecOps built from the ground up

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced the launch of LogRhythm Axon, a new cloud-native security operations platform built from the ground up. Axon is pitched as a force multiplier for overwhelmed security teams. The company says it provides an intuitive way for security teams to achieve visibility across cloud and on-premises log sources, establishing a foundation for their ...

Intel-owned Mobileye files to go public at $30B valuation

Intel Corp.-owned self-driving vehicle technology company Mobileye Global Inc. is one step closer to going public, filing the paperwork for a listing on the Nasdaq with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday and announcing it Oct. 3. Intel announced in December that it planned to float Mobileye with a reported valuation north of $50 billion. ...

Planning startup Pigment raises $65M for product development and expansion

Business planning platform startup Pigment SAS said today it has raised $65 million in new funding for product and customer development and expansion in the U.S. IVP and Meritech Capital led the Series B+ round. Including the new funding, Pigment has raised $163.9 million to date, according to Crunchbase. Previous investors include FirstMark Capital, Blossom Capital and Greenoaks Capital. Founded in ...

New cross-platform Chaos malware targets servers, routers and FreeBSD boxes

A newly discovered form of cross-platform malware has been found in the wild infecting Linux and Windows devices, including servers, routers and FreeBSD boxes. Detailed Wednesday by researchers at Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies Inc., the new “Chaos” malware is written in the Go programming language. The name comes from the ...

Former eBay execs sentenced to prison for bizarre cyberstalking campaign

Two former eBay Inc. executives were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a bizarre cyberstalking campaign against a couple who had been critical of the company. Six now-former eBay employees were arrested in June 2020 for cyberstalking David and Ina Steiner. The couple from Natick, Massachusetts, publish an online newsletter covering e-commerce businesses and ...

Zuckerberg announces Meta hiring freeze, expects headcount to be lower in 2023

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has become the latest tech company to announce a hiring freeze, with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg telling staff that he expects the company to be smaller in 2023. Zuckerberg announced the hiring freeze during a weekly Q&A session, according to a person in attendance, Bloomberg reported today. ...

Arctic Wolf: One third of all cyberattacks now involve business email compromise

A new report from security operations startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. finds a significant uptick in business email compromise attacks for the first half of this year. Based on data analysis and insights from Arctic Wolf’s incident response unit Tetra Defense, BEC now accounts for over a third of all total cases responded to and the number ...

General Inception offers ‘igniter’ service to invest in new companies

General Inception, a micro venture capital fund that describes itself as the first-ever “igniter” investment company, launched today with an aim to build companies from inception through scale-up and growth. As an igniter, General Inception says that it is not an accelerator or traditional venture capital fund, though it still invests in companies. Where General Inception ...

Acceldata teams with Snowflake for improved visibility in modern data environments

Data observability startup Acceldata Inc. today announced that Snowflake Inc. now powers its Data Observability Cloud to provide joint customers with improved visibility and reliability in monitoring and analyzing the performance and configuration of modern data environments. With the new Snowflake integration, joint customers can now ensure resources are used efficiently. Acceldata’s Data Observability Cloud provides data teams ...