Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Vibe coding startup Lovable doubles valuation to $13.3B with $400M raise

By Duncan Riley Aug 12, 2026

Lovable Labs Inc. said today it has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The Swedish artificial intelligence coding startup was worth $6.6 billion in December. The company sells…

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Ahrefs launches AI agent workspace Letaido for marketers and agencies

By Duncan Riley Aug 12, 2026

Marketing intelligence company Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. today launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace built to take over the recurring research, reporting and monitoring work that fills up a marketing team’s week. In most marketing…

NEWS

First Akira Safe Mode attack disables endpoint detection and response but fails to encrypt, Huntress says

By Duncan Riley Aug 12, 2026

Huntress Labs Inc. said today that an Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s Windows server into Safe Mode to knock its endpoint security offline — and it worked. The same reboot also broke the…

AI

Apexon targets stalled AI pilots with three AgentRise additions

By Duncan Riley Aug 12, 2026

Santa Clara-based technology services firm Apexon Inc. today expanded AgentRise, its agentic artificial intelligence platform, with three new components. The additions are named AgentRise Polaris, AgentRise Lodestone and AgentRise Harness. Each maps to one…

AI

Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users

By Duncan Riley Aug 11, 2026

Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. The company announced the milestone today in a…

AI

FriskAI launches with $3.6M to show enterprises what their AI agents are doing

By Duncan Riley Aug 11, 2026

Runtime intelligence startup FriskAI Inc. launched today with $3.6 million in pre-seed funding to give enterprises a record of what their artificial intelligence agents actually do once they go into production. FriskAI is aiming…

NEWS

Cloudflare says 1 Tbps DDoS attacks grew sixfold in the second quarter

By Duncan Riley Aug 11, 2026

Cloudflare Inc. reported today that distributed denial-of-service attacks above 1 terabit per second grew sixfold between the first and second quarters of 2026, to 805 from 130. That took the half-year total to 935…

NEWS

Blumira launches Hearth, an AI command center that spans rival security tools

By Duncan Riley Aug 11, 2026

Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched Hearth, a vendor-agnostic artificial intelligence command center that lets security teams investigate and act across their existing tools from a single interface. The product is available…

NEWS

DEF CON hackers launch Water Watch Center to defend small water utilities

By Duncan Riley Aug 10, 2026

DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association have launched the Water Watch Center, a program that delivers managed cybersecurity services to small water utilities that have no security staff of their own.…

NEWS

Corma launches with $60M in funding for defensive cybersecurity AI

By Duncan Riley Aug 10, 2026

Defensive cybersecurity startup Corma Labs Ltd. today announced it has raised $60 million in seed funding to build a foundation model purpose-built for security defense. Founded in 2025, Corma runs offices in Tel Aviv…

Duncan Riley

Vibe coding startup Lovable doubles valuation to $13.3B with $400M raise

Ahrefs launches AI agent workspace Letaido for marketers and agencies

First Akira Safe Mode attack disables endpoint detection and response but fails to encrypt, Huntress says

Apexon targets stalled AI pilots with three AgentRise additions

Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users

FriskAI launches with $3.6M to show enterprises what their AI agents are doing

Cloudflare says 1 Tbps DDoS attacks grew sixfold in the second quarter

Blumira launches Hearth, an AI command center that spans rival security tools

DEF CON hackers launch Water Watch Center to defend small water utilities

Corma launches with $60M in funding for defensive cybersecurity AI

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