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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Palo Alto Networks reportedly explores $400M acquisition of Koi Security

Palo Alto Networks Inc. is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi Security Inc. for an estimated $400 million. According to Ctech by Calcalist today, Palo Alto Chief Executive Nikesh Arora visited Israel last month and evaluated local startups for potential deals. He reportedly emphasized that the rapid changes artificial intelligence is bringing ...

Google’s Gemini 3.0 Pro helps solve longstanding mystery in the Nuremberg Chronicle

Google LLC’s Gemini 3.0 Pro large language model has delivered a notable advance in multimodal reasoning by helping decode a long-unexplained handwritten annotation in a 500-year-old copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle. The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, is considered one of the most important illustrated books of the early modern period. A particular surviving leaf ...

Apple reportedly plans to push iPhone 18 debut to 2027

Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to delay the release of the iPhone 18 until 2027 as it deals with manufacturing complexity and longer production development cycles. According to MacRumors, the iPhone 18 is not expected to arrive until the spring of 2027, leaving the iPhone 17 lineup as the latest standard model for more than ...

China pushes robot access mainstream with Qingtianzhu’s 1 RMB ‘flash rental’ service

Though 2025 may be remembered for the artificial intelligence boom, not far behind has been the emergence of advanced humanoid robotics. And while the U.S. and the West more broadly have somewhat lagged in robotics, China enters the new year arguably well ahead in the robotics game. According to a report Tuesday from Chia-focused tech site Pandaily ...

European Space Agency investigates breach after hacker claims 200GB data theft

The European Space Agency has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen and then offered for sale a large volume of internal data claimed to be from the ESA. In a statement on X Inc., the ESA said the incident involved a “very small number” of external ...

New Shai Hulud 3.0 malware variant raises fresh supply chain security concerns

A newly discovered third variant of the Shai Hulud malware is raising fresh concerns about the security of the open-source software supply chain, as researchers warn that the latest version shows more sophistication and improved stealth than earlier campaigns. Shai Hulud is a malware campaign first observed in September targeting the JavaScript ecosystem. It focuses ...

Former US cybersecurity professionals plead guilty to BlackCat/ALPHV attacks

Two former American cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty in federal court for their roles in carrying out ransomware attacks using the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat malware, the very type of threat they were employed to defend against. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs, Ryan Clifford Goldberg of Georgia and Kevin Tyler Martin ...

Millions of Wired user records leaked in claimed Condé Nast breach

A hacker claims to have leaked a database containing millions of user records tied to Condé Nast Inc.’s Wired magazine, as the data appeared on the Breach Stars cybercrime forum and quickly spread across other underground marketplaces. The dataset, which first surfaced late last week, is being advertised as containing more than 23 million records ...

US and Australian agencies warn MongoBleed vulnerability in MongoDB is under active exploitation

Cybersecurity authorities in the U.S. and Australia are warning that a critical vulnerability in MongoDB and MongoDB Server is being actively exploited in the wild and represents a threat for organizations that run exposed database infrastructure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 and dubbed “MongoBleed,” is described by the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency as an ...

OpenAI hiring senior preparedness lead as AI safety scrutiny grows

OpenAI Group PBC is looking to hire a head of preparedness, a senior safety role tasked with anticipating potential harms from the company’s artificial intelligence models and guiding how those risks are mitigated as capabilities advance. According to a job listing published on OpenAI’s careers site, the role will lead the technical strategy and execution ...