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 warns that AI is driving a surge in cloud security risks

Artificial intelligence dominated tech news through 2025 and not surprisingly, it also became extremely prominent when it comes to increasing security risks, according to a new report out today from Palo Alto Networks Inc. The Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud Security Report 2025 draws on survey data from more than 2,800 security and technology ...

Dux launches with $9M seed round to tackle AI-driven cyber exposure

Agentic exposure management startup Dux Technologies Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $9 million in funding to grow its U.S. go-to-market organization and accelerate development of its platform’s agentic capabilities across exploitability analysis, lightweight mitigation and continuous exposure management. Dux was founded by Or Latovitz, Amit Nir and Nadav Geva (pictured), ...

Lidar maker Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and lines up $110M asset sale

Lidar maker Luminar Technologies Inc. today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid mounting debt pressures and slower-than-expected adoption of its autonomous vehicle technologies. The company cited legacy debt obligations and challenging market conditions as key factors behind the filing, emphasizing that the process is designed to maximize value rather than liquidate the business. According ...

Falcon AI Detection and Response expands CrowdStrike platform to protect AI interactions

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced the general availability of Falcon AI Detection and Response, a service that extends the company’s Falcon platform to secure the artificial intelligence prompt and agent interaction layer. CrowdStrike says AIDR is the industry’s first unified platform that secures every layer of enterprise AI, including data, models, agents, identities, infrastructure and interactions, from ...

Cloudflare on the top internet trends: AI bots, post-quantum adoption and DDoS campaigns

With 2025 winding down, cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today released its annual year in review, detailing a colorful 12 months of surging artificial intelligence-driven traffic, rapid adoption of post-quantum cryptography and some of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded. The company’s sixth annual Cloudflare Radar Year in Review analyzes internet trends across traffic, security, outages, ...

DuploCloud launches AI DevOps Engineers that execute real infrastructure work

Artificial intelligence-powered DevOps automation company DuploCloud Inc. today announced the launch of AI DevOps Engineers, a new service that allows companies to leverage agentic workflows to provision, troubleshoot and optimize infrastructure. AI DevOps Engineers are designed to assist with the issue where, as AI reshapes software operations, DevOps teams are still stretched thin among tasks ...

ServiceNow reportedly in advanced talks to buy Armis for up to $7 billion

Cloud workflow management software provider ServiceNow Inc. is reportedly in advanced talks to buy cyber exposure management and security company Armis Inc. in a deal that may be announced in the coming days. Bloomberg reported Saturday that the deal could be valued at as much as $7 billion and would represent the biggest acquisition ServiceNow has made to date. ...

Microsoft broadens bug bounty scope to include any vulnerability affecting its services

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it is expanding its bug bounty program with a new policy that brings all of its online services, including those supported by third-party and open-source components, into its scope by default. The update, introduced through a new “In Scope By Default” model, marks a significant change to Microsoft’s coordinated vulnerability ...

Commvault and Delinea partner to boost protection against credential-based attacks

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced a new partnership and technology integration with privileged access management firm Delinea Inc. that connects the Commvault Cloud platform with Delinea’s Secret Server to help joint customers strengthen credential security, support compliance initiatives and streamline data recovery. The new partnership seeks to help with the issue whereby securing user credentials is ...

Model Context Protocol security risks grow as unsecured servers appear across the internet

A new research report out today from cyber risk management company Bitsight Technologies Inc. warns about the security posture of the rapidly growing Model Context Protocol ecosystem by revealing that roughly 1,000 MCP servers are currently exposed on the public internet with no authorization controls in place. MCP is an open-source standard designed to let large language ...