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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BlackBerry beats earnings expectations as shares swing after-hours

Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. were volatile in after-hours trading today after the company reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 third quarter. For the quarter that ended on Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported adjusted earnings per share of five cents, up from breakeven in the same quarter of the previous fiscal year, on revenue ...

Fastly report finds bot traffic now makes up nearly a third of all web requests

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly sophisticated headless bots drive both operational strain and new business decisions across industries. The findings, detailed in Fastly’s Q3 Threat Insights Report, found that while humans still ...

Ankar raises $20M to expand AI-powered patent operating system

Artificial intelligence operating system for patents startup Ankar.ai Ltd. today revealed that it has raised $20 million in new funding to grow its team and expand further into the U.S. Founded in 2023 in the U.K., Ankar has built an AI-powered operating system for innovation that transforms how companies and law firms generate and protect ...

NIST releases draft AI cybersecurity framework profile to guide secure AI adoption

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a preliminary draft of its Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence which provides guidance for the secure adoption of AI. The draft takes the existing NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 structure that helps organizations manage and communicate cybersecurity risk and adapts it to AI use. CSF ...

ShinyHunters claims theft of Pornhub Premium user data in extortion attempt

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the theft of a large dataset tied to Pornhub Premium users, threatening to leak or sell the information unless the company pays a ransom. The hack of PornHub was first revealed by the adult video website on Dec. 12. It was described as a cybersecurity incident involving ...

NCC Group report finds ransomware activity plateaued in November as tactics evolve

A new report out today from information assurance firm NCC Group PLC finds that global ransomware activity plateaued in November even as attackers continued to refine their tactics and collaboration models. The findings come from the NCC Group November 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Report. It found that ransomware incidents dipped slightly month-over-month but remained elevated, ...

Cyderes acquires Lucidum to strengthen identity-aware security data foundation

Managed cybersecurity services company Cyderes LLC today announced that it has acquired security data fabric and entity intelligence firm Lucidum Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Lucidum offers a security data fabric platform that is designed to give organizations a comprehensive, real-time view of their digital environment. The company has an aim to ...

Google tests CC AI agent to summarize email, calendars and documents

Google LLC, through its Google Labs division, today rolled out a new artificial intelligence agent that is designed to help users manage daily tasks by summarizing information across email, calendars, documents and the web. Called CC, the new tool, is built on Google’s Gemini AI models. Google calls it an early look at how agent-based ...

Adaptive Security raises $81M to expand AI-driven social engineering defense platform

Social engineering defense startup Adaptive Security Inc. today revealed that it has raised $81 million in new funding to expand its platform and accelerate product development. Founded in 2024, Adaptive is taking on the threat of artificial intelligence-powered social engineering with a mission to protect organizations from next-generation threats that exploit human trust rather than ...

Sonar adds architecture controls to keep fast-growing codebases structurally sound

Code quality testing startup SonarSource Sàrl today introduced a major expansion of SonarQube that brings full software architecture management into its code quality and security platform for the first time. The new capability helps development teams keep their code clean and prevents structural erosion that often occurs as systems evolve. The issue the expansion is seeking to ...