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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Fortinet brings FortiGate-VM security to Nvidia BlueField-3 for AI factories

Cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc. today announced an integrated solution featuring FortiGate-VM, its virtual cloud firewall, running directly on the Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing unit. The integration embeds networking and brings isolated infrastructure acceleration into the AI factory, allowing core security functions to run on BlueField instead of the host. An AI factory is a data center environment purpose-built to develop, ...

Vectra AI targets hybrid attack gaps with unified control framework

Threat detection and response firm Vectra AI Inc. today outlined a new platform-wide approach to hybrid security that unifies prevention, detection, response and resilience reporting across the full attack lifecycle. The updates to the Vectra AI Platform introduce a lifecycle-wide control model designed to give security teams consistent, measurable control before, during and after cyberattacks. Vectra AI ...

Human Security brings cryptographic verification to Amazon Bedrock agents

Cybersecurity company Human Security Inc. today announced support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore browser in its AgenticTrust service to ensure that artificial intelligence-powered agents built on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure are cryptographically signed and secure. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform for building and deploying agents securely at scale. The AgentCore browser tool allows agents to interact ...

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. ...