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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Microsoft turns to Nebius in nearly $20B AI infrastructure deal

Microsoft Corp. has signed a deal with artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nebius Group N.V. worth up to nearly $20 billion to provide dedicated GPU infrastructure capacity from its new data center in Vineland, New Jersey, starting later this year. The deal is worth $17.4 billion over five years, with a pre-purchased option clause extending the ...

Massive npm hack poisons 18 packages with billions of downloads

Aikido Security Ltd. today disclosed what is being described as the largest npm supply chain compromise to date, after attackers injected malware into 18 popular packages that together account for more than 2.6 billion weekly downloads. Npm packages are reusable blocks of JavaScript code published to the Node Package Manager registry that developers can install ...

RavenDB launches database-native ‘AI Agent Creator’ for faster enterprise adoption

High-performance NoSQL database provider RavenDB Ltd. today announced the launch of AI Agent Creator, a feature fully integrated into the database that it claims reduces the time required to build AI agents from weeks, months or even years to just days. The new offering helps overcome the issues of artificial intelligence adoption, where embedding agents ...

Microsoft warns of latency as Red Sea cable cuts disrupt internet across Middle East and South Asia

Microsoft Corp. is warning that Azure customers in the Middle East may face latency issues following undersea cables being cut in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia. The cable cuts started to affect traffic in the region from 5:45 a.m. UTC (1:45 a.m. EDT) on Saturday, Sept. 6. Azure network traffic was not interrupted as ...

Augment raises $85M to expand AI ‘teammate’ for logistics

Artificial intelligence productivity platform startup Augment Technologies Inc. announced today that it has raised $85 million in early-stage funding to accelerate the development of Augie, Augment’s flagship AI teammate for logistics. It also aims to apply the Series A round to expand Augie to more end-to-end logistics workflows for shippers, brokers, carriers and distributors. Founded in ...

Docusign tops Wall Street expectations with strong earnings results

Shares of Docusign Inc. rose more than 7% in late trading today after the company impressed investors with revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter. For the quarter that ended on July 31, the electronic-signature company reported adjusted earnings per share of 92 cents, down from 97 cents per share in the ...

Samsara stock jumps after strong earnings and revenue beat

Shares in Samsara Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the internet of things cloud platform provider impressed investors with revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter. For the quarter that ended on Aug. 2, Samsara reported adjusted earnings per share of 12 cents, up from five cents per ...

Apiiro report finds AI code assistants increase developer speed but heighten security risk

A new report out today from application security posture management company Apiiro Ltd. looks at the impact of artificial intelligence code assistants in a Fortune 20 enterprise and highlights a widening gap between development velocity and security risk. The study tracked more than 7,000 developers across 62,000 repositories, where GitHub Copilot adoption has significantly changed coding patterns. ...

EC-Council invests $20M+ in FireCompass to expand AI offensive security

Cybersecurity certification, education, training and services company EC-Council announced today that it has invested more than $20 million into FireCompass Pvt. Ltd., an artificial intelligence-powered offensive security platform provider, as part of its $100 million Cybersecurity Innovation Commitment. Founded in 2019, FireCompass offers an AI-powered offensive security platform that unifies multiple security testing capabilities into ...

Vidar infostealer gains traction among cybercriminals as ease of use drives adoption

A new report released today by secure access service edge provider Aryaka Networks Inc. is warning of the growing threat from Vidar, a malware-as-a-service infostealer that has surged in prominence since first appearing in 2018. Vidar entered the malware scene as a spinoff from the Arkei family of malware, before evolving today into a more powerful, standalone ...