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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Data management startup Alcion launches with $8M in funding

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Data management startup Alcion Inc. today launched as it announced that it has raised $8 million in funding for its AI-driven backup-as-a-service platform. Founded by Niraj Tolia (pictured) and Vaibhav Kamra, the pair behind Kasten, a Kubernetes backup company acquired by Veeam Software …

New Rezilion Smart Fix offers guidance to patching vulnerable components

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

DevSecOps automation tools startup Rezilion Inc. today announced a new feature called Smart Fix that offers critical guidance for users to understand the most strategic upgrade to fix vulnerable components. The feature seeks to address the issue wherein patching is a complicated and noisy …

9M dental patient records published following LockBit ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

The records of nearly 9 million people have been published online following a LockBit ransomware attack on Managed Care of North America Inc. The company, also known as MCNA Dental, is a leading provider of dental plans in the U.S., serving private …

Spyware discovered in 101 Android apps downloaded 421M times

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

A previously unknown form of Android spyware has been discovered in a marketing software development kit used in 101 applications that have been downloaded an estimated 421 million times. Detailed today by researchers at Doctor Web Ltd., the spyware module called “SpinOk” attracts …

Raidforums member data leaked on new ‘Exposed’ hacking forum

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

A recently launched hacking site has published the member database of RaidForums, a notorious hacking forum taken offline in 2022. Founded in 2015, RaidForums operated on the regular internet and was a popular hacking and data leak forum. Although it offered various illegal …

Nvidia and MediaTek partner to advance in-car technology

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Nvidia Corp. and Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek Inc. today signed a new partnership to “bring drivers and passengers new experiences inside the car.” Announced at the COMPUTEX 2023 Expo in Taipei, the deal sees the two companies working together to bring advanced …

Facebook users lose access after violations of linked spam Instagram accounts they don’t own

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

A growing number of Facebook users are reporting an issue in which their Facebook accounts are being disabled because of violations attributed to linked Instagram accounts that the Facebook users themselves do not own. The issue, which was first reported weeks ago on …

Lawyer’s reliance on ChatGPT leads to false case citations in airline lawsuit

AI By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

A New York lawyer has found himself in trouble in a lawsuit between a man and the airline Avianca Holding S.A. after presenting nonexistent citations in the case generated by ChatGPT. The case involved a man named Roberto Mata suing Avianca, claiming …

Applied Intuition to acquire self-driving truck software company Embark for $71M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Autonomous vehicle software development company Applied Intuition Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire self-driving truck software company Embark Technology Inc. in an all-cash transaction for $71 million. Founded in 2016, Embark designs automotive-grade self-driving software that uses machine learning for perception while …

OpenAI offers grants for democratic experiments in AI system rules

AI By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

OpenAI Inc., the nonprofit arm of artificial intelligence company OpenAI LP, today launched a new program that will award grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process to devise what rules AI systems should follow. The “Democratic Inputs to AI” …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Data management startup Alcion launches with $8M in funding

New Rezilion Smart Fix offers guidance to patching vulnerable components

9M dental patient records published following LockBit ransomware attack

Spyware discovered in 101 Android apps downloaded 421M times

Raidforums member data leaked on new ‘Exposed’ hacking forum

Nvidia and MediaTek partner to advance in-car technology

Facebook users lose access after violations of linked spam Instagram accounts they don’t own

Lawyer’s reliance on ChatGPT leads to false case citations in airline lawsuit

Applied Intuition to acquire self-driving truck software company Embark for $71M

OpenAI offers grants for democratic experiments in AI system rules

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