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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Israeli media outlets hacked on anniversary of death of Iranian general

Two Israeli media outlets have been hacked with a threatening message left in relation to the killing of an Iranian general two years ago. The two targets were Jerusalem Post, an English language newspaper, and the Twitter Inc. account of the Hebrew language news site Maarvi. The hackers posted a picture of a fist firing ...

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on four fraud charges

Former Theranos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty today on four of the 11 counts she was being tried on, putting an end to one of the most sordid and downright strange tales of venture capital-funded tech startups to date. The tale of Theranos is a long one. Founded in Palo Alto in ...

Portuguese media group Impresa knocked offline in ransomware attack

Portuguese media group Impresa has been struck by a ransomware attack over the New Year’s holiday, taking its websites and online streaming services offline.  Impresa Sociedade Gstr D Prtcps Socsl SA, Portugal’s largest media company, is the owner of the SIC television channels and the Expresso weekly newspaper. First reported today by The Record, the attack is ...

Apple 2022 predictions: new AirPods, Macs and iPhones with hole-punch displays

Apple Inc. will release a range of new products in the year ahead, including updated AirPod earphones, Macs and iPhones with hole-punch displays, according to some of the best-known Apple watchers. Leading the pack is famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. His first prediction of the year is the latest AirPods release. Kuo predicts that Apple ...

Microsoft addresses Exchange bug that blocked emails starting on New Year’s Day

Microsoft Corp. has released an emergency fix for a bug that prevented on-premises Exchange servers from sending emails. According to a blog post from the Exchange team, the bug struck on Jan. 1 and related to a date-check feature with the change to the year. The team emphasized that it was not a failure of the ...

Vice Society hacks Norwegian newspaper, takes credit for Spar attack

The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.K. Spar wholesaler earlier this month and is being linked to an attack on a Norwegian newspaper this week. The first attack targeted Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co. on Dec. 6, resulting in Spar stores being unable to take card payments at ...

Tesla issues recall notice over faulty trunk latches and rear-view cameras

Shares of Tesla Inc. dropped today after the company issued a voluntary recall for hundreds of thousands of defective vehicles. The recall affects 356,309 2017-220 Model 3s and 110,009 2014-2021 Model S vehicles. The issues involve faulty latching of the vehicle’s hood and and the rear-view camera failing to display. With the Model S, the ...

Substandard living conditions prompt shutdown of iPhone plant in India

An iPhone manufacturing plant in India run by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, has been temporarily shut down following complaints of substandard living and working conditions. The workers at the factory in Tamil Nadu went on strike on Dec. 17 after 250 of the workers were sickened by what they ...

Apple and Google asked to remove ‘Play to Earn’ games in South Korea

The South Korean government has asked Apple Inc. and Google LLC to remove “Play to Earn” games from their respective stores and to block the release of new ones. So-called “P2E” gaming involves players earning cryptocurrency rewards and nonfungible tokens of NFTs from playing the games. According to Play to Earn Online Magazine, the model ...

W. Virginia employees to be paid despite Kronos remaining offline following ransomware attack

State employees in West Virginia will be paid on time this week, despite the state’s payroll processing being affected by the ransomware attack on workflow management solutions provider Kronos Inc. disclosed on Dec. 13. Local media reports that state payroll administrators went to “extraordinary lengths” during the Christmas week to ensure that employees would be paid ...