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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Dataminr launches Developer Portal and enhanced SDK to simplify AI integration

Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today announced the launch of Dataminr Developer Portal and an enhanced Software Development Kit to make it easier for developers and partners to integrate its artificial intelligence-powered real-time intelligence into applications. The Dataminr Developer Portal has been designed to streamline the entire integration journey by giving users frictionless access ...

Keeper Security debuts Forcefield to block memory-based attacks on Windows

Cybersecurity software company Keeper Security Inc. today announced the launch of Keeper Forcefield, a new service that provides protection against memory-based attacks on Windows devices. Forcefield offers kernel-level endpoint security that proactively defends against memory-based attacks, including credential theft from infostealers and runtime memory-scraping malware. Keeper claims that the offering is the first to deliver real-time memory ...

Snap stock jumps on Perplexity AI partnership and better-than-expected earnings results

Shares in Snap Inc. jumped more than 20% in late trading today after the company announced a new deal with Perplexity AI Inc. and impressed investors with earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal third quarter. The new partnership with Perplexity will see Perplexity’s artificial intelligence-powered “answer engine” directly integrated into Snapchat, giving Snapchat’s community ...

Google warns that a new era of self-evolving, AI-driven malware has begun

A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that there has been a major shift in cybercrime as attackers are no longer using artificial intelligence solely for productivity but are now deploying AI-enabled malware directly in active operations. The GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Advances in Threat Actor Usage of AI Tools ...

Fintary lands $10M to modernize insurance commission management

Revenue growth platform startup Fintary Technologies Inc. announced today that it has raised $10 million in new funding to expand its product capabilities and extend its artificial intelligence-powered platform into broader areas of insurance financial management. Founded in 2021, Fintary offers a platform designed to transform how insurance companies handle their commission and financial operational ...

Malanta debuts with $10M to help enterprises neutralize threats before they strike

Pre-attack prevention platform startup Malanta launched today with an announcement that it has raised $10 million in funding. It plans to use the money to add new Indicators of Pre-Attack types and data sources and deepen integrations so customers can automatically apply Malanta’s preemptive intelligence across their existing controls. Founded in 2024, Malanta’s offering is ...

Daylight Security raises $33M to expand AI-driven managed detection and response

Israeli cybersecurity startup Daylight Security Inc. revealed today that it has raised $33 million in new funding to fuel its U.S. expansion, accelerate product development and support the launch of new artificial intelligence-driven modules for identity threat response and cloud workload protection. Founded earlier this year by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, veterans of Israel’s ...

Anyscale and Microsoft team up to launch AI-native compute service on Azure

Anyscale Inc., creator of the open-source distributed computing platform Ray, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft Corp. and the private preview of a new artificial intelligence-native compute service co-developed with Microsoft and delivered as a fully managed, first-party offering on Azure. The new compute service, powered by Ray, offers an open-source distributed compute framework ...

JFrog discloses CVSS 9.8 React vulnerability putting millions of developers at risk

Security researchers at software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today revealed details of a critical vulnerability in React, the open-source JavaScript library developed by Meta Platforms Inc., that potentially puts millions of developers at risk of remote code execution. The JFrog Security Research team found the vulnerability in the popular @react-native-community/cli NPM package, which is downloaded more ...

Frontegg unveils AgentLink to bridge SaaS products with agentic AI through secure MCP connections

Identity management solution provider Frontegg Ltd. today announced the launch of FrontEgg AgentLink, an enterprise-grade Model Context Protocol server that allows software-as-a-service applications to open their application programming interfaces securely to artificial intelligence interfaces such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. AgentLink offers a unified control and communication layer that creates a hosted MCP server, applies ...