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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Cloudflare fast-tracks post-quantum rollout as new research puts encryption on notice

Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it’s accelerating its post-quantum security roadmap and is now aiming to make its entire platform fully post-quantum-secure by 2029, including authentication systems. The updated timeline follows new developments in quantum computing research that suggest current cryptographic standards could be broken sooner than previously expected. The decision by Cloudflare to move ...

CoChat launches centralized workspace to unify AI chats, assistants and workflows for teams

CoChat Inc. a company providing an artificial intelligence collaboration platform for teams, today announced a new centralized workspace where employees can communicate, share AI chats, deploy assistants and generate automated workflows. The new platform is designed to deliver greater coordination, visibility and AI fluency while also mitigating tool sprawl and security risks for businesses. As employees ...

‘GrafanaGhost’ vulnerability allowed for silent data exfiltration through AI workflows

A new report out today from artificial intelligence security platform company Noma Security Inc. details a recently discovered vulnerability in Grafana that allowed sensitive enterprise data to be exfiltrated silently through the platform’s AI features. Dubbed “GrafanaGhost,” the vulnerability could have let an attacker bypass both client-side protections and AI guardrails to send private data from ...

Acronis launches 24/7 MDR service for service providers with integrated detection and response

Cybersecurity and data protection company Acronis International GmbH today announced the launch of Acronis MDR by Acronis TRU, a new globally available continuous managed detection and response service. The new MDR service has been built for managed service providers of any size and provides threat detection, rapid incident response and cyber resilience powered by the Acronis Threat ...

Nvidia-backed Firmus raises $505M at $5.5B valuation ahead of ASX IPO

Nvidia Corp.-backed Australian artificial intelligence data center company Firmus Technologies Pty. Ltd. today said it has raised $505 million in new funding on a $5.5 billion valuation ahead of an expected initial public offering on the Australian Stock Exchange later this year. Founded in 2019, Firums develops and operates data center infrastructure designed to support AI ...

PitchBook: US venture funding surges to record $267B as OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI dominate AI deals

U.S. venture capital activity surged to unprecedented levels in the first quarter of 2026, driven by a small number of outsized artificial intelligence deals that reshaped the overall market profile, according to a first look at the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released early Friday. According to the report, $267.2 billion in deal value was recorded during the quarter, ...

New Quanscient and Haiqu algorithm targets scalable fluid simulations on quantum computers

Researchers from quantum computing companies Quanscient Oy and Haiqu Inc. today announced that they have developed a new quantum computing algorithm designed to make computational fluid dynamics simulations more practical on quantum hardware. Developed and tested on IBM Corp.’s largest available quantum computer, the IBM Heron R3, the algorithm reduces the number of qubits required ...

Cloudflare debuts EmDash to challenge aging WordPress with AI-native CMS

Twenty-four years ago, two young coders launched a fork of the b2/cafelog log code called WordPress, a content management system for the then-emerging blogging world that over two decades later has grown into the most-used CMS on the planet. Though WordPress is now estimated to power around 40% of sites on the internet, not only spawning ...

HubSpot flips AI pricing on its head with outcome-based Breeze agents

Inbound marketing and customer relationship management platform HubSpot Inc. today announced it’s changing how customers pay for artificial intelligence with the introduction of an outcome-based pricing model for two of its core AI tools that ties cost directly to results rather than usage. The company is shifting its Breeze Customer Agent and Breeze Prospecting Agent ...

Datadog debuts Experiments to unify product testing and observability data

Cloud monitoring as a service company Datadog Inc. today announced the launch of Datadog Experiments, a new product that allows teams to design, launch and measure product experiments and A/B tests directly within its platform. The new offering is being pitched as giving teams the data and insights they need to understand how every change ...