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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LinkedIn introduces Northguard and Xinfra to replace Kafka for scalable log storage

LinkedIn today launched Northguard and Xinfra, two new internal infrastructure systems designed to address the growing challenges of log storage and messaging at massive scale. The offerings mark a significant evolution from the company’s longstanding use of Apache Kafka, the distributed event streaming platform it originally developed and open-sourced. Though LinkedIn has used Kafka for ...

Fortanix launches PQC Central to assess cryptographic risk and exposure

Multicloud security firm Fortanix Inc. today announced the launch of PQC Central, a new feature in its Key Insight tool that reframes how enterprises approach the post-quantum cryptography challenge. The new feature seeks to address the security challenges that will arise with the emergence of quantum computing, which will threaten current cryptographic standards and demand proactive adaptation. ...

Researchers uncover weak encryption in SAP user interface for Windows and Java

SAP SE today addressed two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in its SAP Graphical User Interface client applications following their discovery in coordinated research by Pathlock Inc. and Fortinet Inc. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-0055 and CVE-2025-0056, involved weak or absent encryption in the input history function of SAP GUI for Windows and SAP GUI for Java, ...

Tines adds AI-powered agents to expand enterprise workflow automation

Workflow automation company Tines Security Services Ltd. today announced the launch of agents, a new product feature that introduces autonomous artificial intelligence capabilities directly into its platform. The new agents offering allows customers to automate workflows with maximum control and flexibility, whether with deterministic logic, human-in-the-loop copilots or full AI autonomy. Tines customers can use ...

Samsara adds AI-powered tools to boost fleet safety and worker protection

Internet of things cloud platform provider Samsara Inc. today unveiled a broad set of new artificial intelligence-powered solutions that are aimed at transforming safety, efficiency and operational intelligence across the physical operations sector. The company’s latest offerings include updates to its Connected Operations Platform with innovations spanning vehicle safety, routing, maintenance and worker protection, both inside and ...

Chronosphere introduces Logs 2.0 to reduce observability data noise

Cloud-native observability company Chronosphere Inc. today announced the launch of Chronosphere Logs 2.0, an upgraded solution that delivers control over data and helps customers boost signal, remove noise and reduce costs at large scale in cloud-native environments. The release is part of a unified observability experience that offers a single platform to correlate logs with metrics, events ...

Snyk acquires Invariant Labs to expand AI agent security capabilities

Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Invariant Labs AG, a Swiss artificial intelligence security research firm, for an undisclosed price. Spun off as a separate company from ETH Zurich university in 2024, Invariant Labs builds tools and frameworks to help developers construct secure, robust and reliable AI agents. The company is also an ...

Komodor expands Kubernetes platform with real-time cost optimization tools

Komodor Ltd. today unveiled new cost optimization capabilities to its Kubernetes management platform that allow organizations to reduce cloud spend while maintaining performance and reliability across their entire Kubernetes estate. Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration platform for containers, which contain microservices, the components of modern applications — something of an operating systems for clusters of ...

New Tumeryk and DataKrypto integration offers full-pipeline AI encryption

Artificial intelligence trust scoring company Tumeryk Inc. today announced a strategic integration with AI encryption firm DataKrypto Co. to launch a joint service that they claim offers the world’s first encrypted guardrails for operational AI security. The new Encrypted Guardrails for Operational Security combines DataKrypto’s real-time encryption of retrieval-augmented generation data, model weights and prompt ...

Gigamon launches AI Traffic Intelligence and Copilot assistant to strengthen hybrid cloud security

Cloud visibility and analytics company Gigamon Inc. today announced the first phase of its multiyear artificial intelligence strategy, introducing foundational innovations designed to help organizations better secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure. The initial offerings include Gigamon AI Traffic Intelligence, a service that offers real-time visibility into generative AI and large language model traffic across 17 leading ...