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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Report reveals Facebook document that could help advertisers target insecure kids

An internal document confirmed as being real by Facebook Inc. is alleged to show that the social networking giant is exploiting young people as young as 14 in Australia by allowing advertisers to target them when they are at their most vulnerable. Obtained by The Australian, the 23-page Facebook document, dated 2017 and marked “Confidential: ...

New Mac malware spies on encrypted traffic

A newly discovered form of malware that targets users of Apple Inc. Mac computers can intercept and gain complete access to all victim communication, including encrypted traffic. Called OSX/Dok and first discovered by security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the malware is spread by an email phishing campaign that pretends to come from government ...

It’s another enterprise initial public offering, as Appian files to raise $86M

Business process management firm Appian Corp. is joining the rush to the stock market by enterprise software companies, announcing Friday that it has filed for an initial public offering. According to the S-1 filing, Appian is seeking an IPO of common stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “APPN.” The company did not disclose how ...

Big data pioneer Cloudera goes public with a 20% pop in shares

Big data pioneer Cloudera Inc. saw its stock pop about 20 percent today as it sold shares to the public for the first time. The nine-year-old company, which sells software for analyzing and storage huge amounts of data, saw shares rise on the New York Stock Exchange from an initial offering price of $15 to ...

Atlassian’s Confluence patched following discovery of a serious security issue

Despite topping earning estimates in its latest quarter, enterprise collaboration software maker Atlassian Corp. Plc. is having a bad week. The company was forced to deal with a second serious security issue Thursday after it revealed Monday that its group chat platform HipChat had been hacked. The latest problem comes from the company’s Confluence team collaboration ...

Cyberespionage and ransomware are on the rise, Verizon’s data breach report finds

Cyberespionage and ransomware attacks are increasing, though the forms of attack vary widely between different industries. That’s according to Verizon Communication Inc.’s latest annual Data Breach Investigations Report. Data collected for the report, which covered 2016, found that financial and insurance companies suffered six times more breaches from web application attacks versus those in the information ...

Apple’s first self-driving car spotted on the road in Silicon Valley

Apple Inc.’s on-again, off-again self-driving car project has finally hit the ground running. A test vehicle from the iPhone maker was spotted on a Silicon Valley road earlier this week. The vehicle, a white Lexus RX450h SUV, emerged from an Apple facility this week and was kitted out with an array of sensors, according to Bloomberg. From the photo, the Lexus ...

Report: Apple is building a person-to-person payments service like Venmo

Apple Inc. wants a slice of a peer-to-peer money transfer market and is currently working on a Venmo-like money transfer service, according to a report published Thursday. Recode, referencing “multiple sources familiar with the talks,” claims that the iPhone maker has recently held discussions with payments industry partners about introducing its own service, which would likely be an extension ...

Bitcoin nears record high after SEC agrees to review Winklevoss fund application

Bitcoin prices surged to near record highs Wednesday after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it was reviewing its decision to reject an application for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund proposed by the Winklevoss twins. The SEC rejected the initial application for the Bitcoin Trust ETF in March on the grounds that any ETF must have surveillance-sharing agreements with significant ...

Neural network startup Neurala receives patent for AI ‘whole brain’ system

Deep learning neural network software startup Neurala Inc. has announced it has received a patent for its “whole brain” system for autonomous robotic control. The Neurala Brain is a deep learning platform that allows artificial intelligence to function more like a human brain by integrating sight, sound and other senses into one system in a rough emulation of ...