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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Delinea introduces Iris AI to enhance identity security with real-time access control

Privileged access management firm Delinea Inc. today unveiled Iris AI, a new artificial intelligence engine built natively into the Delinea Platform. It includes real-time, evidence-based access decisions, intelligent auditing and adaptive controls to help organizations boost productivity, strengthen identity security and reduce complexity. The new offering has been designed to assist organizations that are facing mounting ...

Palantir posts 48% revenue growth and beats expectations across the board

Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. rose more than 3% in late trading today after the big data analytics company reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal second quarter and gave an outlook ahead of expectations thanks to surging growth. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Palantir reported adjusted earnings per share of ...

Contrast Security adds new integrations to extend reach of its application security platform

Application security startup Contrast Security Inc. today announced two new integrations for its Northstar platform with GitHub Copilot and Sumo Logic, expanding the reach of its runtime-native application detection and response solution. The new release builds on Contrast’s Northstar release that was announced earlier this year with an offering of unified detection, remediation and observability into a ...

Cloud breaches and identity hacks explode in CrowdStrike’s latest threat report

A new report out today from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has revealed a dramatic escalation in adversary sophistication, with cloud-focused attacks, identity-driven intrusions and generative artificial intelligence adoption driving a major shift in the cybersecurity threat landscape. The findings come from the CrowdStrike 2025 Threat Hunting report, based on a year of data through June 30 from ...

Trend Micro launches Digital Twin model for proactive cybersecurity defense

Japanese cybersecurity software company Trend Micro Inc. today unveiled a new cyber resilience model based on digital twin technology and agentic artificial intelligence. The new offering allows organizations to model their entire information technology and operational technology environments in real time, including support to simulate threats, validate defenses and adjust policies before attacks can occur. ...

Echo raises $15M to scale platform for vulnerability-free container images

Israeli enterprise-grade software infrastructure startup Echo Inc. announced today that it has raised $15 million in new funding to scale up its platform. Founded in 2023, Echo is a cybersecurity startup focused on eliminating software vulnerabilities at the source through artificial intelligence-powered infrastructure. The company pitches its offering as pioneering a new approach to vulnerability ...

Coinbase to expand core platform beyond cryptocurrency with tokenized real-world assets

Coinbase Inc. today announced that it’s planning to expand its core trading app beyond cryptocurrency, with a new “everything exchange” that will include tokenized real-world assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets and early-stage token sales. The plans were revealed by Max Branzburg, vice president of product at Coinbase, in an interview with CNBC. “We’re building an ...

Cloudflare beats earnings estimates with strong revenue and customer growth

Shares in Cloudflare Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after the content delivery network company impressed investors with earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal second quarter and offered forecasts higher than expected. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Cloudflare reported adjusted earnings per share of 21 cents, up from ...

Samsung earnings dip as chip division weighs on results despite mobile and display growth

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today reported a steep decline in quarterly profits as a result of ongoing volatility in the semiconductor market, as the company’s chip business once again weighed on overall earnings. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Samsung reported consolidated revenue of 74.6 trillion won ($57.4 billion), up 1% year-over-year but ...

Legion raises $38M to automate SOC workflows through browser-native AI

Browser-native artificial intelligence security operations center startup Legion Security Inc. today launched with an announcement that it has raised $38 million in funding to accelerate product development, expand customer deployment and grow its team to deliver automated security operations that learn from and mimic in-house analyst workflows. The company was founded in 2024 by security ...