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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Operant AI launches Woodpecker to bring open-source red teaming to AI and cloud environments

Operant AI Inc., a startup that offers a runtime application protection platform, today announced the launch of Woodpecker, an open-source, automated red teaming engine that helps make advanced security testing accessible to organizations of all sizes. Woodpecker seeks to assist organizations with security vulnerabilities that are becoming more sophisticated and challenging to detect as cloud-native ...

Atera debuts IT Autopilot to offload Tier 1 tasks from technicians

Atera Networks Ltd. a startup that offeres information technology management with artificial intelligence agents, today announced the launch of IT Autopilot, a new autonomous IT solution. The new platform builds on the success of Atera’s AI Copilot, which already allows IT technicians to save between 11 and 13 hours per week. IT Autopilot takes the basics ...

Palo Alto Networks stock slips despite earnings and guidance beats

Shares in Palo Alto Networks Inc. declined mroe than 3% in late trading today despite the network management and security firm reporting beats in its fiscal 2025 third quarter and giving a better-than-expected earnings forecast. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Palo Alto Networks reported adjusted earnings per share of 80 cents, up ...

Google launches Beam platform for 3D enterprise video communication

Google LLC today unveiled Google Beam, a new artificial intelligence-powered enterprise-focused 3D video communication platform designed to bring remote collaboration closer to in-person interaction. Beam is an evolution of Project Starline, a multiyear research initiative first announced in 2021 that was aimed at redefining video calls through advanced AI and imaging technologies. Project Starline enabled ...

Flow filmmaking platform headlines new wave of Google generative AI tools

Google LLC today announced its newest generative artificial intelligence media creation models that it says will transform how creators bring stories to life. Flow Headlining the announcements is Flow, a dedicated AI-powered filmmaking tool that integrates technologies with Google’s Gemini AI, alongside Veo 3, a state-of-the-art video generation model and Imagen 4, a next-generation image ...

New Sentry logging feature adds structured logs to error tracking workflow

Application performance monitoring company Sentry Inc. today announced the open beta release of its new logging capabilities, adding native support for structured logs directly within the company’s platform for JavaScript and Python applications. The company says the feature brings logs into the same workflow as error and performance monitoring, offering developers a more unified debugging ...

Alation acquires Numbers Station to expand AI agent capabilities for enterprise data workflows

Data intelligence company Alation Inc. announced today it has acquired Numbers Station Inc., a startup that’s building artificial intelligence agents for data workflows, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2021 when it was spun out of Stanford University’s AI research labs, Numbers Station specializes in building AI agents that automate complex data workflows, targeting the ...

Exabeam and Vectra AI partner to improve threat detection and cloud visibility

Security intelligence and management solutions company Exabeam Inc. today announced a new partnership with threat detection and response firm Vectra AI Inc. to accelerate threat detection and simplify security operations. The partnership sees the integration of the Exabeam New-Scale Security Operations Platform, including security information and event management, user and entity behavior analytics and automated workflows, with the Vectra ...

TrustCloud raises $15M to boost AI and go-to-market for security assurance

Security assurance platform company TrustCloud Corp. announced today that it has raised $15 million in new funding in a round led by ServiceNow Ventures to accelerate enterprise go-to-market and channel operations and enhance its artificial intelligence capabilities. Founded in 2018, TrustCloud offers an AI-native security assurance platform that is designed to modernize governance, risk and ...

Strider upgrades Spark platform to deliver faster threat intelligence against nation-state attacks

Strategic intelligence platform startup Strider Technologies Inc. today unveiled significant upgrades to its artificial intelligence-driven threat intelligence engine, Spark, that are aimed at helping organizations detect and mitigate risks from state-sponsored actors more quickly. The platform now allows customers to combine Strider’s intelligence with their own internal data to create an AI-powered “outside-in” model that delivers real-time, ...