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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Cyata flags agentic AI supply-chain risk in Cursor remote code execution bug

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

A new report out today from artificial intelligence security startup Cyata Security Ltd. details a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Cursor Inc.’s integrated development environment that exposed risks tied to trusted installation workflows and agentic AI tooling. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-64106 …

Edison Scientific raises $70M to build autonomous AI scientists for research

AI By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

Edison Scientific Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup building autonomous AI scientists to help accelerate scientific research, announced today that it has raised $70 million in new funding to expand its operations and development efforts. Founded earlier this year as a …

BlackBerry beats earnings expectations as shares swing after-hours

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. were volatile in after-hours trading today after the company reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 third quarter. For the quarter that ended on Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported adjusted earnings per share of five cents, up …

Fastly report finds bot traffic now makes up nearly a third of all web requests

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly sophisticated headless bots drive both operational strain and new business decisions across industries. The …

Ankar raises $20M to expand AI-powered patent operating system

AI By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

Artificial intelligence operating system for patents startup Ankar.ai Ltd. today revealed that it has raised $20 million in new funding to grow its team and expand further into the U.S. Founded in 2023 in the U.K., Ankar has built an AI-powered operating …

NIST releases draft AI cybersecurity framework profile to guide secure AI adoption

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a preliminary draft of its Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence which provides guidance for the secure adoption of AI. The draft takes the existing NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 structure that helps …

ShinyHunters claims theft of Pornhub Premium user data in extortion attempt

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the theft of a large dataset tied to Pornhub Premium users, threatening to leak or sell the information unless the company pays a ransom. The hack of PornHub was first revealed by the adult …

NCC Group report finds ransomware activity plateaued in November as tactics evolve

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

A new report out today from information assurance firm NCC Group PLC finds that global ransomware activity plateaued in November even as attackers continued to refine their tactics and collaboration models. The findings come from the NCC Group November 2025 Cyber Threat …

Cyderes acquires Lucidum to strengthen identity-aware security data foundation

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

Managed cybersecurity services company Cyderes LLC today announced that it has acquired security data fabric and entity intelligence firm Lucidum Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Lucidum offers a security data fabric platform that is designed to give organizations a …

Google tests CC AI agent to summarize email, calendars and documents

AI By DUNCAN RILEY10 MONTHS AGO

Google LLC, through its Google Labs division, today rolled out a new artificial intelligence agent that is designed to help users manage daily tasks by summarizing information across email, calendars, documents and the web. Called CC, the new tool, is built on …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Cyata flags agentic AI supply-chain risk in Cursor remote code execution bug

Edison Scientific raises $70M to build autonomous AI scientists for research

BlackBerry beats earnings expectations as shares swing after-hours

Fastly report finds bot traffic now makes up nearly a third of all web requests

Ankar raises $20M to expand AI-powered patent operating system

NIST releases draft AI cybersecurity framework profile to guide secure AI adoption

ShinyHunters claims theft of Pornhub Premium user data in extortion attempt

NCC Group report finds ransomware activity plateaued in November as tactics evolve

Cyderes acquires Lucidum to strengthen identity-aware security data foundation

Google tests CC AI agent to summarize email, calendars and documents

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