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

Apple argues Qualcomm is illegally double-dipping with royalty payments

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. has escalated its argument in its patent royalties case against Qualcomm Technologies Inc. with a new filing arguing that its licensing agreement with the chip maker is invalid because it constitutes illegal double-dipping. The $1 billion lawsuit, filed by Apple …

South Korean web host pays record $1M after ransomware attack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A South Korean hosting company has paid what is believed to be a record high payment after their servers were taken over by ransomware. The attack, which targeted the Internet company Nayana Inc., saw 153 Linux servers at the company hosting 3,400 websites …

Mexican government caught illegally attempting to hack phones

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In a case that some may regard as “cultural appropriation” from its cousin north of the border, the Mexican government has been caught attempting to illegally hack phones through the use of a coordinated malware campaign that targeted journalists, lawyers and political activists. …

Another bill aims to let local and state governments set their own drone regulations

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Fresh from a previous bill that would decentralize drone regulations, a new bipartisan bill presented to the House of Representatives Monday proposes that state and local governments be allowed to make their own laws on drones flying within their jurisdictions. The Drone Innovation …

Countering public cloud trend, Dropbox announces big expansion to its in-house data hosting

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Cloud storage provider Dropbox Inc. has announced that it is massively expanding its edge network 15 months after it decided to leave Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud to host its data in-house. The expansion will see the yet-to-go-public startup deploy its own custom-built …

Microsoft and Accenture team up to build a blockchain-based global ID platform

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with management consulting firm Accenture PLC to design a blockchain-based platform that provides identification services to people worldwide. Presented at the United Nations Monday, the platform is intended to help people such as refugees who have lost …

Research shows how router LED lights can be used to steal data

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Researchers have found a way to steal data from any router in the most unlikely of ways: observing the LED lights on the front of the router. The paper from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev describes how the LED functionality can be silently …

Electronic cancer: E-cigarettes can be used to spread malware and hijack PCs

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The use of the increasingly popular smoking alternative e-cigarettes may be 95 percent safer than smoking a traditional cigarette, but they may not be so safe for your computers, according to two new demonstrated proofs-of-concept. The first comes from security researcher Ross Bevington, who …

Blockchain-based supercomputing startup SONM raises $42M in initial coin offering

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

SONM Pte. Ltd., a startup that is looking to built a cloud supercomputer using blockchain technology, has raised $42 million in an initial coin offering that saw investments from 8,774 participants. The company is attempted to build a “Supercomputer Organized by Network Mining” that …

Google to use AI and machine learning to tackle extremist content on YouTube

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. is upping its fight against the spread of extremist content on its YouTube service by rolling out new artificial-intelligence services in conjunction with additional human oversight to stop it faster. The advanced AI platform will use ongoing machine learning research that …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Apple argues Qualcomm is illegally double-dipping with royalty payments

South Korean web host pays record $1M after ransomware attack

Mexican government caught illegally attempting to hack phones

Another bill aims to let local and state governments set their own drone regulations

Microsoft and Accenture team up to build a blockchain-based global ID platform

Research shows how router LED lights can be used to steal data

Electronic cancer: E-cigarettes can be used to spread malware and hijack PCs

Blockchain-based supercomputing startup SONM raises $42M in initial coin offering

Google to use AI and machine learning to tackle extremist content on YouTube

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