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

Microsoft sues Chinese company over Xbox game currency theft

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has filed a lawsuit alleging a Chinese company illegally accessed Xbox accounts to purchase game currencies using the credit card details of the victims. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California and first discovered by Bleeping …

Apple Watch designer debuts an insanely expensive and ostentatious … hourglass

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Marc Newson, the Apple Inc. designer who along with Jony Ive gave the world the Apple Watch, has turned to a new form of timekeeping — in this case, an insanely expensive and ostentatious hourglass. The “Marc Newson Hourglass For HODINKEE” is …

Media player users urged to update software to stop subtitle hacking vulnerability

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Users of popular media players such as Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time are being urgently warned to update their software after it was discovered that hackers could embed hidden computer viruses in the subtitles used by the services. Discovered by security firm Check …

Judge orders Uber to hand over Otto due-diligence report to Waymo

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The judge presiding over the Waymo Inc. lawsuit alleging that Uber Technologies Inc. stole its self-driving car technology has delivered another blow to the ride-hailing giant. The ruling says Uber must hand over an unredacted version of a due-diligence report it prepared …

Samba patches bug that allows hackers to upload malicious files

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The administrators behind the open-source Samba software platform have issued an emergency patch for a security hole that potentially could allow hackers to upload malicious files to vulnerable servers running the software. The vulnerability – CVE-2017-7494 – affects versions 3.5 and onwards of the software, …

Business process management firm Appian goes public, shares up over 25%

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Business process management firm Appian Corp. today sold shares to the public for the first time, going out at $12 a share and seeing an immediate pop of nearly 35 percent. The Reston, Virginia-based company had announced late Wednesday that it raised $75 million …

Bogus Android apps in Google Play store promise WannaCry protection

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Scammers are using the unprecedented global coverage of the spread of the WannaCry ransomware to dupe Android users into downloading bogus apps that pretend to provide protection against it, despite the fact that WannaCry only works on Windows computers. The apps, which according to …

White House proposes law to let law enforcement shoot down drones

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Trump administration wants to shoot down drones. While that statement may sound extreme in an era of “fake news,” it actually has a factual basis. The White House is said to be floating proposed legislation that would allow federal law enforcement …

Russian group delivers the first unhackable quantum-safe blockchain

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Quantum computing and the blockchain both get plenty of attention in 2017, and now researchers in Russia have combined the two to create what they claim is an unhackable distributed-ledger platform. The new technology, described as the “first quantum-safe blockchain,” promises to …

Social-justice kumbaya version of Reddit closes after burning through $11M in funding

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Imzy, a site founded by former Reddit Inc. Vice President Dan McComas and pitched as a safe-space alternative to Reddit itself, is folding up shop. McComas posted Wednesday that despite having raised $11 million in venture capital funding, the site was shutting down. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Microsoft sues Chinese company over Xbox game currency theft

Apple Watch designer debuts an insanely expensive and ostentatious … hourglass

Media player users urged to update software to stop subtitle hacking vulnerability

Judge orders Uber to hand over Otto due-diligence report to Waymo

Samba patches bug that allows hackers to upload malicious files

Business process management firm Appian goes public, shares up over 25%

Bogus Android apps in Google Play store promise WannaCry protection

White House proposes law to let law enforcement shoot down drones

Russian group delivers the first unhackable quantum-safe blockchain

Social-justice kumbaya version of Reddit closes after burning through $11M in funding

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