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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

Daimler to provide Uber with self-driving Mercedes-Benz cars

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. has signed a deal with German automaker Daimler AG that will see Mercede-Benz vehicles joining Uber’s self-driving car fleet. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nor was a timeline, only a commitment that the vehicle would be joining Uber …

Former Federal Reserve employee fined for mining bitcoin at work

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A former Federal Reserve employee has been fined $5,000 and placed on 12 months’ probation for mining bitcoin from a server at the central bank. Nicholas Berthaume, who previously worked as a communications analyst for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, was …

Study: Common printers in enterprises are vulnerable to hacking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A new study has found that printers commonly used in enterprise environments are a security risk that can be exploited to leak information and execute code. The study, Exploiting Printer Security from Ruhr-Universität Bochum researcher Jens Müller, analyzed 20 printers and multi-function printers to find that every …

Hotel ransomware attack leaves guests locked out of rooms

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A group of visitors to a luxury hotel in Austria found themselves locked out of their rooms following a targeted ransomware attack that disabled the resort’s central key management system. The attack that targeted the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt hotel, leaving guests unable to get into their …

Facebook finally shuts down its Parse mobile development platform

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has officially closed its Parse mobile development platform some 12 months after announcing that it intended to do so. Parse, which was used by developers to build mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows and other platforms, was acquired by Facebook for $85 million in …

Jennifer Lawrence photo hacker sentenced to nine months in jail

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The hacker behind the infamous “celebgate/fappening” hacking scandal in 2014 that resulted in erotic images of celebrities appearing online has been sentenced to nine months in prison. Edward Majerczyk, 28, of Chicago, had previously pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to …

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