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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Daylight Security raises $33M to expand AI-driven managed detection and response

Israeli cybersecurity startup Daylight Security Inc. revealed today that it has raised $33 million in new funding to fuel its U.S. expansion, accelerate product development and support the launch of new artificial intelligence-driven modules for identity threat response and cloud workload protection. Founded earlier this year by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rodich, veterans of Israel’s ...

Anyscale and Microsoft team up to launch AI-native compute service on Azure

Anyscale Inc., creator of the open-source distributed computing platform Ray, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft Corp. and the private preview of a new artificial intelligence-native compute service co-developed with Microsoft and delivered as a fully managed, first-party offering on Azure. The new compute service, powered by Ray, offers an open-source distributed compute framework ...

JFrog discloses CVSS 9.8 React vulnerability putting millions of developers at risk

Security researchers at software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today revealed details of a critical vulnerability in React, the open-source JavaScript library developed by Meta Platforms Inc., that potentially puts millions of developers at risk of remote code execution. The JFrog Security Research team found the vulnerability in the popular @react-native-community/cli NPM package, which is downloaded more ...

Frontegg unveils AgentLink to bridge SaaS products with agentic AI through secure MCP connections

Identity management solution provider Frontegg Ltd. today announced the launch of FrontEgg AgentLink, an enterprise-grade Model Context Protocol server that allows software-as-a-service applications to open their application programming interfaces securely to artificial intelligence interfaces such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. AgentLink offers a unified control and communication layer that creates a hosted MCP server, applies ...

Veza expands Access AI and launches Access AuthZ to unify and automate identity security

Data security platform company Veza Inc. today announced a major expansion of its Access AI platform that extends the power of artificial intelligence to govern and secure all enterprise identities, and also introduced Access AuthZ to automate user provisioning and deprovisioning. The updates to Veza’s Access AI solution enable natural language explainability and intuitive query analysis for ...

Nexla launches Express to simplify data engineering with conversational AI

Data integration platform provider Nexla Inc. today announced the launch of Express, a conversational data engineering platform designed to make it simple for anyone to work with data. Express has been created to address what Nexla says is a bottleneck in artificial intelligence adoption: the complex, time-consuming process of preparing and integrating data from multiple sources to ...

Bugcrowd acquires AI security startup Mayhem to fuse hacker ingenuity with machine intelligence

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform company Bugcrowd Inc. today announced that it has acquired Mayhem Security, an artificial intelligence offensive security company, to advance the next generation of humans-in-the-loop, AI-powered security testing. Founded in 2012, Mayhem Security emerged from research at Carnegie Mellon University to automate the discovery and remediation of software vulnerabilities. The company was founded by cybersecurity ...

Google Cloud report warns of AI-driven cyberattacks and global extortion surge in 2026

A new report out today from Google Cloud Security is warning of artificial intelligence-driven cyberthreats and rising global extortion rates next year. The Cybersecurity Forecast 2026 report details how AI will transform both cyberattacks and defenses and how ransomware and state-sponsored operations continue to escalate worldwide, while offering a data-driven look at how the global ...

Fullstory acquires Usetiful to connect behavioral analytics with real-time user guidance

Data analytics company Fullstory Inc. announced today that it had acquired Usetiful, an Estonian digital adoption platform startup known for deploying guides and surveys in applications, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2019, Usetiful offers a platform that is designed to help software companies streamline user onboarding and boost feature adoption. The platform offers no-code tools for ...

Bria unveils FIBO foundation model for predictable and brand-safe AI generation

Enterprise-grade visual generative artificial intelligence startup Bria Artificial Intelligence Ltd. today announced the launch of FIBO, a new foundation model that introduces deterministic generation to the visual AI landscape. FIBO has been designed to allow enterprises to deploy visual AI in production environments and in doing so, eliminate the unpredictability of “prompt roulette” by enabling ...