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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Cato Networks and CrowdStrike partner to unify network and endpoint security

Networking and security company Cato Networks Ltd. today unveiled a partnership with CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. to integrate their platforms and give security teams a single view of network and endpoint data. The integration ties the Cato SASE Platform to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. Analysts get endpoint alerts and network activity side by side, which the companies say ...

Google rolls out selfie video sign-in for account recovery

Google LLC today added a new sign-in option for its accounts: a short selfie video that Google uses to confirm a user’s identity when the usual login fails. The target is account recovery, the situation where a user cannot get to an account they own. Google is presenting the selfie as an addition to existing ...

ServiceNow beats estimates and raises outlook as AI passes $1B in bookings

Shares in ServiceNow Inc. rose more than 3% in late trading today after the enterprise software company beat Wall Street targets across every headline metric in its fiscal second quarter and raised its full-year subscription revenue outlook, as its artificial intelligence products crossed $1 billion in annual contract value for the first time. For the ...

Exclusive: StrongestLayer raises $4.1M for reasoning-based email security

Artificial intelligence-based email security startup StrongestLayer Inc. revealed today that it has raised $4.1 million in new funding to expand its platform and go-to-market push ahead of a planned Series A round. Founded in 2024, StrongestLayer offers software that skips the signatures, reputation databases and past-attack patterns that most email security relies on. Instead, it ...

OneSpan debuts DigipassONE platform to modernize bank authentication

Electronic signature and authentication cybersecurity company OneSpan Inc. today launched DigipassONE, a unified platform that pulls its authentication, transaction security, in-app protection, analytics and digital credential products together under a single architecture. The company is pitching the platform at financial institutions that need to modernize authentication without ripping out what they already have. Most banks ...

Lookout launches tool to expose vulnerable code hidden inside mobile apps

Mobile security company Lookout Inc. today launched the Lookout Mobile Software Exposure Center, a tool that lets organizations continuously identify, assess and prioritize the software exposure risk buried inside the mobile apps running on their employees’ devices. The capability is delivered as a core part of the company’s Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security platform, using the ...

Block launches Buzz, an open-source workspace for humans and AI agents

Financial services company Block Inc. today launched Buzz, a free open-source workspace built for teams of humans and AI agents. The agents are full members with their own accounts, not chatbots answering prompts. Buzz combines team chat with code hosting and automated workflows, and Block is going after companies that now run their work across ...

OpenAI says its own AI models broke out of testing and hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled testing environment and hacked open-source AI platform Hugging Face Inc. to cheat on an internal benchmark in what the company called an unprecedented cyber incident. The two models, OpenAI’s latest publicly available model GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable ...

Google expands Gemini with cheaper models and a bug-hunter it keeps on a leash

Google LLC today launched three new Gemini Flash models and moved its CodeMender code-security agent into preview, part of a push to run artificial intelligence agents more cheaply and to automate the finding and fixing of software vulnerabilities. The new models are Gemini 3.6 Flash, an updated version of the workhorse model Google positions for ...

Box adds security controls to govern AI agents working with enterprise content

Box Inc. today introduced security controls aimed at the artificial intelligence agents now working across enterprise content. The controls apply to agents built in Box and to outside tools connected to it, including Anthropic PBC’s Claude, OpenAI Group PBC’s ChatGPT and Google LLC’s Gemini. Rather than run as a separate product, the controls sit at the ...