March 2025

Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I’m building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that? 2025-03-26 at 09:30 By Simon Sharwood Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss’s Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission Elon Musk may have launched hundreds of rockets and sent his own Tesla Roadster into space, but

IMX surges 15% after Immutable says SEC ended probe 2025-03-26 at 09:09 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons The token tied to the crypto gaming giant Immutable surged 15% in the hours after it announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission closed its investigation into the firm and would take no further action. The Immutable

Ransomware incidents increase by 132%, vishing by 1,633% 2025-03-26 at 09:08 By New research reveals evolutions in threat actor techniques, with emphasis on ransomware and vishing. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

North Carolina bills would add crypto to state’s retirement system 2025-03-26 at 08:05 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea North Carolina lawmakers have introduced bills in the House and Senate that could see the state’s treasurer allocate up to 5% of various state retirement funds into cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The Investment Modernization Act (House Bill

SEC plans 4 more crypto roundtables on trading, custody, tokenization, DeFi 2025-03-26 at 08:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte The US Securities and Exchange Commission will host four more crypto roundtables — focusing on crypto trading, custody, tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi) — after hosting its first crypto roundtable on March 21. The series of

Custodia and Vantage Bank partner for ‘first bank-issued stablecoin’ 2025-03-26 at 08:05 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The crypto-friendly Custodia Bank has worked with Vantage Bank to complete what the two firms say is “America’s first-ever bank-issued stablecoin” on a permissionless blockchain. Custodia said on March 25 that it tokenized US dollar demand deposits and

ChatGPT won’t generate images of ‘sexy women’ — but will make images of ‘sexy men’ due to apparent ‘bug’ 2025-03-26 at 07:47 By Shane Galvin When pressed for a reason, ChatGPT gave a long-winded answer on the basis of objectification of women, but it seemingly had no problem crafting up a sexualized man. This article

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software 2025-03-26 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens’s US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations.… This article is an excerpt from The

Bitcoin, Ethereum to end Q1 in the red, ‘vertical swing up’ unlikely 2025-03-26 at 07:01 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Bitcoin and Ethereum are poised to suffer their worst first quarter in years unless they can pull off a huge rally in the next few days. Ether (ETH) has dropped 37.98% so far over the

Crusoe to sell Bitcoin mining business to NYDIG to focus on AI 2025-03-26 at 07:01 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng Crusoe Energy, a company that captures waste gas from oil to power high-performance compute, is selling its Bitcoin mining business to New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) to focus on artificial intelligence.  In a March

Zero-Day Alert: Google Releases Chrome Patch for Exploit Used in Russian Espionage Attacks 2025-03-26 at 07:01 By Google has released out-of-band fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser for Windows that it said has been exploited in the wild as part of attacks targeting organizations in Russia.  The vulnerability, tracked as

New Security Flaws Found in VMware Tools and CrushFTP — High Risk, No Workaround 2025-03-26 at 07:01 By Broadcom has issued security patches to address a high-severity security flaw in VMware Tools for Windows that could lead to an authentication bypass. Tracked as CVE-2025-22230, the vulnerability is rated 7.8 on the ten-point Common Vulnerability Scoring

Crypto influencer Ben ‘Bitboy’ Armstrong arrested in Florida 2025-03-26 at 06:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, also known as “BitBoy,” has been arrested in Florida after disclosing on social media just days ago that a warrant was out for his arrest. Florida’s Volusia County Division of Corrections listed Armstrong as a

Pirating pioneer Napster sells for $207M with plans for music metaverse 2025-03-26 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Artificial intelligence startup Infinite Reality has acquired the music-pirating app turned music streaming service Napster in a $207 million deal and plans to add a music-focused metaverse.  Infinite Reality said in a March 25 statement that

India ditches its ‘Google Tax’, perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs 2025-03-26 at 05:02 By Simon Sharwood Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation India again ditches a tech tax, perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs Already binned an e-commerce tax last year The lower house of

Revenge of the nerds: Boffins sue to undo Trump science funding cuts 2025-03-26 at 02:10 By Thomas Claburn Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates … right? Two academic organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday for the allegedly unlawful withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University and associated demands