April 2025

1inch launches on Solana with crosschain swaps in the pipeline 2025-04-29 at 11:04 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator 1inch has launched on Solana, marking a significant step toward its vision of a “unified multichain” decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph, the integration enables users to […]

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Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists 2025-04-29 at 10:30 By Thomas Claburn ‘When we look at the economic outcomes, it really has not moved the needle’ Instead of depressing wages or taking jobs, generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have had almost no wage or labor

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Russian ruble stablecoin: Exec lists 7 ‘Tether replica’ features 2025-04-29 at 10:05 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz The concept of a Russian ruble stablecoin received special attention at a major local crypto event, the Blockchain Forum in Moscow, with key industry executives reflecting on some of the core features a ruble-backed stablecoin might require. Sergey

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Abu Dhabi institutional giants team up for dirham stablecoin 2025-04-29 at 10:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte A trio of major Abu Dhabi institutions, including the Emirate’s sovereign wealth fund, have teamed up to launch a new dirham-pegged stablecoin. Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADQ, the United Arab Emirates’ largest bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank

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Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science 2025-04-29 at 10:05 By Simon Sharwood They’re sorry/not sorry for testing if bots can change minds by pretending to be a trauma counselor or a victim of sexual abuse Researchers from the University of Zurich have admitted to secretly posting

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Malware Attack Targets World Uyghur Congress Leaders via Trojanized UyghurEdit++ Tool 2025-04-29 at 09:36 By In a new campaign detected in March 2025, senior members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) living in exile have been targeted by a Windows-based malware that’s capable of conducting surveillance. The spear-phishing campaign involved the use of a trojanized

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Bankera founders used ICO funds on global property buys: Report 2025-04-29 at 09:05 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The founders of the crypto fintech firm Bankera used funds from the project’s 2018 initial coin offering to purchase luxury properties worldwide, according to a report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The OCCRP reported

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Zurich Uni’s secret AI experiment manipulated Redditors’ opinions 2025-04-29 at 09:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Researchers at the University of Zurich have been accused of undertaking an unauthorized four-month-long experiment on a Reddit board using artificial intelligence-generated comments to test whether AI could alter people’s opinions.  As part of the experiment, AI-powered accounts faked

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Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V 2025-04-29 at 08:42 By Simon Sharwood One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending Amazon’s first attempt to hoist production versions of its Project Kuiper broadband-beaming satellites appears to have succeeded.… This article is an

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CISA Adds Actively Exploited Broadcom and Commvault Flaws to KEV Database 2025-04-29 at 08:21 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two high-severity security flaws impacting Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS and Commvault Web Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The

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Samourai Wallet, feds ask for time to mull dropping crypto mixer case 2025-04-29 at 08:05 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young US federal prosecutors and the co-founders of the crypto mixer Samourai Wallet have asked a court for more time to consider potentially dismissing the case after the Justice Department rolled back its crypto enforcement. Lawyers

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