April 2025

Tesla’s Optimus can’t roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain’t budging yet 2025-04-23 at 20:05 By Richard Speed Officials seek assurances that bot won’t be used for military applications Elon Musk says supply chain disruption in China held up delivery of a key component for Tesla’s “Optimus” robot, with authorities reportedly demanding an export […]

Riot Platforms secures $100M ‘Bitcoin-backed’ loan from Coinbase 2025-04-23 at 19:14 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Riot Platforms has used its massive Bitcoin stockpile as collateral to secure a $100 million credit facility from Coinbase as the cryptocurrency miner eyes continued expansion.  The $100 million loan from Coinbase’s credit arm marks Riot’s “first Bitcoin-backed facility,”

Why red teaming matters even more when AI starts setting its own agenda 2025-04-23 at 19:14 By AI tools are quickly being designed to grow more capable and more autonomous — and therefore more unpredictable.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Research reveals mass scanning and exploitation campaigns 2025-04-23 at 19:14 By Research reveals mass scanning and exploitation campaigns associated with Proton66.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Only 3,000 staff jump from SAP after 10,000 earmarked to be pushed 2025-04-23 at 18:51 By Lindsay Clark CFO says ‘a cushion of several thousand employees we can play with’ is a good thing in uncertain times SAP says 3,000 people have left the company in its restructuring plan but that it will wait to

Institutions break up with Ethereum but keep ETH on the hook 2025-04-23 at 18:31 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Ethereum is entering one of its most precarious periods since its inception. Usage on the base layer is plummeting, core metrics are nearing multi-year lows, and even co-founder Vitalik Buterin is proposing a radical architectural overhaul. 

What are XRP futures and how to invest in them? 2025-04-23 at 18:31 By Cointelegraph by Onkar Singh If you’re following developments in the cryptocurrency market, you’ve likely noticed that Coinbase Derivatives has introduced XRP futures contracts to its US derivatives exchange. This move is part of a broader trend where regulated platforms are expanding

Blockchain prediction markets offer new hope for scientific validation 2025-04-23 at 18:31 By Cointelegraph by Sasha Shilina Opinion by: Sasha Shilina, PhD, founder of Episteme and researcher at Paradigm Research Institute Decentralized prediction markets are gaining ground in the scientific world, offering an intriguing answer to the field’s ongoing reproducibility crisis. While a notable share

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA 2025-04-23 at 17:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship Meta and Apple have earned the dubious honor of being the first companies fined for non-compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act,

PayPal to offer 3.7% yield on stablecoin balances: Report 2025-04-23 at 17:20 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Payments behemoth PayPal plans to offer a 3.7% yield on balances held in its PayPal USD stablecoin. According to an April 23 Bloomberg report, a PayPal representative said that the measure aims to encourage more usage of the

Here’s how HEX’s Richard Heart beat SEC fraud charges 2025-04-23 at 17:20 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood Richard Heart, the controversial founder of HEX, is claiming total victory over the US SEC after years of court battles. On April 21, the SEC said that it would not amend and refile its fraud case against the

Nvidia rolls out NeMo microservices to help AI help you help AI 2025-04-23 at 16:59 By Dan Robinson Smarter agents, continuous updates, and the eternal struggle to prove ROI As Nvidia releases its NeMo microservices to embed AI agents into enterprise workflows, research has found that almost half of businesses are seeing only minor gains

Iran-Linked Hackers Target Israel with MURKYTOUR Malware via Fake Job Campaign 2025-04-23 at 16:59 By The Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC2428 has been observed delivering a backdoor known as MURKYTOUR as part of a job-themed social engineering campaign aimed at Israel in October 2024. Google-owned Mandiant described UNC2428 as a threat actor aligned with