April 2025

IBM’s z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance 2025-04-08 at 12:34 By Dan Robinson Who wouldn’t want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can’t solve for Trump tariffs) IBM’s latest mainframe builds on the platform’s traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support

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CISA Adds CrushFTP Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Following Confirmed Active Exploitation 2025-04-08 at 12:34 By A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting CrushFTP has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after reports emerged of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability is a

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Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash 2025-04-08 at 11:39 By Lindsay Clark Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit Despite ambitions to position itself as a science and tech superpower, the UK has cut the budget for the government body responsible for university

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The gold standard is back — Stablecoins need to rethink what ‘backing’ really means 2025-04-08 at 11:22 By Cointelegraph by William Campbell Opinion by: William Campbell, advisory lead at USDKG Stablecoins were heralded as a breakthrough in the cryptocurrency space as a way to marry the lightning-fast, borderless nature of digital assets with the stability

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UK data watchdog seeks fresh blood as more complaints lie unanswered for up to a year 2025-04-08 at 10:56 By Connor Jones Multiple red-rated performance metrics blamed on inability to answer rising numbers of data protection worries The UK’s data protection watchdog is recruiting more warm bodies to tackle its red-rated backlog of unresolved complaints.…

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China’s tariff response may mean more capital flight to crypto: Hayes 2025-04-08 at 10:18 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young China’s response to America’s sweeping trade tariffs could result in capital flight to Bitcoin and crypto, according to BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes. “If not the Fed [Federal Reserve], then the PBOC [People’s Bank of China] will

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Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying 2025-04-08 at 09:48 By Simon Sharwood Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe’s anti-fraud org isn’t probing European authorities last week charged eight people with offenses including corruption and money laundering linked to the European Parliament – and perhaps also to

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Nigerian court postpones Binance tax evasion case to end of April: Report 2025-04-08 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan A Nigerian court has reportedly delayed the country’s tax evasion case against Binance until April 30 to give time for Nigeria’s tax authority to respond to a request from the crypto exchange. Reuters reported on

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US to get its first XRP-based ETF, launching on NYSE Arca 2025-04-08 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Asset manager Teucrium Investment Advisors is set to launch the first XRP-based exchange-traded fund in the US markets, a leveraged XRP (ETF) on the NYSE Arca. The Teucrium 2x Long Daily XRP ETF will seek to

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Wall Street is suffering a stinky meltdown while Fartcoin is up 30% 2025-04-08 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young While crypto and stock markets are deep in the red this week, one memecoin is defying the trend and surging at the time of writing.  Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) has surged a whopping 30% over the past

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Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital gets SEC nod for Nasdaq listing 2025-04-08 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Artificial intelligence and crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital has been given the nod from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange.  The company, which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange

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Google Releases Android Update to Patch Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities 2025-04-08 at 07:54 By Google has shipped patches for 62 vulnerabilities, two of which it said have been exploited in the wild. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-53150 (CVSS score: 7.8) – An out-of-bounds flaw in the USB sub-component of Kernel that

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Samsung trumps USA’s tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed 2025-04-08 at 07:20 By Simon Sharwood May also have fixed AI memory biz if better-than-expected revenue guidance is anything to go by World War Fee  Samsung Electronics doesn’t fear the impact of the USA’s new tariffs regime on its displays business because

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