April 2025

Security Theater: Vanity Metrics Keep You Busy – and Exposed 2025-04-07 at 14:17 By After more than 25 years of mitigating risks, ensuring compliance, and building robust security programs for Fortune 500 companies, I’ve learned that looking busy isn’t the same as being secure.  It’s an easy trap for busy cybersecurity leaders to fall into. […]

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China car giant BYD poses major threat to Tesla and Detroit’s Big 3 — and tariffs could make it worse 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Thomas Barrabi “As the words came out of Trump’s mouth, they were probably drinking champagne in BYD headquarters,” Ives told The Post. “It accelerates BYD’s success.” This article is an excerpt

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Hong Kong introduces crypto staking rules, reaffirms Web3 commitment 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has introduced new guidelines for crypto exchanges offering staking services. In an April 7 announcement, the SFC announced new guidelines for crypto exchanges offering staking services and locally authorized funds exposed

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Whale makes $14M Ether emergency deposit to avoid $340M liquidation 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai An unidentified cryptocurrency whale injected millions of dollars in emergency capital to avoid a potential liquidation of more than $300 million in Ether as markets slumped amid renewed macroeconomic pressure. The whale is reportedly close to liquidation

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How to use Render Network for decentralized GPU rendering 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Bradley Peak Key takeaways Render Network connects GPU owners with creators, allowing users to rent idle graphics power for AI training, 3D rendering and crypto-related projects. The RNDR token powers the ecosystem, enabling fast, transparent and decentralized transactions between creators

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Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Paul Kunert With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don’t have a product to show CISPE Microsoft has weeks to produce a multi-tenant hybrid cloud for service providers in Europe – a failure to do this

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UK stats body snoozes legacy tech overhaul as Treasury tightens purse strings 2025-04-07 at 12:27 By Lindsay Clark ONS acknowledges it might be a costly decision in the long run The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) is slowing migration away from legacy systems in response to budget limitations set by HM Treasury.… This article

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Black Monday 2.0? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-04-07 at 12:02 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) is turning back the clock this week as tariff mayhem drags BTC price action toward 2021. Bitcoin is giving up bull market support lines left and right as a new “death cross” completes on

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PoisonSeed Exploits CRM Accounts to Launch Cryptocurrency Seed Phrase Poisoning Attacks 2025-04-07 at 12:02 By A malicious campaign dubbed PoisonSeed is leveraging compromised credentials associated with customer relationship management (CRM) tools and bulk email providers to send spam messages containing cryptocurrency seed phrases in an attempt to drain victims’ digital wallets. “Recipients of the bulk

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The future of American dynamism depends on cryptography 2025-04-07 at 11:06 By Cointelegraph by Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh Opinion by: Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh, co-founder and CEO of Lagrange Trade wars and proxy wars are underway in the current geopolitical power realignment, but the next phase won’t be fought with tariffs or drones. It will be decided by who

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Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers 2025-04-07 at 10:30 By Thomas Claburn Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers Mozilla plans to make life easier for developers of Firefox browser Add-ons, aka extensions, by reducing the burden of presenting custom consent dialogs to those installing extensions.… This article

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Meta debuts its first ‘mixture of experts’ models from the Llama 4 herd 2025-04-07 at 09:48 By Simon Sharwood Says they’re done right as they don’t lean so far left Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech.… This article is an excerpt

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Trader stakes $0.05 of SOL for 3,000 years: Here’s what it’ll be worth in 5138 2025-04-07 at 09:21 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte A crypto user has gone very long on Solana, staking a very small portion of the token for the next 3,000 years, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence. The unknown user

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Ethereum whale gets liquidated $106M on Sky amid crypto bloodbath 2025-04-07 at 09:21 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young An Ether investor who had a large position on decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Sky has been liquidated to the tune of more than $100 million as the price of Ether crashed.  The Ether (ETH) whale lost

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