May 2025

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’ 2025-05-22 at 07:04 By Simon Sharwood Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed Rapid growth in Wi-Fi use means the 6 GHZ band’s carrying capacity may soon be exhausted, according to […]

Bitcoin continues rally to surpass $110K for the first time 2025-05-22 at 06:03 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Bitcoin has topped $110,000 for the first time in a recent rally that has seen it gain 3% over the past day to break through past price highs from earlier this year. Bitcoin (BTC) hit a new

Pompliano-led crypto-focused SPAC gains 7% on Nasdaq after upsized IPO 2025-05-22 at 05:04 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Crypto influencer Anthony Pompliano’s fintech-focused blank-check company, ProCap Acquisition Corp (PCAPU), rose 7% on its debut Nasdaq listing after a last-minute upsizing of its initial public offering. ProCap had boosted its IPO from $200 million to $220

Judge rejects arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights in lawsuit over teen’s death 2025-05-22 at 04:21 By Associated Press The judge’s order will allow the wrongful death lawsuit to proceed, in what legal experts say is among the latest constitutional tests of artificial intelligence. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

Australian regulator asks High Court to allow appeal in Block Earner case 2025-05-22 at 04:00 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Australia’s financial regulator will seek the High Court’s permission to appeal a lower court’s ruling favoring fintech firm Block Earner, which found the company’s crypto-linked fixed-yield earning service is not a financial product. The Australian

Google’s AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations 2025-05-22 at 02:25 By Thomas Claburn The agentic era may not be all that it’s cracked up to be google io  At Google I/O this week, the Chocolate Factory argued for its AI supremacy, making the case with benchmark-topping machine learning models, developer tools, and a few

VanEck to launch Avalanche ecosystem fund 2025-05-22 at 02:02 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell VanEck plans to launch a private digital assets fund in June targeting tokenized Web3 projects built on the Avalanche blockchain network, the asset manager said in a statement shared with Cointelegraph. The VanEck PurposeBuilt Fund, available only to accredited investors, aims

US lawmaker reintroduces bill amid pushback on Trump’s crypto ties 2025-05-22 at 02:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright A Democratic representative in the US Congress will support a blockchain bill at a time when many left-leaning lawmakers are blocking crypto-related pieces of legislation due to concerns with President Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest. In

Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark after Trump DOJ snooping scandal, 2025-05-22 at 01:48 By Jessica Lyons AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US failed to set up systems to notify lawmakers when government snoops came calling for their phone records – a

US teen to plead guilty to extortion attack against PowerSchool 2025-05-22 at 00:43 By Iain Thomson The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed A 19-year-old student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the systems of two companies as part of an extortion scheme, and The Register

Bitcoin hits new highs in the absence of ‘unhealthy’ leverage use — Will the rally continue? 2025-05-22 at 00:03 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Key takeaways: Spot Bitcoin ETF inflows and low leverage suggest the BTC rally has room to grow. US Federal Reserve liquidity and weak bond sales support a Bitcoin push beyond $110,000.

Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics 2025-05-21 at 23:47 By Lindsay Clark LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper Scientists have developed a machine learning model that can outperform official agencies at predicting tropical cyclone tracks, and do it faster and cheaper than traditional physics-based systems.…

Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous 2025-05-21 at 23:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Chocolate Factory comes for Meta’s Ray-Bans with Warby Parker pact Google I/O  Google and eyeglass maker Warby Parker have partnered to create a more stylish successor to Google Glass, which cofounder Sergey Brin quipped will actually be

Famed iPhone designer and ex-Apple exec Jony Ive joins OpenAI in $6.5B deal for AI devices startup 2025-05-21 at 23:17 By Thomas Barrabi Sam Altman’s OpenAI has acquired famed ex-Apple executive Jony Ive’s hardware firm in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion as it looks to make its own AI-powered devices, the company

Coinbase breach hit almost 70k users — Attorneys 2025-05-21 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill A recent filing with Maine’s attorney general sheds new light on Coinbase’s data breach, claiming that nearly 70,000 users were impacted and that the incident went unnoticed for nearly six months. According to the filing submitted by legal firm

Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot 2025-05-21 at 22:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions A single person with a serious AI habit may chew through enough electricity each day to keep a microwave running for more than

Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers 2025-05-21 at 22:37 By Jessica Lyons Their connection? Aiding Ukraine, duh Russian cyberspies have targeted “dozens” of Western and NATO-country logistics providers, tech companies, and government orgs providing transport and foreign assistance to Ukraine, according to a joint government announcement issued Wednesday.… This