May 2025

Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos 2025-05-15 at 10:34 By Thomas Claburn AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too Google’s AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its “evolutionary coding agent” powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms.… This article

NFT founder stole millions from Bitcoin project, investors allege 2025-05-15 at 10:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Several investors in a non-fungible token (NFT) project, Hashling NFT, have accused its founder of misappropriating millions of dollars in profits from the project and a closely tied Bitcoin mining operation. According to the May 14 court filing

Sonic Labs wins judgment for Multichain Foundation to wind up 2025-05-15 at 10:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte A Singapore High Court has ruled in favor of Sonic Labs’ motion to force the Multichain Foundation to wind up in an effort to recover funds stolen during a 2023 hack. In the May 9 judgment in

Here’s what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer 2025-05-15 at 09:47 By Jessica Lyons Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limits DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to

New Chrome Vulnerability Enables Cross-Origin Data Leak via Loader Referrer Policy 2025-05-15 at 09:47 By Google on Wednesday released updates to address four security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one for which it said there exists an exploit in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-4664 (CVSS score: 4.3), has been characterized

Stablecoin bill won’t target Trump as Senate aims to pass it next week 2025-05-15 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The US Senate could pass a key bipartisan stablecoin bill as soon as next week after removing language targeting President Donald Trump and his family’s sprawling crypto interests. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis said onstage

Telegram shuts the ‘largest darknet marketplace to have ever existed’ 2025-05-15 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young A major Chinese darknet marketplace suspected of facilitating crypto scams and cybercrime has been shut down by the Telegram messaging service, upon which it operated. The internet’s largest illicit marketplace, Haowang Guarantee, formerly Huione Guarantee, said it

Chainalysis CEO offers a clue into the recent spate of Paris crypto attacks 2025-05-15 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Some criminal organizations are yet to receive the memo — crypto is traceable — and could explain the recent string of crypto-related kidnappings, says Chainalysis CEO Jonathan Levin.  Law enforcement has been increasingly successful

Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they’re ready to rock 2025-05-15 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator – aka the

Agentic AI Is Everywhere — So Are the Security Risks 2025-05-15 at 08:19 By The hype of AI agents is real, but so are the risks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Coinbase CEO looking at more acquisitions after $2.9B Deribit buy 2025-05-15 at 07:01 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says his firm will continue to look for merger and acquisition opportunities after acquiring crypto derivatives platform Deribit. “We are always looking at M&A opportunities,” said Armstrong on Bloomberg Television on May 14.

Europol helps dismantle $23M ‘mafia crypto bank’ 2025-05-15 at 06:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea European law enforcement in January arrested 17 suspects of a “mafia crypto bank” who are said to have laundered over 21 million euros ($23.5 million) in crypto for criminal entities in China and the Middle East. The money laundering services

Dems seek suspicious activity reports linked to Trump crypto ventures 2025-05-15 at 06:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte US Democrat lawmakers have sent a letter to the US Treasury demanding access to suspicious activity reports (SARs) on several Trump-backed crypto projects as part of the latest probe into the president’s digital ventures.  Penned by representatives

Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training 2025-05-15 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models for years, in