July 2025

Venmo, PayPal users can now send money to the US government to help pay down $36.7T national debt 2025-07-25 at 19:45 By Ariel Zilber The US Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the nation’s ballooning $36.7 trillion debt. This article is an excerpt […]

FreeBSD 15 installer to offer minimal KDE desktop 2025-07-25 at 19:29 By Liam Proven The FreeBSD Laptop project continues – and plans to offer a very visible change FreeBSD 15 is coming, maybe at the end of this year – and along with other improvements, it may finally offer the option of installing with a

Meta joins Google in ragequitting EU political ads over onerous regulations 2025-07-25 at 18:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Zuckercorp blames legal uncertainty under upcoming TTPA law Meta has followed in Google’s footsteps in deciding that pending EU political advertising regulations are so onerous to comply with that they’re not even going to bother.… This article is

U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm 2025-07-25 at 18:17 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to

Patchwork Targets Turkish Defense Firms with Spear-Phishing Using Malicious LNK Files 2025-07-25 at 18:17 By The threat actor known as Patchwork has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors with the goal of gathering strategic intelligence. “The campaign employs a five-stage execution chain delivered via malicious LNK files disguised as conference

The centralization crisis threatens data privacy 2025-07-25 at 18:06 By Cointelegraph by Angie Darrow Reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure and the IRS’s proposed “mega API” expose vulnerabilities in data privacy and accountability that decentralized technologies can address. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Smart contract devs think AI code will make crypto safer despite vibe coding fears 2025-07-25 at 18:06 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Despite concerns from earlier research, smart contract developers and auditors told Cointelegraph that AI-assisted coding is improving crypto security. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Freelance dev shop Toptal caught serving malware after GitHub account break-in 2025-07-25 at 17:33 By Iain Thomson Malicious code lurking in over 5,000 downloads, says Socket researcher Developer freelancing platform Toptal has been inadvertently spreading malicious code after attackers broke into its systems and began distributing malware through developer accounts.… This article is an excerpt

Intel abandons chip plants in Germany and Poland, confirms more layoffs 2025-07-25 at 17:19 By Dan Robinson CEO Lip-Bu Tan says strategy shift will focus on customer needs, efficiency, and cutting costs Ailing chip giant Intel is ditching its manufacturing sites in Germany and Poland and signaling further job cuts ahead as its new leader

Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Russian Aerospace Sector Using EAGLET Backdoor 2025-07-25 at 17:19 By Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon, has been assigned to a threat cluster tracked as UNG0901 (short for

Sharplink hits back at BitMine’s $2B Ether buy with BlackRock hire 2025-07-25 at 17:15 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz SharpLink has hired a 20-year BlackRock veteran just one day after its biggest Ether-buying rival, BitMine, disclosed a massive ETH purchase. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Firedancer will speed up Solana, but it won’t reach full potential 2025-07-25 at 16:49 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Solana’s Firedancer validator client promises huge speed boosts but faces network limits as developer Douglas Colkitt tests its full potential on Fogo. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Debian isn’t waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything 2025-07-25 at 16:45 By Gareth Halfacree We say everything… just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away Venerable Linux distribution Debian is side-stepping the Y2K38 bug – also known as the Unix Epochalypse – by switching to

ChatGPT offered step-by-step instructions for self-harm, devil worship and ritual bloodletting, disturbing report reveals 2025-07-25 at 16:41 By Ariel Zilber Prompts began with questions about ancient deities and quickly spiraled into detailed exchanges about self-mutilation, satanic rites and even murder. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York

Senator Lummis says US is ‘waking up’ on crypto after historic legislative week 2025-07-25 at 16:30 By Cointelegraph by Savannah Fortis Following the passage of key digital asset bills, Senator Lummis says “help is on the way” for crypto innovation in the US and urges developers not to lose faith. This article is an excerpt

Microsoft admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty 2025-07-25 at 16:00 By Paul Kunert Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin Microsoft says it “cannot guarantee” data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider European Union