August 2025

McDonald’s not lovin’ it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security 2025-08-20 at 11:11 By Iain Thomson Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald’s staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights […]

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Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ plans have stalled: Report 2025-08-20 at 10:06 By Cointelegraph by Tarang Khaitan Elon Musk will back Vice President JD Vance in the 2028 presidential elections should he choose to run, The Wall Street Journal reported. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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ZK-proofs could protect privacy and still combat bad actors, VC argues 2025-08-20 at 10:06 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte A16z Crypto’s comments come weeks after Roman Storm was found guilty of charges linked to his mixing service Tornado Cash, which masks the origin and destination of crypto. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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Retail went from bullish to ‘ultra bearish’ as Bitcoin dipped to $113K 2025-08-20 at 10:06 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Bitcoin retraced to a low of $112,600 as retail panic selling resulted in the most bearish social sentiment since June, but analysts see a buying opportunity ahead. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o 2025-08-20 at 09:33 By Thomas Claburn Researchers use LLM in ‘AI Space Cortex’ to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration Businesses may be struggling to find meaningful ways to use artificial intelligence software, but space scientists at least have a few ideas about how to deploy AI models.… This article is

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Harvard economist admits he was wrong about Bitcoin crashing to $100 2025-08-20 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, who predicted Bitcoin would likely hit $100 before $100,000, admitted he was wrong about three things. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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Trump-tied crypto company ALT5 Sigma denies SEC probe rumors 2025-08-20 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea ALT5 Sigma denied a report suggesting one of its executives was being investigated by the SEC for insider trading tied to the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks 2025-08-20 at 08:31 By A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, has been identified as the administrator of the service, the U.S.

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Strategy hits 4-month low as Saylor changes tack on MSTR issuance 2025-08-20 at 08:03 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Saylor’s Strategy stock price taps its lowest point since April amid controversy over equity guidance changes and a broader downturn among Bitcoin treasury companies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React

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KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot 2025-08-20 at 08:03 By Simon Sharwood Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.… This article is

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WazirX users approve restructuring plan again after court rebuff 2025-08-20 at 07:11 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte WazirX has been trying to get a restructuring plan through the Singapore High Court to start returning funds to users impacted by the $234 million hack in 2024. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons 2025-08-20 at 06:03 By Simon Sharwood Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 processors.…

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Top Fed official: Staff should be allowed to hold a little crypto 2025-08-20 at 05:04 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman, says the central bank should roll back its restrictions that ban staff from buying crypto. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React

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