August 2025

Bitcoin traders target $137K as US CPI print raises Fed rate cut odds to 94% 2025-08-13 at 02:01 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Bitcoin bulls lift their price target to $137,000 as odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut increase. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto crime unit with $250M in seizures expands with Binance 2025-08-13 at 02:01 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs expand their crime-fighting unit with Binance as the first T3+ partner, as industry data shows crypto hacks are getting faster and harder to stop. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

Ethereum dev detained in Turkey donates to Roman Storm’s defense fund 2025-08-13 at 01:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Federico Carrone, an Ethereum core developer, pledged $500,000 to the Tornado Cash co-founder’s legal fund after being detained in Turkey over alleged links to a privacy protocol. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

Grayscale launches two trusts linked to Sui ecosystem protocols 2025-08-13 at 01:02 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino DeepBook and Walrus’s “Winter Walrus” are ranked outside of the top 10 Sui ecosystem protocols, according to DefiLlama. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

US prosecutors double down on 10-year sentence for HashFlare co-founders 2025-08-13 at 00:06 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The two men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in February and later received a letter directing them to “self-deport” from the United States. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bitcoin holds $118K while ETH, BNB, LINK, UNI aim to extend the altcoin rally 2025-08-13 at 00:06 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin could pick up momentum above $120,000, with ETH, BNB, LINK, and UNI following suit. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Pantera’s bear market Bitcoin call nails 2025 price, silencing cycle skeptics 2025-08-13 at 00:06 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Pantera’s Dan Morehead nailed his prediction for Bitcoin’s Aug. 11, 2025 price, made in November 2022 as BTC was nearing its bottom. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion 2025-08-12 at 23:35 By Thomas Claburn Could the most popular browser change hands? AI search biz Perplexity has offered to pay about twice as much as it is worth to acquire Chrome from Google.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Ether futures open interest hits all-time high as ETH price tops $4.5K — Will it last? 2025-08-12 at 23:01 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman ETH open interest soared to a record high as Ether price rallied through $4,500. Is the rally sustainable? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

YouTube to test AI-powered age verification system for US users 2025-08-12 at 22:53 By Associated Press The tests initially will only affect a sliver of YouTube’s audience in the U.S., but it will likely become more pervasive if the system works as well at guessing viewers’ ages as it does in other parts of the

Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data 2025-08-12 at 22:53 By Jessica Lyons And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring Global staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise’s network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the extortionists claimed that they pilfered “all

Ex-Binance dealmaker joins Hilbert Group to launch tokenized funds platform 2025-08-12 at 22:26 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Former Binance executive Ryan Horn joins Hilbert Group to advise on Syntetika, an onchain platform for tokenized funds, as global finance races to bring traditional assets to blockchain. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

Roman Storm’s potential retrial pushed back following court extension 2025-08-12 at 22:26 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright After a New York jury found the Tornado Cash co-founder guilty of one of three charges he had been facing, US authorities still have the option of filing for a retrial. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

You’ve got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by . . . deleting old emails 2025-08-12 at 22:17 By Tobias Mann Keep calm and clear out that inbox. Also maybe lay off the GenAI With many parts of England grappling with a water shortage, the UK’s National Drought Group (NDG), which includes both government

Researchers Spot XZ Utils Backdoor in Dozens of Docker Hub Images, Fueling Supply Chain Risks 2025-08-12 at 22:05 By New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the incident. More troubling is the fact that other images have been

Beijing doesn’t want Nvidia’s H20s anywhere near sensitive government workloads 2025-08-12 at 21:46 By Tobias Mann Don’t need to give Uncle Sam any more reason to think kill switches are a good idea Nvidia may have the Trump administration’s blessing to resume shipments of its H20 AI accelerators to China, but in Beijing, government officials

IBM, Google claim quantum computers are almost here after major breakthroughs: ‘It doesn’t feel like a dream anymore’ 2025-08-12 at 21:22 By Ariel Zilber IBM laid out a detailed plan for a large-scale machine in June, declaring it was on track to build one by the end of the decade. This article is an excerpt

Trump’s crypto ventures yield $2.4B since 2022: Report 2025-08-12 at 21:22 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino The $2.4 billion represents roughly 43.5% of the known money Donald Trump has gained from “personal enrichment” during his political career. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

US lawmakers introduce bill to update ancient export control IT systems 2025-08-12 at 21:22 By Brandon Vigliarolo Last year’s attempt failed, but increased concern over the state of the BIS might make the second time the charm The US government agency in charge of keeping advanced technology out of the hands of America’s enemies desperately

GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic 2025-08-12 at 20:52 By Brandon Vigliarolo Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing Anthropic has become the latest company to benefit from the US government’s frenetic AI adoption pace, inking a deal to