2025

Fed mulls ‘skinny’ payment accounts to open rails for fintech, crypto firms 2025-10-21 at 19:12 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Industry watchers welcomed the idea of “skinny” master accounts as another sign of the end of crypto’s banking troubles, in what insiders describe as “Operation Chokepoint 2.0.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News […]

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists 2025-10-21 at 19:05 By Carly Page Amazon’s hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos When Amazon’s cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn’t just take down some of the world’s most popular apps –

Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no 2025-10-21 at 18:56 By Tim Anderson 24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI’s impact on developer tools and programming language trends – including the claim that PHP and Ruby

Andrew Cuomo’s crypto Hail Mary unlikely to give an edge over Mamdani 2025-10-21 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood As the New York mayor’s race draws to a culmination, Andrew Cuomo has developed a crypto and AI strategy for the city. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams 2025-10-21 at 18:03 By Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an

California just drew the line between crypto and cash: Here’s why it matters 2025-10-21 at 18:00 By Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya California’s SB 822 ends forced crypto sell-offs and requires holders to send in-kind transfers of unclaimed crypto to the state, promoting stronger consumer rights. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough 2025-10-21 at 17:01 By Liam Proven Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft’s file system for penguin-powered PCs Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.… This article is

PolarEdge Targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, Synology Routers in Expanding Botnet Campaign 2025-10-21 at 16:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge. PolarEdge was first documented by Sekoia in February 2025, attributing it to a campaign targeting routers from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology with the goal

How to use Grok 4 for smarter crypto research before you invest 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Cointelegraph by Liza Savenko Turn social hype into smart signals with Grok 4: scan sentiment, summarize fundamentals and confirm onchain data before investing. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ethereum fails again above $4K as traders grow frustrated with shakeouts 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Ether ran into resistance at $4,000 as the absence of new buyers and weak spot Ethereum flows threatened ETH price dropping to $3,100 next. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto, Fintech push back against banks’ war on open banking 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation and fintech allies urged the CFPB to finalize an open banking rule ensuring consumers, not banks, control their data. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Feds flag active exploitation of patched Windows SMB vuln 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Carly Page CISA adds high-severity flaw to KEV list, urges swift updating Uncle Sam’s cyber wardens have warned that a high-severity flaw in Microsoft’s Windows SMB client is now being actively exploited – months after it was patched.… This article is an

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Tim Anderson DevOps guru and ex-Googler say vibes beat reading diffs but there are risks “Accept All. Always. Don’t read the diffs anymore.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

A shot in the dark: Can malware vaccines stop ransomware’s rampage? 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Mary-Ann Russon Security pros explore whether infection-spoofing code can immunize Windows systems against attack Feature  What’s better, prevention or cure? For a long time the global cybersecurity industry has operated by reacting to attacks and computer viruses. But given that