2025

Base blames faulty sequencer for 33-minute outage, fixes made 2025-08-06 at 04:12 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Base blamed a 33-minute outage on Aug. 5 on an unprepared sequencer and said it has fixed the issue to ensure any chosen sequencer will be ready to process transactions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News […]

Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training 2025-08-06 at 03:54 By Tobias Mann Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead Broadcom on Monday unveiled a new switch which could allow AI model developers to train models on GPUs spread across multiple datacenters up to 100 kilometers

SEC’s guidance on liquid staking tokens a win for DeFi, institutions 2025-08-06 at 03:01 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino Institutions may now have a clearer footing to build products around liquid staking tokens and unlock new market segments, according to industry executives. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution 2025-08-06 at 02:34 By Jessica Lyons More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model

US SEC commissioner slams agency statement on liquid staking: ‘Muddies the waters’ 2025-08-06 at 02:04 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw warns that the SEC’s statement offers little clarity for liquid staking providers. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Coinbase launches embedded wallets tool as self-custody, DeFi gain momentum 2025-08-06 at 02:04 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The developer tool offers customizable wallets, USDC rewards and deeper integration with Coinbase’s Base app, aligning with recent pro-crypto legislation. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Warren Buffett misses $850M in Bitcoin gains by sticking to cash in 2025 2025-08-06 at 02:04 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Bitcoin has outperformed Berkshire and its top holdings in 2025, highlighting the cost of ignoring BTC as a hedge or growth asset. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account 2025-08-06 at 01:36 By Avram Piltch They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we’ll show you how to get around it hands on  Redmond really – and I mean really – wants you to log into Windows 11 with a Microsoft

Michigan pension fund deepens Bitcoin exposure with $11M stake in ARK ETF 2025-08-06 at 01:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The State of Michigan Retirement System has nearly tripled its Bitcoin ETF holdings, signaling rising institutional confidence in digital assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ethereum proposes unified fee market to simplify transaction costs 2025-08-06 at 01:03 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The move follows significant gas fee reductions after the Dencun upgrade, and comes amid intensifying competition across blockchains. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

OpenAI makes good on its name, launches first open weights language models since GPT-2 2025-08-06 at 01:03 By Tobias Mann GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license OpenAI released its first open weights language models since GPT-2 on Tuesday with the debut of GPT-OSS.… This article is an

Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds 2025-08-06 at 00:35 By Iain Thomson The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to

Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad 2025-08-05 at 23:52 By Thomas Claburn AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network made technical errors

Brazil’s lower house to hold hearing on creating national Bitcoin reserve 2025-08-05 at 23:14 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino If a bill to create a BTC reserves passes in Brazil’s House of Representatives, it will require Senate approval before being signed into law or vetoed by the country’s president. This article is an excerpt from

James Howells pivots from landfill dig to tokenization in lost Bitcoin saga 2025-08-05 at 23:14 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar After failing to retrieve a hard drive with 8,000 BTC, James Howells is turning the lost coins into the basis of a new DeFi project. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools 2025-08-05 at 22:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys Chromebook demand surged in the second quarter of 2025, Canalys reported Tuesday, but that doesn’t necessarily mean permanent growth is on the horizon. … This article is an excerpt from

Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack 2025-08-05 at 21:38 By Jessica Lyons Psst, wanna steal someone’s biometrics? black hat  Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users’ devices, steal passwords, and