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Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? 2025-04-03 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young There’s a crazy theory on social media that US President Donald Trump’s newly announced reciprocal tariff plan — which hits all countries with a minimum 10% tariff — could have been designed by an artificial intelligence chatbot. Only

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Bitcoiner speculates ‘massive’ bot spam briefly took down Bitcoin mailing list 2025-04-03 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea One of Bitcoin’s key communication tools used to discuss potential protocol changes was knocked out for several hours starting on April 2, with one moderator speculating it may have been a targeted attack assisted by bots. 

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OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue VMware more customers 2025-04-03 at 08:34 By Simon Sharwood The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named “Epoxy” and thinks it’s an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative.… This article

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Hackers are selling counterfeit phones with crypto-stealing malware 2025-04-03 at 08:15 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says it has uncovered thousands of counterfeit Android smartphones sold online with preinstalled malware designed to steal crypto and other sensitive data.  The Android devices are sold at reduced prices, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs said in

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US House committee passes stablecoin-regulating STABLE Act 2025-04-03 at 08:14 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The US House Financial Services Committee has passed a Republican-backed stablecoin framework bill, which will now head to the House floor for a full vote. The Committee passed the Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability for a Better Ledger Economy, or STABLE

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Legacy Stripe API Exploited to Validate Stolen Payment Cards in Web Skimmer Campaign 2025-04-03 at 08:14 By Threat hunters are warning of a sophisticated web skimmer campaign that leverages a legacy application programming interface (API) from payment processor Stripe to validate stolen payment information prior to exfiltration. “This tactic ensures that only valid card data

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Europol Dismantles Kidflix With 72,000 CSAM Videos Seized in Major Operation 2025-04-03 at 08:14 By In one of the largest coordinated law enforcement operations, authorities have dismantled Kidflix, a streaming platform that offered child sexual abuse material (CSAM). “A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March

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The threat of phishing attacks and law enforcement’s role (Part 1) 2025-04-03 at 07:28 By Phishing remains one of the most pervasive and effective tools in a cybercriminal’s arsenal. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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DDoS attacks now a dominant means of waging political cyber-warfare 2025-04-03 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are outpacing many traditional cyber threats and are no longer just a tool but a “dominant geopolitical weapon,” according to network security firm Netscout. Global DDoS activity increased by 12.7% in the second

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink seeks patients globally to try its brain chips 2025-04-03 at 06:00 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Elon Musk’s computer-chip brain implant company Neuralink is seeking patients all around the world to trial its device that allows one’s thoughts to control a computer. Neuralink is looking for people with quadriplegia — those who

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OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission 2025-04-03 at 06:00 By Tobias Mann GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show Tech textbook tycoon Tim O’Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house’s copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o

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‘National emergency’ as Trump’s tariffs dent crypto prices 2025-04-03 at 05:22 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Crypto markets dipped after US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency and sweeping tariffs on all countries as part of his latest salvo in the ongoing trade war.  The Trump administration has hit all countries with a

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Wikipedia’s overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden 2025-04-03 at 04:20 By Thomas Claburn Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Former New York governor advised OKX over $505M federal probe: Report 2025-04-03 at 03:06 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Cryptocurrency exchange OKX reportedly hired former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to advise it over the federal probe that resulted in the firm pleading guilty to several violations and agreeing to pay $505 million in fines

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