2025

Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards 2025-06-18 at 21:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it’s not like the military needs new tech, right? A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, […]

Texas Instruments to spend $60B to boost US chip manufacturing under Trump push 2025-06-18 at 21:32 By Reuters Texas Instruments said the $60 billion investment will create 60,000 jobs and called it the “largest investment in foundational semiconductor manufacturing in US history.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

Price predictions 6/18: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, HYPE, SUI, BCH 2025-06-18 at 21:03 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin sell pressure ramps up as traders anticipate today’s FOMC results. Could BTC price fall to $100,000? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Healthcare company onboards Trump crypto adviser, buys $20M BTC 2025-06-18 at 21:03 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The initial purchase of more than 187 BTC was part of a larger strategy to “substantially increase its Bitcoin holdings,” according to Prenetics. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

ZisK spins off from Polygon with ‘core minds behind Polygon zkEVM’ 2025-06-18 at 21:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Polygon co-founder Jordi Baylini continues to serve Polygon in an advisory capacity. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Intel set to lay off around 10,000 workers — despite getting $2.2B in CHIPS Act funds under Biden 2025-06-18 at 20:34 By Ariel Zilber The anticipated reductions are scheduled to begin in weeks and will reportedly affect Intel Foundry, the company’s manufacturing division. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews

Sandeep Nailwal’s Polygon takeover is his chance to ‘go all in’ 2025-06-18 at 20:12 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Co-founder and new CEO Sandeep Nailwal opens up about dissolving Polygon’s board, closing zkEVM and why claiming sole leadership is the network’s best shot at relevance. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

New Malware Campaign Uses Cloudflare Tunnels to Deliver RATs via Phishing Chains 2025-06-18 at 20:11 By A new campaign is making use of Cloudflare Tunnel subdomains to host malicious payloads and deliver them via malicious attachments embedded in phishing emails. The ongoing campaign has been codenamed SERPENTINE#CLOUD by Securonix. It leverages “the Cloudflare Tunnel infrastructure

KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements 2025-06-18 at 19:52 By Liam Proven The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

The empire strikes out: Institutionalists failed to kill the stablecoin bill 2025-06-18 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Zachary Kelman Despite a relentless campaign from institutional powerbrokers like Senator Elizabeth Warren, the US Senate advanced the GENIUS Act, marking a watershed moment for stablecoin regulation and exposing the limits of establishment resistance. This article is an

Bitcoin eyes $105K pre-FOMC as Trump reveals Iran asked for dialogue 2025-06-18 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Trump offers light relief for Bitcoin price action while calling Fed Chair Jerome Powell a “stupid person” with interest-rate cut hopes absent. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

European consumers are mostly saying ‘non’ to trading in their old phones 2025-06-18 at 19:06 By Dan Robinson Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips Less than a third of European consumers trade in or sell their old phones, limiting the supply

How Critical Infrastructure Is Becoming the First AI Trust Battleground 2025-06-18 at 19:06 By Security magazine talks with Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO of Operant, about the importance of infrastructure-level protection.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

1,500+ Minecraft Players Infected by Java Malware Masquerading as Game Mods on GitHub 2025-06-18 at 19:05 By A new multi-stage malware campaign is targeting Minecraft users with a Java-based malware that employs a distribution-as-service (DaaS) offering called Stargazers Ghost Network. “The campaigns resulted in a multi-stage attack chain targeting Minecraft users specifically,” Check Point researchers

Circle’s USDC to become eligible collateral for US futures trading 2025-06-18 at 18:00 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz USDC, a US dollar-pegged stablecoin by Circle and Coinbase, is set to become a collateral for US futures trading as part of a joint effort by Coinbase Derivatives and Nodal Clear. This article is an excerpt from

Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill amid concerns over systemic risk 2025-06-18 at 18:00 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood The US Senate voted to pass the GENIUS Act, a bill regulating stablecoins, but observers believe lawmakers may have ignored stability concerns in Treasury markets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea’s extinct after terms updated 2025-06-18 at 18:00 By Richard Speed Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models