2025

Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down 2025-05-27 at 15:39 By Connor Jones Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool Software biz MathWorks is cleaning up a ransomware attack more than a week after it took down MATLAB, its flagship product used

Russian Hackers Breach 20+ NGOs Using Evilginx Phishing via Fake Microsoft Entra Pages 2025-05-27 at 15:17 By Microsoft has shed light on a previously undocumented cluster of threat activity originating from a Russia-affiliated threat actor dubbed Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear) that it said is attributed to “worldwide cloud abuse.” Active since at least April

AI Agents and the Non‑Human Identity Crisis: How to Deploy AI More Securely at Scale 2025-05-27 at 15:17 By Artificial intelligence is driving a massive shift in enterprise productivity, from GitHub Copilot’s code completions to chatbots that mine internal knowledge bases for instant answers. Each new agent must authenticate to other services, quietly swelling the population of non‑human identities

StarkWare launches mobile-friendly zero-knowledge prover 2025-05-27 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Blockchain company StarkWare has unveiled zero-knowledge (ZK) prover STARK Two (S-two), enabling enhanced privacy and verification on everyday devices like phones, laptops and browsers.  The company said the new ZK prover allows users to generate complex cryptographic proofs from the client side.

Taurus, Parafin partnership to provide crypto infrastructure to institutions 2025-05-27 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Fintech companies Taurus and Parafin have partnered to deliver blockchain infrastructure to financial institutions in Europe and Latin America — a move aimed at accelerating the adoption of crypto custody and settlement services across both regions. As part

USDC issuer Circle moves forward with initial public offering on NYSE 2025-05-27 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Circle, the issuer of USDC, the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has launched an initial public offering (IPO) of 24 million shares of its Class A common stock, the company said on May 27. The firm

UK tax collector puts half a billion on table for call center services 2025-05-27 at 14:32 By Lindsay Clark Taxpayers on hold for 798 years might wish for a better service The UK’s tax collector has confirmed plans to contract out call center services with an associated price tag of £500 million ($677 million).… This

Bitcoin shows signs of ‘easing momentum’ but traders still expect $150K 2025-05-27 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s RSI has dropped 15% and is now below the overbought threshold. Bitcoin futures flip bearish with a 43% decline in perpetual CVD. Analysts predict Bitcoin could reach $150,000 as long as a key

Luxembourg flags crypto companies as high risk for money laundering 2025-05-27 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Luxembourg classified virtual asset service providers (VASPs) as high-risk entities for money laundering in its 2025 National Risk Assessment (NRA), highlighting concerns over the crypto industry’s exposure to financial crime. According to the report, the inherent risk

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin ‘premium’ nears $600k per BTC 2025-05-27 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Japanese investment firm Metaplanet’s Bitcoin premium is almost $600,000 per coin, as Asia’s leading Bitcoin treasury firm pushes forward with its plan to purchase 21,000 BTC by 2026. Metaplanet’s stockholders are paying a more than fivefold premium on Bitcoin’s (BTC)

Employees Searching Payroll Portals on Google Tricked Into Sending Paychecks to Hackers 2025-05-27 at 13:47 By Threat hunters have exposed a novel campaign that makes use of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques to target employee mobile devices and facilitate payroll fraud. The activity, first detected by ReliaQuest in May 2025 targeting an unnamed customer

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves 2025-05-27 at 13:34 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse Opinion  I use AI a lot, but not to write stories. I use AI for search. When it comes to search, AI, especially Perplexity, is simply better than Google.… This article

Bitget enters real-world asset race with yield-bearing BGUSD stable asset 2025-05-27 at 13:06 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Crypto exchange Bitget has entered the expanding market for crypto investment products with the launch of BGUSD, a yield-bearing stable asset backed by tokenized real-world assets. The company announced that BGUSD offers an annual yield of 4%,

Blockchain.com expands in Africa as local crypto rules take shape 2025-05-27 at 13:06 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Blockchain.com is stepping up its presence in Africa, targeting markets where governments are beginning to implement crypto regulations. The UK-based exchange plans to open a physical office during the second quarter in Nigeria — its “fastest-growing market”

The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity 2025-05-27 at 12:37 By Liam Proven Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way round Comment  Linux distro wars are nothing new. “Advocacy” (a euphemism for angry argument) about hardware, OSes, programming languages and editors goes back as long as different computers have existed. Computers

AI’s enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking 2025-05-27 at 11:47 By Rupert Goodwins Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We’ll need someone even scarier Opinion  How much harm does AI cause the environment? As a report from the MIT Technology Review just confirmed, nobody knows, and almost