2025

Ukraine floats 23% tax on some crypto income, exemptions for stablecoins 2025-04-10 at 06:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Ukraine’s financial regulator has proposed taxing certain crypto transactions as personal income at a rate of up to 23% but excluding crypto-to-crypto transactions and stablecoins.   Crypto transactions would be taxed at 18% with a 5% military […]

Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons 2025-04-10 at 05:01 By Tobias Mann Sure, we’re doing FP8 versus a supercomputer’s FP64. What of it? Cloud Next  Google’s seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216 chips.… This article

Trump kills clearances for infosec’s SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs 2025-04-10 at 04:39 By Simon Sharwood Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress his own debunked theories The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered a criminal investigation into alleged censorship conducted by the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, plus revocation of any security

21Shares files for spot Dogecoin ETF in the US 2025-04-10 at 04:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Digital asset manager 21Shares has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a spot Dogecoin exchange-traded fund, following similar filings from rivals Bitwise and Grayscale. The 21Shares Dogecoin ETF would seek to track the price

US Senate confirms Paul Atkins to lead SEC under Trump 2025-04-10 at 04:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The US Senate has confirmed US President Donald Trump pick Paul Atkins as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission in a 51-45 vote, with lawmakers largely voting along party lines. His appointment comes several months after

Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager 2025-04-10 at 03:39 By Thomas Claburn Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights Apple has agreed to settle charges of labor rights violations filed with America’s employment watchdog by whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Magnificent Seven adds whopping $1.5T in value as Trump pauses sweeping tariffs 2025-04-10 at 02:54 By Reuters The gains did not erase the $3.4 trillion in value the companies have collectively shed since their peak in late 2024. But the reprieve gave investors a reason to buy back these expensive stocks. This article is an excerpt from

Report: Nvidia paid $1m for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown 2025-04-10 at 02:54 By Tobias Mann Best after-dinner mint ever Nvidia may have been served a particularly delicious digestif after dropping a million bucks for dinner at President Trump’s Florida home Mar-a-Lago: A reprieve on restrictions of its AI chips to

Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board 2025-04-10 at 02:54 By Brandon Vigliarolo From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos Clearview AI has booted founder and former CEO Hoan Ton-That from its board, just weeks after he stepped down as president.… This article

April’s Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login 2025-04-10 at 00:57 By Iain Thomson Can’t Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it? Those keen to get their Microsoft PCs patched up as soon as possible have been getting an unpleasant shock when they try to get in using Windows Hello.…

Wyden blocks Trump’s CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for ‘actively hiding info’ about telecom insecurity 2025-04-10 at 00:57 By Jessica Lyons It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Uncle Sam’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been “actively hiding information” about American telecommunications networks’ weak security for

Whistleblower claims Meta helped China develop advanced AI to ‘outcompete American companies’: bombshell testimony 2025-04-09 at 23:41 By Thomas Barrabi Meta actively helped China in the race to develop artificial intelligence as part of its failed effort to cozy up to Beijing, former executive turned whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams said during a bombshell Senate hearing on

Sensitive financial files feared stolen from US bank watchdog 2025-04-09 at 23:41 By Iain Thomson OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago A US banking regulator fears sensitive financial oversight data was stolen from its IT systems in what’s been described as “a major information security

US Dollar Index (DXY) falls close to level that was followed by 500%+ Bitcoin price rallies 2025-04-09 at 23:15 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman The Dollar Index (DXY) dipping below 100 has historically aligned with Bitcoin (BTC) bull runs, delivering gains of over 500% during the last two instances. Now, as trade tensions escalate and

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US. Yeah, right 2025-04-09 at 23:15 By Brandon Vigliarolo You can claim to have the workforce, resources to make iGear in the States, but that doesn’t make it true World War Fee  President Trump’s trade war with China kicked into gear this week. The upshot is Americans

XRP price gains 13% after Trump 90-day tariff pause and XXRP ETF launch 2025-04-09 at 22:14 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale XRP (XRP) price is up 13% on the day, trading above the $2 level after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on all reciprocal tariffs, except for China, which saw an additional 125%

US wrestling star Ric Flair launches tokenized Telegram sticker pack 2025-04-09 at 22:14 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Legendary professional wrestler Ric Flair launched a tokenized sticker collection on Telegram on April 9, becoming the latest celebrity to launch a tokenized social project. Spokespeople for the project told Cointelegraph they are considering rewarding early sticker

EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad levy hike – China excepted 2025-04-09 at 21:35 By Jude Karabus So this is what it’s like living in reality TV World War Fee  The EU voted Wednesday to introduce 25 percent import tariffs on American goods, with the first duties being collected from

Bitcoin ‘significantly de-risked here’ as nearly 80% of cyclical price correction is done — Analyst 2025-04-09 at 21:24 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Bitcoin’s (BTC) futures market reflects a possible price cooldown after the cryptocurrency’s multiple weeks of correction. Data from CryptoQuant indicated that the BTC-USDT futures leverage ratio with respect to open interest (OI)

US President Donald Trump issues 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs 2025-04-09 at 21:24 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill United States President Donald Trump has issued a 90-day pause for “reciprocal tariffs,” and lowered the tariff rate to 10% on countries that do not retaliate with counter-tariffs. However, the President also said he would increase the