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Meta’s AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you 2025-04-10 at 10:32 By Mark Pesce Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts In the last twelve months generative AI has transformed from a helpful and cheeky tool into something more worrying.… This…

AkiraBot Targets 420,000 Sites with OpenAI-Generated Spam, Bypassing CAPTCHA Protections 2025-04-10 at 10:30 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform called AkiraBot that’s used to spam website chats, comment sections, and contact forms to promote dubious search engine optimization (SEO) services such as Akira and ServicewrapGO. “AkiraBot has targeted…

Crypto stocks see big gains alongside US stock market rebound 2025-04-10 at 10:01 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Crypto stocks have surged as part of a broader recovery in the US stock market on April 9 following President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on sweeping global tariffs. The Wednesday, April 9 trading day closed with Michael…

OpenSea urges SEC to exclude NFT marketplaces from regulator’s remit 2025-04-10 at 10:01 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea has urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to exclude NFT marketplaces from regulation under federal securities laws. The SEC needs to “clearly state that NFT marketplaces like OpenSea do not qualify as…

The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned 2025-04-10 at 09:19 By Iain Thomson TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here – an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast Oracle’s letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire – while insisting Oracle Cloud…

81.6% of XRP supply is in profit, but traders in Korea are turning bearish — Here is why 2025-04-10 at 09:01 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly XRP has struggled to find sustained bullish momentum since reaching its cycle peak at $3.40 on Jan. 16, 2025. XRP (XRP) dropped as much as 46% over the past…

Bitwise doubles down on $200K Bitcoin price prediction amid trade tension 2025-04-10 at 09:01 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Institutional crypto investment firm Bitwise has doubled down on its big Bitcoin price prediction for this year despite escalating global trade tensions. “In December, Bitwise predicted that Bitcoin would end the year at $200,000. I still…

3 reasons why Ethereum price keeps falling 2025-04-10 at 09:01 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Ether’s (ETH) most recent sell-off saw it lose the crucial $1,500 support level, and a number of technical indicators suggest that ETH may witness a deeper correction before embarking on a sustained recovery. Data shows Ether’s price dropped below its…

Security leaders respond to the dismissal of NSA director 2025-04-10 at 08:20 By Security leaders share their thoughts on the NSA director dismissal, providing insights as to why it may have occurred. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Magic Eden acquires crypto trading app Slingshot to move beyond NFTs 2025-04-10 at 08:07 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Solana non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden has acquired crypto trading app Slingshot as part of a strategy to expand beyond NFTs as other marketplaces fold amid a prolonged market downturn. The move expands Magic Eden’s…

SafeMoon boss cites DOJ’s nixed crypto unit in latest bid to toss suit 2025-04-10 at 08:07 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Braden John Karony, the CEO of crypto firm SafeMoon, has cited the US Department of Justice’s directive to no longer pursue some crypto charges in an effort to get the case against him and…

Fear of tariffs made the PC market great again in Q1 as vendors emptied factories to dodge price hikes 2025-04-10 at 07:56 By Simon Sharwood Expected sales surge sparked by Windows 10 support ending could yet be trumped, analysts suggest The first quarter of 2025 saw shipments of new PCs surge, as vendors and buyers…

Recognizing and Relying on Assets: Security in Higher Education 2025-04-10 at 07:16 By Ensuring campus safety is a complex effort, and security leaders can’t carry it all on their shoulders. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Level Up Your Security Career 2025-04-10 at 07:16 By Knowing where jobs are leveled within an organization is a critical career data point for security professionals. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Bitcoin inflows to Binance see ‘strong acceleration’ ahead of March CPI print 2025-04-10 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Bitcoin inflows into crypto exchange Binance have surged over the past two weeks amid uncertainty over US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the upcoming US Consumer Price Index (CPI) results, says an analyst. However, another…

Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in 2025-04-10 at 06:18 By Lindsay Clark Customers aren’t sure, economy isn’t great, tech looks cute, though Cloud Next  This week Google joined a throng of tech vendors pushing the concept of “agentic AI” on an unsuspecting and perhaps unreceptive collection of enterprise users. Questions remain about…

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…

Price analysis 4/9: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, LEO, LINK, TON 2025-04-09 at 21:04 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Risky assets remain volatile as trade war tension between the United States and China keeps investors on the edge. A minor positive is that Bitcoin (BTC) has avoided a sharp fall and is trading…

No crypto project has registered with the SEC and ‘lived to tell the tale’ — House committee hearing 2025-04-09 at 20:02 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi United States securities laws are not flexible enough to account for digital assets, as evidenced by the parade of crypto-native companies that have tried and failed to get into…

Bitcoin has ‘fully decoupled’ despite tariff turmoil, says Adam Back 2025-04-09 at 20:02 By Cointelegraph by Marco Castrovilli As markets reel from geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty, Bitcoin has shown relative resilience during events like Trump’s recent tariff bombshells, according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back. While in the short term, Bitcoin (BTC) may move in…

Chinese Apple supplier suggests shifting more production to US to dodge brunt of Trump tariffs: report 2025-04-09 at 19:06 By Thomas Barrabi A key Apple supplier has suggested it could shift some production to the US and other countries in order to dodge the brunt of President Trump’s 104% tariffs on China. This article is…