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System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy 2025-04-03 at 13:31 By Dan Robinson Tariff moves threaten supply chain stability The cost of buying servers for business will inevitably rise as a result of US President Donald Trump’s trade policies, at least in the short term, as uncertainty grips the…

Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare 2025-04-03 at 12:35 By Chris Mellor Recovery’s never been harder in today’s tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment  Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it’s not floods or fires causing most outages anymore – ransomware…

Alabama, Minnesota lawmakers join US states pushing for Bitcoin reserves 2025-04-03 at 12:06 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Lawmakers in the US states of Minnesota and Alabama filed companion bills to identical existing bills that if passed into law, would allow each state to buy Bitcoin. The Minnesota Bitcoin Act, or HF 2946, was introduced…

UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend 2025-04-03 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and…

Google Patches Quick Share Vulnerability Enabling Silent File Transfers Without Consent 2025-04-03 at 11:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new vulnerability impacting Google’s Quick Share data transfer utility for Windows that could be exploited to achieve a denial-of-service (DoS) or send arbitrary files to a target’s device without their approval. The flaw,…

Bitcoin gets $71K target as tariffs deal rare US business outlook slump 2025-04-03 at 11:05 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) faces conditions similar to the 2022 bear market bottom as US business sees “very high risk” to come. In his latest analysis, Charles Edwards, the founder of quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund…

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia 2025-04-03 at 10:48 By Lindsay Clark Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind Opinion  Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout…

Triada Malware Preloaded on Counterfeit Android Phones Infects 2,600+ Devices 2025-04-03 at 10:48 By Counterfeit versions of popular smartphone models that are sold at reduced prices have been found to be preloaded with a modified version of an Android malware called Triada. “More than 2,600 users in different countries have encountered the new version of…

Treasure DAO announces huge pivot in hopes of extending runway to February 2025-04-03 at 10:07 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Decentralized video game ecosystem Treasure DAO is restructuring as “a matter of survival” to extend its financial runway to at least February 2026. Treasure DAO’s chief contributor John Patten says in an April 2 video…

Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via compromised supplier 2025-04-03 at 09:47 By Iain Thomson Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Britain’s Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant’s data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:

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…

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…

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…

‘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…

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…

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…

EY updates privacy L2 as nixed Tornado Cash sanctions ease fears 2025-04-03 at 03:06 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Big Four accounting firm EY, formerly Ernst & Young, has changed its enterprise-focused Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Nightfall to a zero-knowledge rollup design as it says corporate clients are more comfortable with privacy solutions with easing US…

Americans set to pay more on nearly all imports: Trump activates broad tariffs 2025-04-03 at 02:19 By Simon Sharwood Tech slugged with higher duties, base 10% hike, semiconductors exempt for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a ten percent tariff on nearly all types of imports into America, and higher levies on goods from…

Trump imposes 10% tariff on all countries, reciprocal levies on trading partners 2025-04-03 at 02:04 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing reciprocal tariffs on trading partners and a 10% baseline tariff on all imports from all countries. The reciprocal levies on will be approximately half of…

US lawmakers press SEC for info about Trump family-backed crypto firm 2025-04-03 at 02:04 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Two Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate and House of Representatives have called on acting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mark Uyeda to preserve information regarding World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm backed by President…

Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling 2025-04-03 at 01:21 By Thomas Claburn Double-oh-sh… The name’s not Bond. It’s O’Brien – Keith O’Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source…

Curve Finance clocks $35B trading volume in Q1 2025 2025-04-03 at 01:00 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Curve Finance, a decentralized lending protocol and exchange, notched record-breaking trading volumes of nearly $35 billion in the first quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for the protocol told Cointelegraph.  Trading volumes increased more than 13% from the first…

Fidelity introduces retirement accounts with minimal-fee crypto investing 2025-04-03 at 01:00 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino Fidelity, a financial services company with $5.9 trillion in assets under management, has introduced new retirement accounts that will allow Americans to invest in crypto nearly fee-free. The three accounts — a tax-deferred traditional IRA and two Roth IRAs…

Ethereum price may have bottomed, but pro traders show little interest in buying ETH 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Ether (ETH) price has risen 6.4% from its March 30 $1,768 low but the altcoin has struggled to regain the $2,000 level. Some traders believe that the downturn is partially connected to the…

Bitcoin rally to $88.5K obliterates bears as spot volumes soar — Will a tariff war stop the party? 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Cointelegraph by Big Smokey Bitcoin price caught an unexpected bid by rallying to a session high at $88,500, but will the price gains be capped at a multimonth overhead resistance that is aligned…

West Virginia’s BTC reserve bill is ‘freedom’ from a CBDC — State Senator 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino West Virginia’s Bitcoin (BTC) strategic reserve bill would give the state more sovereignty from the federal government and freedom from a potential central bank digital currency (CBDC), State Senator Chris Rose told Cointelegraph in…

Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Tobias Mann Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta lobbying Trump to settle FTC’s antitrust case: report 2025-04-02 at 23:22 By Thomas Barrabi Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is aggressively lobbying the Trump administration to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against the company before it goes to trial later this month, according to a report Wednesday. This article is an excerpt…