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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…

Commercial space station outfit plans two Orbital Data Center nodes by the end of 2025 2025-04-09 at 19:06 By Richard Speed Yep. It’s Axiom’s datacenters in SPAAAAACE Axiom Space says it is planning to launch a pair of Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes to low Earth orbit by the end of 2025.… This article is…

Recent version of Neptune RAT is spreading, stealing credentials 2025-04-09 at 19:06 By Research has discovered a recent version of Neptune RAT, which is spreading and stealing credentials.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Lovable AI Found Most Vulnerable to VibeScamming — Enabling Anyone to Build Live Scam Pages 2025-04-09 at 18:19 By Lovable, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform that allows for creating full-stack web applications using text-based prompts, has been found to be the most susceptible to jailbreak attacks, allowing novice and aspiring cybercrooks to set…

DeFi security and compliance must be improved to attract institutions 2025-04-09 at 18:07 By Cointelegraph by Sergej Kunz Opinion by: Sergej Kunz, co-founder of 1inch Institutional players have been closely watching decentralized finance’s growth. Creating secure and compliant DeFi platforms is the only solution to build trust and attract more institutions. Clear waters attract big…

Bitcoin price at risk of new 5-month low near $71K if tariff war and stock market tumult continues 2025-04-09 at 18:07 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) price made a swift move to $78,300 at the April 9 Wall Street open as “herd-like” price action in equities markets continued to spook risk-asset traders. BTC/USD…

Binance to launch second reward-bearing margin asset LDUSDt 2025-04-09 at 18:07 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Binance is launching a new “reward-bearing margin asset” LDUSDt, which the company says is not a stablecoin. According to an April 9 announcement, LDUSDt can be obtained by swapping Tether’s USDt deposited in the firm’s Simple Earn yield product.…

Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid tariff uncertainty 2025-04-09 at 17:47 By Dan Robinson Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed? Microsoft has called a halt to construction of three datacenter campuses in central Ohio, in a sign the tech giant is having to reappraise its…

Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty, more collide 2025-04-09 at 17:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo And coming up next, Trump’s World War Fee The hint of optimism to be found in February’s tech jobs numbers? Yeah, it’s pretty much gone, according to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US…

UK officials insist ‘murder prediction tool’ algorithms purely abstract 2025-04-09 at 16:46 By Connor Jones Even though policing department spent 2 years on study predicting which criminals will become killers The UK’s justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers.… This article is an excerpt…

Bitcoin’s safe-haven appeal grows during trade war uncertainty 2025-04-09 at 16:00 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The global trade war may be a silver lining for Bitcoin’s growing recognition as a safe-haven asset next to gold, thanks to its liquidity and accessibility advantages compared to precious metals. Financial markets have been rattled since US President…

New York bill proposes blockchain study for election record security 2025-04-09 at 16:00 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Blockchain may soon earn itself a role in New York State’s voting processes and procedures. New York Assemblymember Clyde Vanel introduced Bill A07716 on April 8, directing the state Board of Elections to evaluate how blockchain could…