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RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory 2025-04-01 at 13:03 By Liam Proven Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source…

Asda’s tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount 2025-04-01 at 12:35 By Lindsay Clark Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK’s third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after…

Binance ends Tether USDT trading in Europe to comply with MiCA rules 2025-04-01 at 12:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Binance has discontinued spot trading pairs with Tether’s USDt in the European Economic Area (EEA) to comply with the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has delisted spot trading pairs with several non-MiCA-compliant…

The future of digital self-governance: AI agents in crypto 2025-04-01 at 12:06 By Cointelegraph by Tomer Warschauer Nuni Opinion by: Tomer Warschauer Nuni, chief marketing officer of Kima Network No one should be surprised that the crypto space is actively discussing the new wave of enthusiasm around AI and its limitless uses. According to proponents,…

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison 2025-04-01 at 12:06 By Iain Thomson Not exactly Snowden levels of skill A student at Britain’s top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View…

Bitcoin sellers ‘dry up’ as weekly exchange inflows near 2-year low 2025-04-01 at 11:01 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) faces a new “consolidation zone” as exchange inflows tag multiyear lows, new analysis says. In an April 1 post on X, Axel Adler Jr., a contributor to onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant, declared that Bitcoin…

Arm reckons it’ll own 50% of the datacenter by year’s end 2025-04-01 at 10:49 By Dan Robinson Optimistic much? Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.… This article is an…

OpenAI to release its first ‘open’ language model since GPT-2 in 2019 2025-04-01 at 10:03 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte OpenAI is set to launch an “open” version of its language model this year, allowing developers to run the model on their own hardware. In an update posted to X on March 31, OpenAI CEO…

Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it 2025-04-01 at 09:29 By Thomas Claburn Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View…

Advanced security strategies in high-threat environments 2025-04-01 at 09:29 By In an increasingly dangerous era of global instability with evolving threats, crisis planning and mitigation is crucial.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

SpaceX flight bankrolled by crypto investor launches first manned polar orbit 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sent a crew of four private astronauts on the first manned space flight to orbit the Earth’s poles, in a mission bankrolled and led by a wealthy crypto investor. Chun Wang, the…

Gutter Cat Gang token sale marred by ‘technical issues,’ reportedly low interest 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Non-fungible token (NFT) project Gutter Cat Gang (GCG) saw a rocky token launch of its GANG token on Apechain on March 31, attributed to a “technical issue” by a third party, though others pointed to…

Bitcoin price gearing up for next leg of ‘acceleration phase’ — Fidelity research 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Big Smokey A recent Fidelity Digital Assets report questioned whether Bitcoin price had already seen its cyclical “blow off top” or if BTC (BTC) is on the cusp of another “acceleration phase.”  According to Fidelity analyst…

Apple Fined €150 Million by French Regulator Over Discriminatory ATT Consent Practices 2025-04-01 at 09:02 By Apple has been hit with a fine of €150 million ($162 million) by France’s competition watchdog over the implementation of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework. The Autorité de la concurrence said it’s imposing a financial penalty against…

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ 2025-04-01 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood How about making sure Windows crashes less, and stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that…

Vanuatu passes long-awaited crypto laws that won’t be ‘light touch’ 2025-04-01 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Vanuatu has passed laws to regulate digital assets and provide a licensing regime for crypto companies wanting to operate in the Pacific island nation, which a government regulatory consultant has called “very stringent.”  The local parliament passed…

zkLend hacker claims losing stolen ETH to Tornado Cash phishing site 2025-04-01 at 07:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte The hacker behind the $9.6 million exploit of the decentralized money-lending protocol zkLend in February claims they’ve just fallen victim to a phishing website impersonating Tornado Cash, resulting in the loss of a significant portion of…

SIR.trading begs hacker to return $255K or ‘no chance for us to survive’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The founder of the recently hacked decentralized finance protocol SIR.trading has made an emotional plea to the attacker, asking them to return around 70% of the stolen customer funds otherwise, the protocol will not…

Coinbase CEO calls for change in stablecoin laws to enable ‘onchain interest’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Cointelegraph by Jody McDonald Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is calling for legislative changes in the US to allow stablecoin holders to earn “onchain interest” on their holdings. In a March 31 post on X, Armstrong argued that crypto companies…

Intel’s latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: ‘You deserve better’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Tobias Mann OK, AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 … Intel’s newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn…

Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket 2025-04-01 at 05:32 By Jessica Lyons ‘They went silent and secured the images,’ Jeremiah Fowler tells El Reg Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet –…

Privacy Pools launch on Ethereum, with Vitalik demoing the feature 2025-04-01 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea A new semi-permissionless privacy tool, Privacy Pools, has launched on Ethereum, allowing users to transact privately while proving their funds aren’t linked to illicit activities. The privacy tool, launched by Ethereum builders 0xbow.io on March 31, earned…

CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw 2025-04-01 at 04:21 By Iain Thomson Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US…

Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes 2025-04-01 at 02:32 By Iain Thomson Indiana Uni rm -rf online profile while agents haul boxes of evidence A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.… This article…

North Korean crypto attacks rising in sophistication, actors — Paradigm 2025-04-01 at 02:01 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino North Korean cyberwarfare attacks on the cryptocurrency industry are growing in sophistication and in the number of groups involved in such criminal activity, crypto firm Paradigm warns in report titled “Demystifying the North Korean Threat.” North Korea-originated…

Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence vanishes 2025-04-01 at 00:49 By Thomas Claburn 1990s incident response in 2025 Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the…

Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs raises $600M in first funding round for AI drug business 2025-04-01 at 00:14 By Taylor Herzlich The London-based business – which launched in 2021 – will use the funds to further its research, expand its team and continue on its mission to create new drugs and medicines using AI. This article is…

Crypto PAC-supported candidates make a final push to Florida voters 2025-04-01 at 00:14 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Two Republican candidates supported by at least a combined $1.5 million in media spending from a cryptocurrency-backed political action committee (PAC) are making final pleas to voters turning out for special elections in Florida congressional districts. On…

4 key Bitcoin metrics suggest $80K BTC price is a discount 2025-04-01 at 00:14 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped from $87,241 to $81,331 between March 28 and March 31, erasing gains from the previous 17 days. The 6.8% correction liquidated $230 million in bullish BTC futures positions and largely followed the…

VC Roundup: 8-figure funding deals suggest crypto bull market far from over 2025-04-01 at 00:14 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Venture capital funding continued to pour into the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry in March, even as market commentators sensationalized the end of the bull market amid Bitcoin’s 30% retracement.  VC flows are considered a vital…

Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it’s leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO 2025-03-31 at 23:28 By Tobias Mann Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE’s G42 planned stake AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it…

APX Lending gains exemptive relief from Canadian Securities Administration 2025-03-31 at 23:09 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill APX Lending, a crypto-backed loan company, has gained exemptive relief from the Canadian Securities Administration (CSA) to offer crypto-backed loans without requiring traditional dealer registration or prospectus filings. “Over the last 2 years, APX developed a […] regulatory…

Bitcoin whale accumulation trend mirrors 2020-era bullish activity after BTC price bounces off $81K 2025-03-31 at 23:09 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Bitcoin (BTC) price dipped below its ascending channel pattern over the weekend, dropping to $81,222 on March 31. The top cryptocurrency is set to register its worst quarterly return since 2018, but a…

‘Dire consequences’ if Musk accesses SEC — US lawmaker 2025-03-31 at 23:09 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The top Democrat on the US House Financial Services Committee issued a warning after reports suggested that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “government efficiency” team would be given access to data and systems at the Securities and Exchange Commission…

Price analysis 3/31: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, TON 2025-03-31 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin (BTC) fell 4.29% last week, but the bulls started a recovery by pushing the price back above $83,500 on March 31. However, traders are likely to remain on edge until April 2, when…

Bitcoin could reduce dominance of US dollar — BlackRock 2025-03-31 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino The US dollar could lose its status as the world’s reserve currency to Bitcoin or other digital assets if the United States does not get its debt under control, according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. Fink wrote in…

XRP funding rate flips negative — Will smart traders flip long or short? 2025-03-31 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman On March 19, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced that the company had been cleared by the US Securities and Exchange Commission regarding an alleged $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering. Following the news, XRP (XRP)…

Bitcoin’s ‘digital gold’ claim challenged as traders move into bonds and gold hits new highs 2025-03-31 at 21:02 By Cointelegraph by Marie Poteriaieva April 2 is shaping up to be a pivotal moment in global trade policy. US President Donald Trump has dubbed it “Liberation Day,” in reference to when new tariffs—exceeding 20%—will hit imports…

Russian Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-26633 via MSC EvilTwin to Deploy SilentPrism and DarkWisp 2025-03-31 at 20:35 By The threat actors behind the zero-day exploitation of a recently-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows have been found to deliver two new backdoors called SilentPrism and DarkWisp. The activity has been attributed to a suspected Russian hacking group called…

‘Contrary to popular belief,’ regulation isn’t slowing tokenization — Prometheum CEO 2025-03-31 at 20:00 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) is growing by the day, but contrary to belief, the biggest hurdle to broader adoption isn’t regulation, but a lack of dedicated secondary markets for buying and selling tokenized…

Bitcoin trader issues ‘overbought’ warning as BTC price eyes $84K 2025-03-31 at 20:00 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) ticked higher at the March 31 Wall Street open as traders stayed risk-averse on the short-term BTC price outlook. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin RSI teases bearish continuation Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and…