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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…

DoubleZero protocol announces validator funding round 2025-04-02 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The DoubleZero Protocol, a blockchain infrastructure network aiming to multiply speeds and efficiency for distributed networks, announced a validator funding round to sell token-purchase agreements for its native token to prospective validators. Applications for the funding round will be accepted April…

Bitcoin price on verge of breaking 10-week downtrend — Is $90K BTC next? 2025-04-02 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Bitcoin’s (BTC) price is off to a swift start in Q2, rallying by 5.53% to an intraday high of $87,333 on April 2. Currently, Bitcoin is emerging from a ten-week downtrend that began on…

Crimelords at Hunters International told lackeys ransomware too ‘risky’ 2025-04-02 at 22:20 By Connor Jones Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become “unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky,” and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an…

HBAR Foundation joins OnlyFans founder startup to bid on TikTok 2025-04-02 at 22:00 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Zoop, the social app created by OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely, and the HBAR Foundation have reportedly submitted a bid to purchase the video-sharing app TikTok in the United States. According to an April 2 Reuters report, the…

Pump.fun launches lending platform to finance memecoin buys 2025-04-02 at 22:00 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Pump.fun is launching a lending platform to enable users to buy memecoins and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with borrowed cryptocurrency, the Solana-based memecoin launchpad said.  Dubbed Pump.Fi, the onchain lending protocol provides “immediate… financing for [any] digital asset,” Pump.fun said…

OnlyFans founder submits late-stage bid to buy TikTok, partnering with crypto foundation 2025-04-02 at 21:06 By Reuters The intent to bid was sent this week to the White House by Zoop, billionaire Stokely’s new company, and the Hbar Foundation, which manages the Hedera cryptocurrency network’s treasury. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News…

Raspberry Pi not affected by Trump tariffs yet while China-tied rivals feel the heat 2025-04-02 at 21:06 By Dan Robinson CEO hails ‘transformative year’ as IPO puts ‘puter maker on the big board Raspberry Pi hasn’t felt the sting of US tariffs yet, and having its boards built outside China might give it an edge…

Lawmaker alleges Trump wants to replace US dollar with his stablecoin 2025-04-02 at 20:49 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright California Representative Maxine Waters, ranking member of the US House Financial Services Committee, used her opening statement at a markup hearing to criticize President Donald Trump’s business and ethical entanglements with the crypto industry, including the…

FDUSD stablecoin depegs following claims made by Justin Sun 2025-04-02 at 20:49 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The First Digital US-dollar pegged stablecoin (FDUSD) depegged on April 2 following claims of insolvency from Tron network founder Justin Sun, who said that the issuer of the tokenized fiat equivalent, First Digital, is insolvent. First Digital responded…

Price analysis 4/2: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, TON, LINK, LEO 2025-04-02 at 20:49 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin (BTC) bulls have pushed the price above the $87,000 level even as US trade tariffs are slated to kick in on April 2. Bitcoin may remain volatile in the near term, but analysts…

Cybersecurity is the second highest business concern for SMBs 2025-04-02 at 20:48 By Research by VikingCloud revealed that a successful cyberattack would force nearly one in five small- and medium-sized businesses to close their doors. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Amazon makes shocking last-minute bid to buy TikTok: report 2025-04-02 at 19:50 By Thomas Barrabi Amazon has reportedly made a surprise last-minute play to buy TikTok from its Chinese parent ByteDance ahead of a critical Saturday deadline. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta signs multi-year deal with UFC to be first ‘official fan technology partner’ 2025-04-02 at 19:01 By Reuters UFC boss Dana White was named to board of the Facebook parent earlier this year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source React…

SMBC, Ava Labs, Fireblocks sign MoU for stablecoin framework in Japan 2025-04-02 at 19:01 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC), a Japanese banking and financial services conglomerate, along with business systems firm TIS Inc, Ava Labs — the developer of the Avalanche network — and digital asset infrastructure company Fireblocks, have…

Bitcoin breaks $86K as US tariff ‘Liberation Day’ risks 11% BTC price dip 2025-04-02 at 19:01 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) reached new April highs at the April 2 Wall Street open as markets braced for US “Liberation Day.” BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin teases breakout in US tariff countdown Data from…

Tesla deliveries plunge ‘disastrous’ 13% as Elon Musk faces public outcry over DOGE 2025-04-02 at 18:19 By Thomas Barrabi Tesla deliveries plummeted by a whopping 13% during the first quarter as its CEO Elon Musk faced public backlash over his work with President Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency. This article is an excerpt…

Musk’s government-efficiency blockchain: What could go wrong and what could go right? 2025-04-02 at 18:05 By Cointelegraph by James Strudwick Opinion by: James Strudwick, executive director, Starknet Foundation The outlook surrounding the use of new technologies has shifted in Washington. Tesla CEO and presidential adviser Elon Musk’s proposition to incorporate blockchain technology into the US…

Grayscale launches two new Bitcoin outcome-oriented products 2025-04-02 at 18:05 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Major cryptocurrency asset manager Grayscale Investments announced two new Bitcoin outcome-oriented exchange-traded funds (ETFs). According to an April 2 announcement, the new products are the Grayscale Bitcoin Covered Call ETF (BTCC) and the Grayscale Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BPI). According…

Oracle’s masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat 2025-04-02 at 18:05 By Connor Jones Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning Opinion  Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all…

Data doesn’t lie, but Microsoft’s new Power BI prices might make you cry 2025-04-02 at 17:56 By Richard Speed Hike is no joke and users are not laughing Microsoft’s Power BI price rises have arrived, with some tiers increasing by up to 40 percent.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source…

Google Fixed Cloud Run Vulnerability Allowing Unauthorized Image Access via IAM Misuse 2025-04-02 at 17:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Run that could have allowed a malicious actor to access container images and even inject malicious code. “The vulnerability could have allowed…

Avalanche stablecoins up 70% to $2.5B, AVAX demand lacks DeFi deployment 2025-04-02 at 16:11 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Avalanche saw a significant surge in stablecoin supply over the past year, but the onchain deployment of this capital points to passive investor behavior, which may be limiting demand for the network’s utility token. The stablecoin…

How many US dollars does XRP transfer per day? 2025-04-02 at 16:11 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola XRP (XRP), the native cryptocurrency of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), has been touted by proponents as a high-speed, low-cost solution for cross-border payments. But just how much value flows through the network on a daily basis? Let’s examine.…