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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg admits buying ‘Instagram’ because it was ‘better’ during grilling at landmark FTC trial 2025-04-15 at 21:32 By Thomas Barrabi “Building a new app is hard,” Zuckerberg said. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source React to this headline:

China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks 2025-04-15 at 21:32 By Connor Jones Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act China’s state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025…

Red flag? Mantra’s TVL jumped 500% as OM price collapsed 2025-04-15 at 21:04 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola The total-value-locked (TVL) on Mantra’s RWA blockchain protocol reached a yearly high despite OM’s 90% price crash. Mantra TVL surges 500% following OM’s crash As of April 15, Mantra’s TVL (in OM terms) jumped to 4.21 million…

Bitcoin price recovery could be capped at $90K — Here’s why 2025-04-15 at 21:04 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly After consecutive drawdowns of 17.39% and 2.3% in February and March, Bitcoin’s (BTC) Q2 is shaping up nicely, with a return of 3.77% in April. While fresh yearly lows were formed at $74,500, BTC is currently…

Bitdeer turns to self-mining Bitcoin, US operations amid tariff tumult — Report 2025-04-15 at 21:04 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Bitcoin miner Bitdeer is reportedly expanding its self-mining operations and investing in United States-based production as looming trade wars rock global supply chains and cryptocurrency markets.  Bitdeer has begun prioritizing mining Bitcoin (BTC) itself in…

All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK’d judge 2025-04-15 at 21:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk’s Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive…

Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank 2025-04-15 at 21:04 By Richard Speed Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right? Microsoft has warned administrators that less than half a year remains until support ends for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.…

Insurance Firm Lemonade Says API Glitch Exposed Some Driver’s License Numbers 2025-04-15 at 19:55 By Ionut Arghire Lemonade says the Incident is not material and that its operations were not compromised, nor was its customer data targeted. The post Insurance Firm Lemonade Says API Glitch Exposed Some Driver’s License Numbers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This…

Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way 2025-04-15 at 19:20 By Lindsay Clark Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger Databricks, the machine learning and data lake biz valued at around $62 billion, is contributing to the open source Iceberg table format preferred by rivals in…

Laboratory Services Cooperative experienced a cybersecurity incident 2025-04-15 at 19:20 By Laboratory Services Cooperative announced it experienced a cybersecurity incident, possibly compromising patient and employee data.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Crypto podcasters should always assume their audience knows nothing 2025-04-15 at 19:01 By Cointelegraph by Blake Cassidy Opinion by: Blake Cassidy, CEO of Bamboo Crypto podcasts have been newcomers’ go-to source of information, helping bring crypto into the mainstream. Podcasters must remember, however, that fresh faces are constantly tuning in as they grow. While you…

Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one? 2025-04-15 at 18:18 By Dan Robinson Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed deployment times, even…

Bitcoin trader doubts breakout ‘significance’ as BTC price nears $87K 2025-04-15 at 18:01 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) eyed new April highs at the April 15 Wall Street open amid skepticism over BTC price strength. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin price faces multiple resistance hurdles Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView…

Ethereum market share nears historic lows as ETH price risks falling to $1,100 2025-04-15 at 18:01 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Ether’s (ETH) market is very close to hitting all-time lows as a classic bearish chart pattern hints at a deeper correction toward $1,100. Ethereum’s market dominance keeps falling On April 9, Ethereum’s market dominance,…

Mantra and Terra Luna: Nothing in common but a token crash 2025-04-15 at 18:01 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz The recent collapse of the Mantra (OM) token triggered comparisons to the infamous Terra ecosystem crash in May 2022, with some commentators referring to Mantra as the “next Terra.” Still, many in the community argue that…

Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week 2025-04-15 at 17:22 By Jessica Lyons Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again) A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China’s Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that’s “even better”…

Chinese Hackers Target Linux Systems Using SNOWLIGHT Malware and VShell Tool 2025-04-15 at 17:21 By The China-linked threat actor known as UNC5174 has been attributed to a new campaign that leverages a variant of a known malware dubbed SNOWLIGHT and a new open-source tool called VShell to infect Linux systems. “Threat actors are increasingly using…

Critical Apache Roller Vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) Enables Unauthorized Session Persistence 2025-04-15 at 17:21 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Apache Roller open-source, Java-based blogging server software that could allow malicious actors to retain unauthorized access even after a password change. The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24859, carries a CVSS score…

Pump.Fun’s PumpSwap DEX processed $2.5B of trades last week, up 40% 2025-04-15 at 17:01 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Market data shows PumpSwap, the decentralized exchange of memecoin launch platform Pump.Fun, processed $2.5 billion of trades last week. DefiLlama data shows that in the week of April 6, PumpSwap saw a trading volume increase of nearly 40%…

DeFi platform KiloEx offers $750K bounty to hacker 2025-04-15 at 17:01 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Decentralized exchange (DEX) KiloEx has offered the hacker who exploited $7.5 million in crypto from its platform a 10% white hat bounty.  On April 15, KiloEx posted an offer directed to the hacker who stole millions from the DEX.…

Crypto’s debanking problem persists despite new regulations 2025-04-15 at 17:01 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood The crypto industry’s inability to access banking services still concerns many industry observers despite recent policy victories. In past years, financial services firms and banks concerned about fiduciary risk, reporting liabilities and reputational risk often would refuse to offer service…

US senator warns ‘China is cheering’ for proposed NASA budget cuts 2025-04-15 at 16:25 By Richard Speed Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door The proposed cuts to NASA’s budget are drawing sharp criticism from US lawmakers, with one saying: “If you cut this budget, you cut into the heart of America’s leadership…

Incomplete NVIDIA patch could leave AI infrastructure and data at risk 2025-04-15 at 16:19 By An incomplete NVIDIA patch could leave AI infrastructure and data at risk. Security leaders share their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Using AI to Predict, Stop and Recover from the Next Ransomware Incident 2025-04-15 at 16:13 By Eric Chien Introducing Incident Prediction, an industry-first capability that can accurately predict an attackers’ next four or five moves with up to 100% confidence This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this…

Can you really buy anything with Pi coin? Find out here! 2025-04-15 at 16:13 By Cointelegraph by Shailey Singh Key takeaways Pi coin finally went live on open mainnet in February 2025, unlocking real-world use cases after years in closed beta. You can spend Pi coin, but mostly within P2P communities and KYC-verified Pi apps…

Crypto ‘uninvestable’ if exchanges ignore manipulation: DeFiance CEO 2025-04-15 at 16:13 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra A crypto investment executive said the biggest problem with digital asset markets is price manipulation, claiming that collusion between market makers and exchanges distorts token prices.  Arthur Cheong, founder of crypto investment firm DeFiance Capital, said in an X…

ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK? 2025-04-15 at 15:35 By Richard Speed Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century’s tech Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.… This article…

Majority of Browser Extensions Can Access Sensitive Enterprise Data, New Report Finds 2025-04-15 at 15:35 By Everybody knows browser extensions are embedded into nearly every user’s daily workflow, from spell checkers to GenAI tools. What most IT and security people don’t know is that browser extensions’ excessive permissions are a growing risk to organizations. LayerX…

Only 11% of El Salvador’s registered Bitcoin firms operational 2025-04-15 at 15:04 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Only 20 of the 181 Bitcoin service providers registered with El Salvador’s central bank are operational, with the rest failing to meet the country’s requirements under its Bitcoin Law.  Local media outlet El Mundo cited data from the…

Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks 2025-04-15 at 14:47 By Connor Jones Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.… This article is an excerpt from The Register…

Bitcoin shows growing strength during market downturn — Wintermute 2025-04-15 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Bitcoin is showing growing resilience to macroeconomic headwinds compared with traditional financial markets, according to an April 14 report from crypto market maker Wintermute. The report noted that Bitcoin (BTC) has held up relatively well during the ongoing…

Can 3-month Bitcoin RSI highs counter bearish BTC price ‘seasonality?’ 2025-04-15 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) demands a breakout as a key leading indicator reaches its highest levels since January. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows the relative strength index (RSI) hinting at more BTC price gains next. Bitcoin…

Still browsing like it’s 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive 2025-04-15 at 13:47 By Liam Proven You can’t keep a good OS down The first Intel-based Mac was 19 years ago, but new versions of apps for both Classic Mac OS and PowerPC Mac OS X still occasionally appear, and…

NetRise Raises $10 Million to Grow Software Supply Chain Security Platform 2025-04-15 at 13:32 By Mike Lennon Software supply chain security provider NetRise today announced raising $10 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company close to $25 million. The new investment round was led by DNX Ventures,…

Crypto Developers Targeted by Python Malware Disguised as Coding Challenges 2025-04-15 at 13:32 By The North Korea-linked threat actor assessed to be behind the massive Bybit hack in February 2025 has been linked to a malicious campaign that targets developers to deliver new stealer malware under the guise of a coding assignment. The activity has…