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UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down 2025-08-11 at 14:47 By Connor Jones Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers.… This article is…

6 Lessons Learned: Focusing Security Where Business Value Lives 2025-08-11 at 14:46 By The Evolution of Exposure Management Most security teams have a good sense of what’s critical in their environment. What’s harder to pin down is what’s business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can’t function without. They’re not always…

Bitcoin’s corporate boom raises ‘Fort Knox’ nationalization concerns 2025-08-11 at 14:02 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Bitcoin’s corporate adoption is increasingly resembling the “nationalization path” of gold leading up to 1971, presenting a new centralization concern, according to Willy Woo. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’ 2025-08-11 at 14:02 By Gareth Halfacree Well, at least he didn’t drop the F-bomb Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer “on notice” for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V…

Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study 2025-08-11 at 13:32 By Gareth Halfacree Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn’t stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles,…

Big Tech workers top donations to Mamdani campaign in headache for Google, Meta 2025-08-11 at 13:03 By Thomas Barrabi Big Tech workers were among the biggest donors to Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign – creating a fresh dilemma for Google, Meta and other firms that may be privately skeptical of the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist’s policies.…

BTC price to fill $117K CME gap? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-08-11 at 13:03 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin has a new dip target as a new week begins with BTC price action targeting all-time highs — will bulls end up defending $117,000? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com…

The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business 2025-08-11 at 12:56 By Lindsay Clark AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey Feature  Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part…

Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch 2025-08-11 at 12:22 By Dominic Connor And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers The job market is queasy and since you’re reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It’s going to require some work to…

AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future 2025-08-11 at 11:28 By Rupert Goodwins Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters Opinion  Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do…

S&P Global assigns ‘B-’ credit rating to Sky Protocol, first for DeFi protocol 2025-08-11 at 11:06 By Cointelegraph by Lyne Qian S&P Global’s credit rating of Sky Protocol reflects key concerns over governance centralization, weak capitalization and regulatory uncertainty. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

LayerZero, Stargate tokens jump on $110M acquisition plan 2025-08-11 at 10:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan LayerZero pitched a $110 million all-token deal to buy Stargate, but not everyone from the crypto protocol’s community is happy with the proposal. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

‘Mysterious institution’ buys almost $1B worth of Ether in week 2025-08-11 at 10:02 By Cointelegraph by Tarang Khaitan Ethereum’s market capitalization currently sits at $523 billion, overtaking global payment cards company Mastercard. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Bitcoin surge to $122K was ‘just a matter of time,’ Analyst says 2025-08-11 at 10:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Bitcoin surged above $122,000, within 1% of its all-time high, following last week’s pro-crypto White House executive order and three strong days of Bitcoin ETF inflows. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

WinRAR Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation – Update to Latest Version Immediately 2025-08-11 at 09:46 By The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version…

China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests 2025-08-11 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030 China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna – and…

Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t channel paranoid androids quite so often 2025-08-11 at 08:48 By Simon Sharwood Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem…

Ethereum bag holders will rotate back to Bitcoin: Samson Mow 2025-08-11 at 08:16 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Bitcoin maximalist Samson Mow predicts the ETH investors will rotate back to BTC, but previous market cycles suggest altcoin growth patterns will continue. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Saylor’s Strategy started buying Bitcoin 5 years ago. It’s now up 2,600% 2025-08-11 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan MicroStrategy, now known as Strategy, first purchased Bitcoin exactly five years ago on Aug. 11, 2020, a move that helped revive its share price after a two-decade lull. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com…

Bitcoin is the ‘perfect asset’ for the next 1,000 years: Willy Woo 2025-08-11 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Bitcoin is the “perfect asset” for the next 1,000 years, but it needs far more flows to compete with the US dollar and gold, a Bitcoin OG said. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com…

Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales 2025-08-11 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.… This article…

At least 1 Bitcoiner gets kidnapped every week — Crypto exec 2025-08-11 at 01:23 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Alena Vranova said that personal safety measures should not be ignored by Bitcoin and crypto investors with modest holdings. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

World Mobile launches drone-based, decentralized telecom project 2025-08-10 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The decentralized telecommunication project uses unmanned aerial drones in the stratosphere to provide wireless services to users. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

New Win-DDoS Flaws Let Attackers Turn Public Domain Controllers into DDoS Botnet via RPC, LDAP 2025-08-10 at 22:37 By A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet and use it to conduct power distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The approach has…

Frustrated woman innocently put a card inside her laptop before closing it — and was shocked at the havoc it caused: ‘Is that common knowledge?’ 2025-08-10 at 20:12 By Fabiana Buontempo “I would have never thought that could happen…” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post…

How high will Ethereum price go after breaking $4K? ETH analysts weigh in 2025-08-10 at 20:12 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Ethereum bulls make a strong case for an ETH price rally toward $10,000 or above in the next six to eight months. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

The future belongs to those who own their AI 2025-08-10 at 18:26 By Cointelegraph by Syed Hussain As AI rapidly replaces white-collar jobs, the future economy will belong to those owning AI agents rather than renting access from Big Tech. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Bitcoin can liquidate $18B with 10% price gain as traders see $120K next 2025-08-10 at 17:01 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin traders are getting excited over a huge short squeeze as BTC price predictions include a return to all-time highs. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Researchers Detail Windows EPM Poisoning Exploit Chain Leading to Domain Privilege Escalation 2025-08-10 at 17:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have presented new findings related to a now-patched security issue in Microsoft’s Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) communication protocol that could be abused by an attacker to conduct spoofing attacks and impersonate a known server. The vulnerability,…

Crypto debanking is ‘still occurring’ as banks stick to Chokepoint policies 2025-08-10 at 15:36 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Despite Trump’s pro-crypto stance, Unicoin CEO says US banks continue closing accounts for crypto firms under “Operation Chokepoint.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats 2025-08-10 at 15:36 By Jessica Lyons Five pilot deployments are just a drop in the bucket, so it’s time to turbo scale def con  A DEF CON hacker walks into a small-town water facility…no, this is not the setup for a…

Bipartisan senators call for Instagram to shut down its new map feature, citing children’s safety concerns 2025-08-10 at 13:46 By Fox Business Instagram users can opt in to using the map tool and may also select which followers can see their locations, Meta said in a press release. Users may turn the feature off at…

How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75% 2025-08-10 at 13:05 By Tobias Mann Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved Analysis  Whether or not OpenAI’s new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of…

Embargo ransomware group moved $34M in crypto since April: TRM Labs 2025-08-10 at 11:01 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas TRM Labs says the Embargo ransomware group has moved over $34 million in ransom-linked crypto since April, targeting US hospitals and critical infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

NASA won’t name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas 2025-08-10 at 10:39 By Richard Speed Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won’t say which one The NASA acting Administrator has picked a Space Shuttle to move to Houston, and the lucky vehicle is… NASA’s not telling.… This article is an excerpt from…

Michael Saylor is not sweating the rise of Ethereum treasury companies 2025-08-10 at 10:00 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Michael Saylor isn’t worried about growing treasury interest in crypto assets beyond Bitcoin, claiming that Bitcoin will outpace the S&P 500 for the “indefinite future.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reclaims ‘onchain billionaire’ crown 2025-08-10 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Vitalik Buterin’s net worth could be bolstered even more as crypto traders are eyeing new all-time highs for Ether in just days. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline: