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$50 Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Cloud Security Protections 2025-09-30 at 22:33 By A group of academics from KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham has demonstrated a new vulnerability called Battering RAM to bypass the latest defenses on Intel and AMD cloud processors. “We built a simple, $50 interposer that sits quietly…

Following US success, Robinhood eyes expansion of prediction markets overseas 2025-09-30 at 22:18 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Robinhood eyes UK and EU rollout of its booming prediction markets, but faces questions over classification. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

ETH falls as crypto, stocks correct, but $547M spot ETF inflows show TradFi positioning 2025-09-30 at 22:18 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman ETH failed to trade above $4,300, but $547 million in inflows to the spot Ether ETFs highlight TradFi’s position on the future direction of ETH price. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com…

Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes 2025-09-30 at 22:18 By Richard Speed Company faces a setback on the test stand Firefly Aerospace’s run of bad luck has continued after the first stage of its Alpha Flight 7 rocket was lost during testing.… This article is an excerpt from The Register…

Amazon unveils new AI-powered Ring, Echo, Kindle devices for Alexa+ 2025-09-30 at 21:54 By Reuters Amazon is trying to drive interest in the new Alexa, which it spent years updating with AI for better personalization and a more conversational tone. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original…

IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year 2025-09-30 at 21:54 By Dan Robinson Linux-based System z emulator will go away on Dec. 31, replaced by cloud-based solution from ISVs IBM is killing off a mainframe coding toolkit for PCs and withdrawing all support, directing developers to instead use a cloud-hosted environment for dev…

Windowless ‘plane of the future’ airs sky view on video screens — and flyers aren’t impressed: ‘A big tin can’ 2025-09-30 at 21:32 By Ben Cost The idea of flying sans a regular view to the outside of the aircraft — which measures 22-feet long and 7.5-feet wide — might seem akin to traveling in…

Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries 2025-09-30 at 21:31 By Danny Palmer DashCam’s autonomous vehicle may strike fear into the hearts… of delivery drivers Rise of the machines  Machines may soon be taking over the mean streets of suburban America . . . in the form of Dot by DoorDash.…

California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork 2025-09-30 at 21:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo LLM makers have to file a steady stream of reports in the name of transparency A year after vetoing a tougher bill, California Gov Gavin Newsom has signed the nation’s first AI transparency law, forcing big model developers…

Top NY regulator updates crypto guidance after announcing departure 2025-09-30 at 21:05 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright With about two weeks to go until Superintendent Adrienne Harris is expected to leave the NYDFS, she announced a two-year update to guidance for New York crypto users. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

Bitcoin’s rare September gains defy history: Data predicts 50% Q4 rally to $170K 2025-09-30 at 21:05 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Bitcoin moves closer to a positive monthly close, which has historically been followed by strong double-digit rallies in Q4. Is $170,000 possible by the end of 2025? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com…

How to use AI to spot whale wallet moves before the crowd 2025-09-30 at 20:09 By Cointelegraph by Tobias Vilkenson Stop reacting, start predicting: How AI spots whale moves that can make or break the market before anyone else notices. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Can Solana rival Wall Street? Kyle Samani thinks so 2025-09-30 at 20:09 By Cointelegraph by Marco Castrovilli In an interview with Cointelegraph, Forward Industries’ Kyle Samani explains why he raised $1 billion for a Solana treasury strategy and how he plans to bring global markets onchain. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

Senators rail against Tesla AI’s apparent inability to detect train crossings 2025-09-30 at 20:09 By Dan Robinson Full Self-Driving mode could be on-track to cause serious accidents A pair of US senators is asking the federal traffic safety agency to look into Tesla’s self-driving software in response to complaints that it fails to stop for…

Phantom Taurus: New China-Linked Hacker Group Hits Governments With Stealth Malware 2025-09-30 at 20:08 By Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed Phantom Taurus over the past two-and-a-half years. “Phantom Taurus’ main focus areas include ministries of foreign…

Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears 2025-09-30 at 19:26 By Connor Jones 50,000 firewall devices still exposed Nearly 50,000 Cisco ASA/FTD instances vulnerable to two bugs that are actively being exploited by “advanced” attackers remain exposed to the internet, according to Shadowserver data.… This article is an excerpt from…

SEC weighs plan to allow blockchain-based stock trading amid crypto push: Report 2025-09-30 at 19:04 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The SEC is exploring a plan to let blockchain-based versions of stocks trade on crypto exchanges, signaling growing support for tokenization. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Passenger lands in hospital after humiliating TSA spat over stubborn jewelry  2025-09-30 at 18:45 By Ben Cost “Anything that has a battery that also goes on your body should be made super easy to take off, in case of battery expansion.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View…

Pop! System76’s 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC 2025-09-30 at 18:22 By Liam Proven Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right? It’s September 2025 and the beta of the April 2024 release of Pop!_OS is here. It’s fast, fluid – and fallible.… This article…

Did Bitcoin just finish its 8-week delay in copying gold’s all-time highs? 2025-09-30 at 18:05 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin traded revealed that BTC price action could be ready to follow gold to new all-time highs after bulls held onto early-week gains. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

James Wynn’s big wins (and losses): The truth about trading with leverage 2025-09-30 at 17:55 By Cointelegraph by Tobias Vilkenson James Wynn’s high-leverage bets on Bitcoin and memecoins turned him into one of crypto’s most-watched traders, with both wins and wipeouts. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Logitech’s MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love 2025-09-30 at 17:38 By Richard Speed Ergonomic, feature-packed, and still right-handed only (Right) Hands On  Logitech has unveiled its latest MX Master mouse, filled with impressive new productivity features, including an added button and haptic feedback. However, like most mice on the…

Researchers Disclose Google Gemini AI Flaws Allowing Prompt Injection and Cloud Exploits 2025-09-30 at 17:23 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three now-patched security vulnerabilities impacting Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could have exposed users to major privacy risks and data theft. “They made Gemini vulnerable to search-injection attacks on its…

Microsoft Expands Sentinel Into Agentic Security Platform With Unified Data Lake 2025-09-30 at 17:23 By Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the expansion of its Sentinel Security Incidents and Event Management solution (SIEM) as a unified agentic platform with the general availability of the Sentinel data lake. In addition, the tech giant said it’s also releasing a…

Stop Alert Chaos: Context Is the Key to Effective Incident Response 2025-09-30 at 17:23 By The Problem: Legacy SOCs and Endless Alert Noise Every SOC leader knows the feeling: hundreds of alerts pouring in, dashboards lighting up like a slot machine, analysts scrambling to keep pace. The harder they try to scale people or buy…

Urgent: China-Linked Hackers Exploit New VMware Zero-Day Since October 2024 2025-09-30 at 17:23 By A newly patched security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by a threat actor called UNC5174, according to NVISO Labs. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-41244…

Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead? No, wait – it’s on Windows 2025-09-30 at 16:25 By Tim Anderson Rust-coded editor beta arrives with general availability promised in October Zed Industries has released a public beta of its code editor for Windows, marking a significant milestone for the Rust-based VS Code alternative that has until now been…

ServiceNow thinks you’re doing AI fast and wrong 2025-09-30 at 16:01 By Simon Sharwood And of course thinks it can help you do it right, once it gets around to delivering Three weeks after releasing one of its biannual platform upgrades, ServiceNow has started delivering an “AI Experience.”… This article is an excerpt from The…

NASA’s deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat 2025-09-30 at 15:12 By Richard Speed DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstration has completed its final pass, although there is a chance the system might be reactivated in the second half of 2026.… This…

New Android Trojan “Datzbro” Tricking Elderly with AI-Generated Facebook Travel Events 2025-09-30 at 14:54 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Android banking trojan called Datzbro that can conduct device takeover (DTO) attacks and perform fraudulent transactions by preying on the elderly. Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it discovered the campaign in August…

Evolving Enterprise Defense to Secure the Modern AI Supply Chain 2025-09-30 at 13:03 By The world of enterprise technology is undergoing a dramatic shift. Gen-AI adoption is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and SaaS vendors are embedding powerful LLMs directly into their platforms. Organizations are embracing AI-powered applications across every function, from marketing and development…

U.K. Police Just Seized £5.5 Billion in Bitcoin — The World’s Largest Crypto Bust 2025-09-30 at 13:03 By A Chinese national has been convicted for her role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme after law enforcement authorities in the U.K. confiscated £5.5 billion (about $7.39 billion) during a raid of her home in London. The cryptocurrency…

Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers 2025-09-30 at 11:04 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Impact? Nope, don’t worry, be happy, says Linux veteran Opinion  There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however,…

AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can’t: Make sense of Microsoft licensing 2025-09-30 at 10:43 By Richard Speed Thankfully, Onyx’s model also knows when to defer to a human for advice Interview  It was inevitable that AI would be deployed to help enterprises navigate the labyrinth that is modern software licensing, given the…

SEC trading halt of crypto treasury firm QMMM is a TradFi issue 2025-09-30 at 09:14 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Shares in QMMM Holdings will be off the market until Oct. 13 after the US securities regulator suspended trading to probe possible stock manipulation. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source…