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Trump Jr.-tied firm raises $50M for crypto, mining as Bitcoin peaks 2025-08-14 at 06:11 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Thumzup, a social marketing firm boasting Donald Trump Jr. as a shareholder, will spend $50 million to buy crypto and mining rigs. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Someone counter-hacked a North Korean IT worker: Here’s what they found 2025-08-14 at 06:11 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea A team of North Korean IT operatives behind 31 fake identities has been linked to the $680,000 hack of fan-token marketplace Favrr in June. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco’s AI sales by a cool billion bucks 2025-08-14 at 04:19 By Simon Sharwood Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy Cisco sold twice as much AI kit as it forecast during its 2025 fiscal year and…

Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests 2025-08-14 at 02:16 By Thomas Claburn A tool can become a crutch When doctors use AI image recognition technology to spot and remove precancerous growths known as adenomas during colonoscopies, the detection rate is higher. But take the AI away, and their rate…

Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super 2025-08-14 at 01:53 By Tobias Mann The world’s most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science Eggheads working on El Capitan, the world’s most powerful publicly known supercomputer, have developed a new tsunami forecasting system that could dramatically improve…

Crypto lawyer signals challenge to NY AG with ‘lawfare’ message 2025-08-14 at 01:01 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Letitia James, who holds New York state’s top law enforcement position, has come under scrutiny from some, claiming she was engaging in “lawfare” against the crypto industry. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

Bitcoin hits record high as traders expect liquidations to propel BTC above $125K 2025-08-14 at 01:01 By Cointelegraph by Big Smokey Bitcoin set another all-time high at $123,231 after US Consumer Price Index data showed July inflation was unchanged month-on-month and up 2.7% year-on-year. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source…

ETH transaction count rising amid $5K push, but competition erodes market share 2025-08-14 at 01:01 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The network is facing competition from next-generation layer-1 blockchains and layer-2 networks from within its own ecosystem. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Google caught flagging GOP fundraiser emails as ‘suspicious’ –sending them directly to spam: memo 2025-08-14 at 00:23 By Thomas Barrabi Google is flagging Republican fundraising emails as “dangerous” spam while leaving similar Democratic emails untouched, a major GOP consulting firm alleged in a bombshell note to clients on Wednesday. This article is an excerpt from…

Google Play sets new licensing rules on crypto wallet developers 2025-08-14 at 00:07 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino Google Play’s updated policy, effective Oct. 29, will require crypto wallet apps to meet specific licensing rules in certain countries. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

SOL traders expect $250, but Solana data sends mixed signals 2025-08-14 at 00:06 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman SOL price cracked the $200 barrier, but a rally to data suggests the factors needed for new highs are missing. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Altcoin Google searches hit highest since 2021 amid ETF, treasury moves 2025-08-14 at 00:06 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Google searches for “altcoin” and “Ethereum” are surging to multi-year highs, coinciding with a wave of altcoin ETF filings and a shift in corporate treasury strategies beyond Bitcoin. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News…

Claude Code’s copious coddling confounds cross customers 2025-08-13 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn Nevermind the errors, we’ve had it with “You’re absolutely right!” Developers using Anthropic’s Claude Code wish that the AI coding assistant would stop being so effusively supportive.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

Canary Capital registers Trump Coin ETF in Delaware 2025-08-13 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino The Trump Coin ETF from Canary Capital indicates that traditional finance products containing memecoins may still have demand. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

A16z Crypto and advocacy group call for NFT, DeFi app safe harbor at SEC 2025-08-13 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The two entities requested that the financial regulator provide a “safe harbor” for certain applications under the SEC’s broker-dealer registration requirements. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

Gov’t HR department latest to get nastygram from auditors 2025-08-13 at 22:56 By Brandon Vigliarolo OPM is the fourth federal agency to get a list of outstanding items from GAO in past two weeks Uncle Sam’s HR department has become the latest agency to get a nastygram from federal auditors, who are hoping its recently-appointed…

Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts 2025-08-13 at 22:22 By Jessica Lyons If there’s smoke? Fortinet warned customers about a critical FortiSIEM bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized commands, and said working exploit code for the flaw has been found in the wild.… This…

Bitcoin growth ‘remains exceptional’ as data shows BTC’s strongest phase just starting 2025-08-13 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Bitcoin growth models project $200,000 by 2025 and up to $1.5 million by 2035, outpacing gold and the Nasdaq in long-term returns. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

Bullish stock surges 218% in NYSE debut as crypto enters Wall Street limelight 2025-08-13 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi From a $37 IPO to $118 intraday, Bullish’s NYSE debut highlights Wall Street’s growing appetite for regulated crypto businesses. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

OpenAI’s GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting 2025-08-13 at 21:53 By Tobias Mann Gotta pay for all those GPUs somehow Comment  For all the superlative-laden claims, OpenAI’s new top model appears to be less of an advancement and more of a way to save compute costs — something that hasn’t…

Instagram ‘Map’ feature poses ‘significant’ safety and privacy risks that could endanger kids, state AGs warn 2025-08-13 at 21:43 By Thomas Barrabi Instagram’s controversial new “Map” feature carries “significant public safety and data privacy concerns” that could endanger kids, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general warned in a letter on Wednesday. This article is…

Toothpaste made out of hair could be on shelves in two years — scientists say it’s the secret to stopping tooth decay 2025-08-13 at 21:43 By Tracy Swartz Tooth decay affects nearly 90% of adults 20 to 64 years old and about 46% of children. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and…

Price predictions 8/13: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, LINK, HYPE, XLM 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin and Ether look poised to hit new highs soon. Which altcoins could follow? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund ups indirect Bitcoin exposure in 2025 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The European country’s sovereign wealth fund does not hold BTC directly but has indirect exposure through a portfolio of crypto companies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Brandon Vigliarolo Early 2000s joke now serious problem for coffee shops in the Land of the Morning Calm Take a look at the internet of decades past, and you’ll find plenty of jokes about bringing a desktop computer…

US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp? The more our Earth-bound society learns to rely on electronics, the greater the risk that weather from the stars shatters our reality. That’s why US…

Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer 2025-08-13 at 20:18 By Richard Speed Redmond let dev code loose in production Windows, leading to the bug Microsoft is having difficulty keeping development code out of the Windows event log after another message that users are advised to ignore turned up in…

New PS1Bot Malware Campaign Uses Malvertising to Deploy Multi-Stage In-Memory Attacks 2025-08-13 at 20:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that’s designed to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework called PS1Bot. “PS1Bot features a modular design, with several modules delivered used to perform a variety of malicious activities on infected systems,…

No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results 2025-08-13 at 19:47 By Avram Piltch How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less) hands on  Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked or type their URLs in through muscle memory, you probably still…

GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there’s now a ‘show additional models’ switch 2025-08-13 at 19:33 By Richard Speed Users want their customizations and their old models back There has been more furious backpedalling from OpenAI following the company’s ill-judged launch of GPT-5 and the removal of previous model selection.… This article is…

Bitcoin bulls charge at all-time highs as trader says $126K ‘pivotal’ 2025-08-13 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin already has new key price levels beyond current all-time highs as traders wait for Ether price discovery to hit. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

XRP futures OI jumps 20% as price charts target $6 in August 2025-08-13 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Multiple technical setups suggest a potential XRP price rally toward $6 and above amid increasing futures open interest. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago 2025-08-13 at 19:06 By Paul Kunert CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018 Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a “better time” when this was…

Here’s why delivery drones may soon become the new standard in the US 2025-08-13 at 18:32 By Associated Press The FAA proposed a new rule last week that would make it easier for companies to fly drones outside of an operator’s line of sight and therefore over longer distances. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

CoreWeave CFO: $25BN raised in debt and equity in 18 months 2025-08-13 at 18:20 By Dan Robinson Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model? Rent-a-GPU biz CoreWeave is still racking up eyewatering debts amid mounting net losses as it continues to burn cash on expanding datacenter…

Zoom and Xerox Release Critical Security Updates Fixing Privilege Escalation and RCE Flaws 2025-08-13 at 17:48 By Zoom and Xerox have addressed critical security flaws in Zoom Clients for Windows and FreeFlow Core that could allow privilege escalation and remote code execution.  The vulnerability impacting Zoom Clients for Windows, tracked as CVE-2025-49457 (CVSS score: 9.6),…

Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don’t have to dash to the printer to grab the ‘Fire everyone’ memo 2025-08-13 at 17:24 By Richard Speed Hit the button and then go on your own voyage of printer discovery Microsoft has made the “Pull Print” feature of Universal Print generally available, which means confidential print jobs…

AI model ‘personalities’ shape the quality of generated code 2025-08-13 at 16:48 By Thomas Claburn But despite the differences, all models excel at making errors and shouldn’t be trusted Generative AI coding models have common strengths and weaknesses, but express those characteristics differently due to variations in coding style.… This article is an excerpt from…

Bitcoin institutional volume hits 75% on Coinbase in new BTC price signal 2025-08-13 at 16:08 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg BTC price gains should be around the corner as institutional Bitcoin demand puts in a classic bullish move. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Box’s AI agents set to help US government agencies 2025-08-13 at 16:08 By Brandon Vigliarolo The vendor hops aboard GSA’s OneGov train, offering models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more Not to be left behind in the flurry of government-wide AI purchasing deals, Box has signed a deal with the feds that’ll inject some agentic…

Ethereum core dev’s crypto wallet drained by malicious AI extension 2025-08-13 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Ethereum core dev Zak Cole lost funds after a malicious Cursor extension stole his private key, highlighting rising wallet drainer attacks on builders. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Metaplanet outperforms Japan’s most liquid blue-chip stocks in 2025 2025-08-13 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Metaplanet has outperformed the Topix Core 30 index year-to-date, a benchmark tracking corporate giants like Toyota, Sony and Mitsubishi. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies 2025-08-13 at 15:22 By Gareth Halfacree Windows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you’ll still need another device to access them Microsoft is so confident in the reliability and security of its…