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ChatGPT gave instructions on how to bomb arenas, make anthrax and illegal drugs, alarmed researchers reveal 2025-08-30 at 00:20 By Ariel Zilber The AI chatbot also detailed how to weaponize anthrax and manufacture two types of illegal drugs during the disturbing experiments, it was reported. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and…

Strategy Bitcoin lawsuit dismissed as investors withdraw case 2025-08-30 at 00:19 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino A dismissal with prejudice means that the plaintiffs can’t amend the complaint and refile the suit, according to the general counsel for Duoro Labs. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Ether breaks below ‘Tom Lee’ trendline: Is a 10% incoming? 2025-08-30 at 00:19 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Ether price dipped under the $4,300 support as September seasonality heightens correction risks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots 2025-08-30 at 00:19 By Iain Thomson The admin controls were left wide open on Pudu’s robots A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make…

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference 2025-08-29 at 23:50 By Tobias Mann Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs. … This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original…

Crypto Biz: Japan’s quiet stablecoin coup 2025-08-29 at 23:05 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Japan readies its first yen-backed stablecoin, signaling a shift from regulatory caution to active participation in digital finance. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Price predictions 8/29: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, LINK, HYPE, SUI 2025-08-29 at 23:05 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin dropped below $108,000 on Friday, and the rest of the crypto market followed. Will $100,000 be BTC’s next stop? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Agentic AI project Eliza Labs sues Elon Musk’s xAI 2025-08-29 at 23:05 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said that xAI demanded more licensing fees from the agentic AI platform or face possible legal action. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups 2025-08-29 at 23:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole ‘MechaHitler’ thing are all the evidence needed, say authors Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI’s Grok in the federal government, calling…

Hyperliquid token gains institutional access with new 21Shares ETP 2025-08-29 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Institutional investors now have their first exposure to Hyperliquid’s native token through a Europe-listed crypto ETP. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says 2025-08-29 at 21:25 By Thomas Claburn GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame?……

Researchers Warn of Sitecore Exploit Chain Linking Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution 2025-08-29 at 21:25 By Three new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Sitecore Experience Platform that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution.  The flaws, per watchTowr Labs, are listed below – CVE-2025-53693 – HTML cache poisoning…

Bitcoin whales rotate into Ether, despite record $5B ETH validator exit queue: Finance Redefined 2025-08-29 at 21:09 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Crypto markets are seeing a “natural rotation” into Ether and altcoins with more potential upside, Nansen’s research analyst told Cointelegraph. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

Ether ETFs hit $13.7B as inflows surge and corporate treasuries grow 2025-08-29 at 21:09 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino Ethereum’s roadmap is entering a “critical inflection point,” say Bitfinex analysts, with the valuation trading at a relative discount compared to Bitcoin. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content 2025-08-29 at 20:54 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols But the cure may ruin the web…. With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM)…

AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials 2025-08-29 at 20:34 By Jessica Lyons Look who’s visiting the watering hole these days Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia’s APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts and data.… This article is an excerpt…

Faced with application influx, Ethereum Foundation pauses open grant submissions 2025-08-29 at 20:02 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi After awarding millions of dollars, the Ethereum Foundation is overhauling its Ecosystem Support Program, shifting from open applications to a curated model. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

5 signs that Ethereum’s bull market isn’t over below $5K 2025-08-29 at 20:02 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Despite Ether’s 12% drawdown from all-time highs, there is hope for the bulls as new data suggests that the ETH price could still rise higher in 2025. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot 2025-08-29 at 20:02 By Gareth Halfacree Platform’s staffer complains security review was ‘rushed’ Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk’s xAI, bringing early access to the company’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However,…

ChatGPT fueled ex-Yahoo exec’s delusions before he killed his mom, himself in posh NY suburb: report 2025-08-29 at 19:47 By Ariel Zilber Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, had confided his darkest suspicions to OpenAI’s popular bot, which he nicknamed “Bobby,” before the shocking murder-suicide This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews |…

Webinar: Learn How to Unite Dev, Sec, and Ops Teams With One Shared Playbook 2025-08-29 at 19:46 By Picture this: Your team rolls out some new code, thinking everything’s fine. But hidden in there is a tiny flaw that explodes into a huge problem once it hits the cloud. Next thing you know, hackers are…

Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud 2025-08-29 at 19:20 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘It blows my mind,’ says SecDef The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft’s use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it’s demanding Microsoft do more of its own digging to determine…

Bitcoin price dips to lowest since July 8 as liquidations pass $530M 2025-08-29 at 19:07 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin bulls watch as a bullish RSI divergence fails to stem the bleed in BTC price action, which risks losing $108,000 next if the bears gain momentum. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News…

Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs 2025-08-29 at 19:07 By Dan Robinson The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says Intel’s agreement with the US government incudes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have…

Malicious Actors Spread Malware Via Meta’s Advertising System 2025-08-29 at 19:01 By A Meta malvertising campaign has expanded to Android phones.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP’s emails as spam 2025-08-29 at 18:33 By David Meyer Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans’ emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.… This article is an…

Bitcoin treasury flops: These firms fumbled their BTC bets 2025-08-29 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun The Bitcoin treasury playbook is losing its punch as these companies watch their share prices tumble back to earth. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Ethereum Foundation’s near-term UX priority is interoperability 2025-08-29 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Ethereum Foundation researchers said interoperability is the top near-term UX priority, with focus on intent-based architecture, speed and unifying standards. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house 2025-08-29 at 17:49 By Liam Proven A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.… This article is an excerpt from…

In Other News: Iranian Ships Hacked, Verified Android Developers, AI Used in Attacks 2025-08-29 at 17:32 By SecurityWeek News Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: communications of dozens of Iranian ships disrupted, only apps from verified developers will run on Android devices, and AI used across multiple phases of malicious attacks. The…

30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle 2025-08-29 at 17:01 By Richard Speed Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps Forget Windows 95, it’s 30 years since Doom was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And thanks to the Raspberry Pi…

Amazon Disrupts APT29 Watering Hole Campaign Abusing Microsoft Device Code Authentication 2025-08-29 at 16:53 By Amazon on Friday said it flagged and disrupted what it described as an opportunistic watering hole campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT29 actors as part of their intelligence gathering efforts. The campaign used “compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious…

Abandoned Sogou Zhuyin Update Server Hijacked, Weaponized in Taiwan Espionage Campaign 2025-08-29 at 16:53 By An abandoned update server associated with input method editor (IME) software Sogou Zhuyin was leveraged by threat actors as part of an espionage campaign to deliver several malware families, including C6DOOR and GTELAM, in attacks primarily targeting users across Eastern…

Tokenized alternative funds jump 47% to $1.7B in 30 days 2025-08-29 at 16:25 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Ethereum leads tokenized institutional alternative funds with $1 billion in value, accounting for more than half of the market. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug 2025-08-29 at 16:25 By Gareth Halfacree Up to 29,000 organizations and potentially 370,000 security and IT pros affected Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platform to update immediately if not sooner, following the discovery of an authentication bypass…

HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 2025-08-29 at 16:25 By Dan Robinson Nobody knows why they need one, but folk seem to be buying them HP says AI PCs now make up a quarter of its sales, boosting revenue thanks to their higher price tags and the…

CISA Releases TTPs of Chinese State-Sponsored Threat Actors 2025-08-29 at 16:25 By CISA has released an advisory detailing the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) utilized by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Google Confirms Workspace Accounts Also Hit in Salesforce–Salesloft Drift Data Theft Campaign 2025-08-29 at 16:25 By Ionut Arghire Google says the same OAuth token compromise that enabled Salesforce data theft also let hackers access a small number of Workspace accounts via the Salesloft Drift integration. The post Google Confirms Workspace Accounts Also Hit in Salesforce–Salesloft…

Is XRP going to crash in September? 2025-08-29 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola XRP price must hold above $2.80 or risk triggering a technical correction in September, with the downside target closer to $2. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Dutch crypto firm Amdax targets 1% Bitcoin supply with $23M treasury launch 2025-08-29 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Dutch crypto firm Amdax raised $23.3 million to launch AMBTS, a Bitcoin treasury company aiming to list on Amsterdam’s Euronext and accumulate 1% of all BTC. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout 2025-08-29 at 15:03 By Connor Jones Senior officials summoned to science and tech committee to explain further Senior officials are being summoned to the UK’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government has not fully implemented the security recommendations made in…

Can Your Security Stack See ChatGPT? Why Network Visibility Matters 2025-08-29 at 14:47 By Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude are increasingly common in organizations. While these solutions improve efficiency across tasks, they also present new data leak prevention for generative AI challenges. Sensitive information may be shared through chat prompts, files…