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Universal Music and AI song generator Udio settle lawsuit, announces plans to partner on new platform 2025-10-31 at 01:47 By Associated Press Universal Music Group and AI song generation platform Udio have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit and agreed to team up on new music creation and streaming platform, the two companies said. This article is an…

Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years 2025-10-31 at 01:47 By Lindsay Clark Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand Alphabet, Google’s parent company, expects capital expenditures to hit $93 billion in 2025, largely to meet demand from cloud customers, according to its recent…

Google’s Built-In AI Defenses on Android Now Block 10 Billion Scam Messages a Month 2025-10-31 at 01:46 By Google on Thursday revealed that the scam defenses built into Android safeguard users around the world from more than 10 billion suspected malicious calls and messages every month. The tech giant also said it has blocked over…

Russian Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Open-Source AdaptixC2 for Advanced Attacks 2025-10-31 at 01:46 By The open-source command-and-control (C2) framework known as AdaptixC2 is being used by a growing number of threat actors, some of whom are related to Russian ransomware gangs. AdaptixC2 is an emerging extensible post-exploitation and adversarial emulation framework designed for penetration testing. While…

Amazon shares soar as AI demand boosts cloud revenue — and results fire up CEO Andy Jassy 2025-10-31 at 01:42 By Reuters “AWS is growing at a pace we haven’t seen since 2022,” CEO Andy Jassy said. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source React to this headline:

Coinbase adds $300M Bitcoin as it pushes ‘Everything Exchange’ vision 2025-10-31 at 01:32 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Coinbase recorded another profitable quarter with $432.6 million in net income in Q3 on the back of $1.9 billion in revenue, while Coinbase’s Bitcoin holdings rose by 2,772 BTC. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News…

Apple sales top $100B despite missing iPhone forecasts — but CEO Tim Cook expects big holiday quarter 2025-10-31 at 00:07 By Reuters The outlook comes as Cook said the company struggled to meet demand for several iPhone 17 models and some older iPhone 16 models during its just-ended fiscal fourth quarter. This article is an…

Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy 2025-10-30 at 23:49 By Jessica Lyons No costume idea? We’ve got you covered Hacking makes the holidays so much more enjoyable, and nothing says trick or treat quite like pwning LED Halloween masks belonging to every neighborhood kid during candy-collection hours.… This article is an excerpt from The…

A humanoid robot will do all of your mundane chores for $20,000 2025-10-30 at 23:10 By Nadine Bourne It looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source React to this headline:

Claude code will send your data to crims … if they ask it nicely 2025-10-30 at 23:00 By Thomas Claburn Company tells users concerned about exfiltration to ‘stop it if you see it’ A researcher has found a way to trick Claude into uploading private data to an attacker’s account using indirect prompt injection. Anthropic…

Eric Schmidt’s scorned girlfriend’s $100M lawsuit exposes ex-Google CEO’s jet-setting love life — away from his wife 2025-10-30 at 21:35 By Jeanette Settembre After five years of being with Silicon Valley’s most eligible married bachelor and 70-year-old ex-Google CEO, she wanted him to leave his wife for her. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News…

Suspected Chinese snoops weaponize unpatched Windows flaw to spy on European diplomats 2025-10-30 at 21:20 By Jessica Lyons Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March – but that Microsoft hasn’t fixed yet – to target…

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot 2025-10-30 at 21:15 By Brandon Vigliarolo People, Files, and Calendar companion apps gain an auto-installed dose of AI Just when you thought Microsoft had run out of Windows apps to stuff with Copilot, it’s cramming the AI into your taskbar companions –…

BTC mining industry finances AI gold rush with $11B convertible bond boom 2025-10-30 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The Bitcoin mining industry is financing its expensive pivot to AI data centers with convertible debt that sometimes features a 0% coupon. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

‘Cut-throat’ battle for crypto ETNs erupts in UK after retail ban lifted 2025-10-30 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi With retail access restored, crypto exchange-traded notes issuers slash fees to historic lows, signaling an intensifying battle for UK market dominance. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Bitcoin bears give three reasons why the bull market is over 2025-10-30 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Bitcoin MACD’s bearish crossover and the duration after BTC’s last halving could be signs that the 2025 bull run is over, or is this time different? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto 2025-10-30 at 19:06 By Joe Fay Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to…

Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can’t sell Blackwell in China 2025-10-30 at 19:06 By Brandon Vigliarolo US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs Talks between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea yielded a modest thaw, with the two agreeing to…

US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast 2025-10-30 at 19:06 By Lindsay Clark Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds ‘prudence’ as federal contracts stall ServiceNow has built some “prudence” into its earnings guidance due to the ongoing US government shutdown.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React…

New “Brash” Exploit Crashes Chromium Browsers Instantly with a Single Malicious URL 2025-10-30 at 19:05 By A severe vulnerability disclosed in Chromium’s Blink rendering engine can be exploited to crash many Chromium-based browsers within a few seconds. Security researcher Jose Pino, who disclosed details of the flaw, has codenamed it Brash. “It allows any Chromium…

Bitcoin risks ’20-30%’ drop as crypto markets liquidate $1.1B in 24 hours 2025-10-30 at 17:15 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin fell to the bottom of its local range as traders lost over $1 billion as a result of the surprise BTC price downside after the Fed interest-rate cut. This article is an excerpt from…

Who is Michael Selig? Trump nominates pro-crypto lawyer to head CFTC 2025-10-30 at 17:15 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood The Trump administration has appointed Michael Selig, a pro-crypto lawyer and SEC counsel, to head up the CFTC. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Can ChatGPT really predict the next crypto market crash? 2025-10-30 at 17:15 By Cointelegraph by Tayyub Yaqoob ChatGPT cannot time crashes but can flag early warning signs by merging onchain, derivatives and sentiment data, helping traders detect risk clusters before markets break. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs 2025-10-30 at 17:15 By Liam Proven Big release with a lot of new features – and a few inevitable glitches The KDE Plasma 6.5 graphical shell arrived last week for Unix-like operating systems, and now 6.5.1 is here for the more cautious.…

Invisible npm malware pulls a disappearing act – then nicks your tokens 2025-10-30 at 16:27 By Carly Page PhantomRaven slipped over a hundred credential-stealing packages into npm A new supply chain attack dubbed PhantomRaven has flooded the npm registry with malicious packages that steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when…

AI will forever change smart contract audits 2025-10-30 at 15:47 By Cointelegraph by Jesus Rodriguez Point-in-time audits fail in composable, adversarial markets. AI-powered continuous assurance using solvers and simulation replaces episodic security checks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Nakamoto Holdings’ shares sink as $563M PIPE deals trigger massive sell-off 2025-10-30 at 15:47 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas CEO David Bailey told Forbes he plans to fold Bitcoin Magazine, the Bitcoin conference and hedge fund 210k Capital into Nakamoto Holdings to boost cash flow. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

Bending Spoons scoops up AOL in $2.8B debt-fueled deal 2025-10-30 at 15:47 By Richard Speed Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye Bending Spoons, an Italian tech biz, is buying AOL from Yahoo, funded by a $2.8 billion debt financing package that will also bankroll future acquisitions.… This article is an…

Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market 2025-10-30 at 15:47 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols ‘We should be a public company,’ Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not ‘with our trousers around our ankles’ Interview  An initial public offering is a matter of when, not if, for Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, though…

Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus 2025-10-30 at 15:47 By Dan Robinson Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge Equinix will occupy a massive datacenter campus near London’s M25, investing £3.9 billion ($5.1 billion) in the 85-acre (0.34 square kilometers) Hertfordshire plot close to…

Cyberpunks mess with Canada’s water, energy, and farm systems 2025-10-30 at 15:47 By Carly Page Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions…

The Death of the Security Checkbox: BAS Is the Power Behind Real Defense 2025-10-30 at 15:46 By Security doesn’t fail at the point of breach. It fails at the point of impact.  That line set the tone for this year’s Picus Breach and Simulation (BAS) Summit, where researchers, practitioners, and CISOs all echoed the same…

Standard Chartered sees $2T in tokenized RWAs by 2028, matching stablecoins 2025-10-30 at 15:38 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The $300 billion stablecoin market capitalization pushed DeFi into a “self-sustaining cycle” of growth, according to the investment bank’s head of research. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Azure’s bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe 2025-10-30 at 13:54 By Richard Speed Time to put eggs in more than one basket? As Azure staggers back to its feet following an hours-long outage last night, British and European businesses are questioning their reliance on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.… This article is an…

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage 2025-10-30 at 13:34 By Simon Sharwood We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time IBM has one-upped AWS and Microsoft by reporting an outage in one of its…

Determining the Credibility of Online Threats in a World of Digital Noise 2025-10-30 at 13:34 By While many online threats are nothing more than idle chatter, pranks, or cries for attention, others are chillingly real — and the challenge is determining which is which before tragedy strikes. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to…

Bitcoin spot volume passes $300B in October as traders show ‘healthy’ pivot 2025-10-30 at 13:27 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin spot volume spiked after the “Uptober” BTC price dip as traders sought less risky environments, according to new research. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Postcode Lottery’s lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other’s info 2025-10-30 at 12:54 By Connor Jones Biz says ‘technical error’ caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users.… This article is an…

ThreatsDay Bulletin: DNS Poisoning Flaw, Supply-Chain Heist, Rust Malware Trick and New RATs Rising 2025-10-30 at 12:54 By The comfort zone in cybersecurity is gone. Attackers are scaling down, focusing tighter, and squeezing more value from fewer, high-impact targets. At the same time, defenders face growing blind spots — from spoofed messages to large-scale social…