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‘Corpo chains’ doomed unless they embrace crypto’s ethos: StarkWare CEO 2025-10-21 at 10:04 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said corporate blockchains will help with mainstream adoption, but long term, they will be abandoned if they try to retain control. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

Canadian province to ban new crypto mining connections 2025-10-21 at 10:04 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby British Columbia is moving to ban new crypto mining connections to protect its Hydro power grid. For years, analysts have argued this is the wrong approach. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

How To Counter Evolving Cybersecurity Threats: The North Korean IT Worker Edition 2025-10-21 at 10:03 By The evolving tactics of the North Korean remote IT workers raise serious concerns for U.S. organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Coinbase splashes $25M to revive a podcast from the last bull run 2025-10-21 at 08:52 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Coinbase has paid $25 million for an NFT that compels the once popular crypto podcast UpOnly to restart. Bull market vibes anyone? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

Polygon boss says he’s been ‘questioning his loyalty’ toward Ethereum 2025-10-21 at 08:52 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Polygon’s Sandeep Nailwal slammed the Ethereum community for underappreciating Polygon’s role in the Ethereum ecosystem, prompting a response from Vitalik Buterin. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Coinbase to US: Embrace blockchain if you want to fight crime on it 2025-10-21 at 08:52 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Chief legal officer Paul Grewal said in his letter to the US Treasury Department that money laundering schemes have become increasingly sophisticated and law enforcement needs advanced technologies to counter them. This article is…

AWS reveals more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle 2025-10-21 at 08:52 By Simon Sharwood 12 more hours of pain followed initial outage Amazon Web Services has revealed that its efforts to recover from the massive mess at its US-EAST-1 region caused other services to fail.… This article is an…

Alibaba reveals 82 percent GPU resource savings – but this is no DeepSeek moment 2025-10-21 at 08:52 By Simon Sharwood Better scheduling and resource-sharing for inferencing workloads using multiple models, not a training breakthrough Chinese tech giant Alibaba has published a paper detailing scheduling tech it has used to achieve impressive utilization improvements across the…

US gov shutdown ‘likely’ to end this week: Trump adviser 2025-10-21 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea White House adviser Kevin Hassett says the US government shutdown will likely end this week, which could restart crypto regulatory progress. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Dogecoin’s House of Doge bets on Italian soccer underdog 2025-10-21 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby Dogecoin Foundation’s commercial arm has acquired a majority stake in US Triestina 1918 in a push for broader DOGE adoption, starting with sports. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

BitMine’s Lee says Ether’s ‘price dislocation’ is a signal to buy 2025-10-21 at 05:03 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte BitMine chairman Tom Lee said he expects Ethereum to enter a supercycle, making the current price an attractive risk vs reward purchase. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

AI wins Imitation Game: Readers prefer Fanfic written by ChatGPT 2025-10-21 at 05:03 By Thomas Claburn Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human human-written imitations,…

Suspected Salt Typhoon snoops lurking in European telco’s network 2025-10-21 at 02:03 By Jessica Lyons It’s Typhoon season…year round China’s Salt Typhoon gang appears to have successfully attacked a European telecommunications firm, according to security researchers at Darktrace.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

Ethereum needs Paradigm, VCs, despite value extraction concerns: Joseph Lubin 2025-10-21 at 01:11 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The main goal of VCs is to “suck as much value as possible” from Ethereum, but they remain necessary bridges for global capital entering the crypto industry, according to Lubin. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com…

X launches market for inactive handles amid push to monetize digital identity 2025-10-21 at 01:11 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Available to Premium X users, the new marketplace could see rare usernames sell for up to seven figures. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Nexperia drama intensifies as Dutch chipmaker denies ousted CEO’s claims of Chinese split 2025-10-21 at 01:11 By Tobias Mann The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker that’s found itself at the center of a geopolitical crisis, has denied claims by its former CEO that its Chinese division…

Aid groups use AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ to juice fundraising efforts 2025-10-21 at 01:11 By Thomas Claburn Researchers accuse tech firms of profiting from exploitative AI imagery The starving child whose picture broke your heart when you saw it on a charity website may not be real. Global health researchers say that stock image companies like…

Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs 2025-10-21 at 01:11 By Avram Piltch Some portions of the OS are still stuck on light Windows 11 launched way back in October 2021 and has become Microsoft’s must-have OS thanks to the impending end-of-life for Windows 10. After all that time, there are still…

Wise hints at stablecoin ambitions with new digital-asset product lead hire 2025-10-20 at 23:13 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Wise is hiring a digital-asset product lead focused on stablecoins, signaling potential expansion into crypto amid shifting global regulations. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

CleanSpark shares soar as Bitcoin miner announces AI expansion 2025-10-20 at 23:13 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Large Bitcoin mining companies are looking to expand into AI services for new sources of revenue amid the post-Bitcoin halving pressure. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

US shutdown enters third week as Senate Democrats plan crypto roundtable 2025-10-20 at 23:13 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar As the government drags on, the US Senate is preparing a vote to end it while lawmakers plan to meet crypto leaders Wednesday to discuss the stalled market structure bill. This article is an excerpt from…

Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout 2025-10-20 at 23:13 By Corey Quinn When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works column  “It’s always DNS” is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages…

Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection 2025-10-20 at 23:13 By Liam Proven Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users Someone managed to insert a compromised file into the downloads section of the website for Xubuntu, the official Ubuntu flavor with the Xfce desktop environment. The malware was designed to…

Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog — Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets 2025-10-20 at 23:12 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, officially confirming a recently disclosed vulnerability impacting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) has been weaponized in real-world…

Dozens of blind people can see thanks to revolutionary new microchip: ‘Never been done before’ 2025-10-20 at 21:57 By Tracy Swartz “Before receiving the implant, it was like having two black discs in my eyes, with the outside distorted,” said Sheila Irvine, one of the participants at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. This article is…

Jack Dorsey backs GOP Rep. Thomas Massie for president in surprise X post 2025-10-20 at 21:27 By Ariel Zilber The Twitter co-founder and Block CEO posted a six-word message on X on Saturday night: “.@RepThomasMassie for president.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source React to…

Price predictions 10/20: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, ADA, HYPE 2025-10-20 at 21:27 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin staged a rebound rally to $111,705 as the market recovers from last the recent catastrophic sell-off, but data suggests sellers will continue to take profit at each breakout top. This article is an…

Nvidia still needs Taiwan even as TSMC ramps Blackwell production in Arizona 2025-10-20 at 21:27 By Tobias Mann AI arms dealer relies on Taiwanese advanced packaging plants for top-specced GPUs US manufacturing of Nvidia GPUs is underway and CEO Jensen Huang is celebrating the first Blackwell wafer to come out of TSMC’s Arizona chip factory.…

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world’s biggest bit burglar 2025-10-20 at 20:45 By Jessica Lyons ‘US is … the greatest source of chaos in cyberspace’ China has blamed the US for a “major cyberattack” against its National Time Service Center, alleging it could have disrupted the country’s communications, financial, and transportation networks,…

Waymo robotaxis probed after reports of failing to stop for school buses 2025-10-20 at 20:11 By Reuters Alphabet-owned Waymo has more than 1,500 vehicles operating across major US cities. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source React to this headline:

Dogecoin price set for 25% jump after Elon Musk’s new cryptic DOGE post 2025-10-20 at 20:11 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Musk’s tweets ignited DOGE’s meteoric 2021 rally, and with bullish signals returning, the memecoin might be gearing up again. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Ripple-linked Evernorth to go public in $1B SPAC to build massive XRP treasury 2025-10-20 at 20:11 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The move could make Evernorth one of the first public companies to anchor its balance sheet in XRP, signaling growing institutional appetite for digital assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane 2025-10-20 at 20:11 By Dan Robinson Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location Analysis  Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region outage caused widespread chaos, taking websites and services offline even in Europe and raising some difficult questions. After all, cloud operations are supposed…

The Lourve Heist: What Was the State of the Museum’s Security? 2025-10-20 at 20:10 By The theft at the Lourve reveals the concerning state of museum security and the widespread repercussions that occur when that security fails.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this…

Amazon Web Services outage trolled as ‘rehearsal for the end of the internet’ with slew of memes 2025-10-20 at 18:43 By Ariel Zilber Posts mocked the meltdown with viral images including Homer Simpson warning “The End Is Near.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source React…

Solana founder brews up new perp DEX ‘Percolator’ 2025-10-20 at 18:43 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The plans for the new perpetual DEX come two months after a VanEck report highlighted Hyperliquid’s growth on the expense of Solana and other large chains. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

In ’90s Microsoft, you either shipped code or shipped out 2025-10-20 at 18:43 By Richard Speed Hiring and firing at the Windows giant more The Bachelor than Survivor Microsoft has made headlines for mass layoffs in recent times, but former company engineer Dave Plummer has explained how things were done a quarter of a century…

Wikipedia blames ChatGPT for falling traffic — and claims bots are stealing its hard work 2025-10-20 at 17:11 By Ben Cost Wikipedia is seeing a sharp decline in traffic as online users increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google AI overviews to get their info. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New…

Michael Saylor’s Strategy takes another small step toward 700K Bitcoin 2025-10-20 at 17:10 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz After its latest modest purchase, Michael Saylor’s Strategy has 59,582 BTC to go before hitting 700,000 BTC on its balance sheet. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

New film ‘Code is Law’ explores moral quandary behind crypto hacks 2025-10-20 at 17:10 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Brogan James Craig and Louis Giles’ new film “Code Is Law” examines infamous crypto hacks and the moral reckoning used by the perpetrators. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Decentralized science will bring the brain onchain 2025-10-20 at 17:10 By Cointelegraph by Andreas Melhede Brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink concentrate mental control in corporate hands. Decentralized science offers shared governance over neural data. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline: