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Microsoft’s ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Richard Speed Pixels of the past ‘created just for fun’ The pifmgr.dll still lingers in modern Windows installations – a throwback to a simpler and blockier time, according to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen.… This article is an excerpt from The…

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Richard Speed Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk’s rocketeers NASA’s Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for…

Securing AI to Benefit from AI 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can’t match. But realizing that potential…

Fed mulls ‘skinny’ payment accounts to open rails for fintech, crypto firms 2025-10-21 at 19:12 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Industry watchers welcomed the idea of “skinny” master accounts as another sign of the end of crypto’s banking troubles, in what insiders describe as “Operation Chokepoint 2.0.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News…

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists 2025-10-21 at 19:05 By Carly Page Amazon’s hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos When Amazon’s cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn’t just take down some of the world’s most popular apps –…

Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no 2025-10-21 at 18:56 By Tim Anderson 24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI’s impact on developer tools and programming language trends – including the claim that PHP and Ruby…

Andrew Cuomo’s crypto Hail Mary unlikely to give an edge over Mamdani 2025-10-21 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood As the New York mayor’s race draws to a culmination, Andrew Cuomo has developed a crypto and AI strategy for the city. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams 2025-10-21 at 18:03 By Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an…

California just drew the line between crypto and cash: Here’s why it matters 2025-10-21 at 18:00 By Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya California’s SB 822 ends forced crypto sell-offs and requires holders to send in-kind transfers of unclaimed crypto to the state, promoting stronger consumer rights. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough 2025-10-21 at 17:01 By Liam Proven Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft’s file system for penguin-powered PCs Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.… This article is…

PolarEdge Targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, Synology Routers in Expanding Botnet Campaign 2025-10-21 at 16:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge. PolarEdge was first documented by Sekoia in February 2025, attributing it to a campaign targeting routers from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology with the goal…

How to use Grok 4 for smarter crypto research before you invest 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Cointelegraph by Liza Savenko Turn social hype into smart signals with Grok 4: scan sentiment, summarize fundamentals and confirm onchain data before investing. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Ethereum fails again above $4K as traders grow frustrated with shakeouts 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Ether ran into resistance at $4,000 as the absence of new buyers and weak spot Ethereum flows threatened ETH price dropping to $3,100 next. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

Crypto, Fintech push back against banks’ war on open banking 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation and fintech allies urged the CFPB to finalize an open banking rule ensuring consumers, not banks, control their data. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source…

Feds flag active exploitation of patched Windows SMB vuln 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Carly Page CISA adds high-severity flaw to KEV list, urges swift updating Uncle Sam’s cyber wardens have warned that a high-severity flaw in Microsoft’s Windows SMB client is now being actively exploited – months after it was patched.… This article is an…

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Tim Anderson DevOps guru and ex-Googler say vibes beat reading diffs but there are risks “Accept All. Always. Don’t read the diffs anymore.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

A shot in the dark: Can malware vaccines stop ransomware’s rampage? 2025-10-21 at 13:47 By Mary-Ann Russon Security pros explore whether infection-spoofing code can immunize Windows systems against attack Feature  What’s better, prevention or cure? For a long time the global cybersecurity industry has operated by reacting to attacks and computer viruses. But given that…

US political turmoil tests ‘institutional confidence’ as crypto ETFs bleed 2025-10-21 at 11:29 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas The outflows came as “No Kings” protests swept across the US amid a prolonged government shutdown and political division, deepening market risk aversion. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

Mobian makes Debian’s latest ‘Trixie’ release pocket-sized 2025-10-21 at 11:29 By Liam Proven Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the options The latest version of Mobian, an edition of Debian aimed at mobile devices, is here, based on Debian 13 “Trixie”.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React…

Anti-fraud body leaks dozens of email addresses in invite mishap 2025-10-21 at 11:29 By Joe Fay Calendar cock-up exposed recipients’ details Anti-fraud nonprofit Cifas was left red-faced after sending out a calendar invite that exposed the email addresses of dozens of individuals working across the fraud space.… This article is an excerpt from The Register…

Google Identifies Three New Russian Malware Families Created by COLDRIVER Hackers 2025-10-21 at 11:28 By A new malware attributed to the Russia-linked hacking group known as COLDRIVER has undergone numerous developmental iterations since May 2025, suggesting an increased “operations tempo” from the threat actor. The findings come from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), which said…

Hackers Used Snappybee Malware and Citrix Flaw to Breach European Telecom Network 2025-10-21 at 11:28 By A European telecommunications organization is said to have been targeted by a threat actor that aligns with a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Salt Typhoon. The organization, per Darktrace, was targeted in the first week of July 2025,…

‘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…