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Google curbs access to Gemma AI tech that falsely accused Sen. Marsha Blackburn of sexual misconduct 2025-11-03 at 20:05 By Thomas Barrabi Google has pulled its Gemma AI model offline after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) revealed that it had fabricated claims that she once faced allegations of sexual misconduct. This article is an excerpt from…

Hawkish Fed remarks drive $360M in crypto outflows but Solana ETFs shine 2025-11-03 at 20:05 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Investors trimmed exposure to Bitcoin funds amid US policy uncertainty, even as Bitwise’s new Solana staking ETF attracted strong debut inflows last week. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire 2025-11-03 at 20:05 By Dan Robinson The spending will continue until ROI improves Tech companies continue to sling crazy amounts of money at AI, with Microsoft announcing deals worth billions in Texas and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while Google parent Alphabet is selling bonds in…

Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo 2025-11-03 at 20:05 By Connor Jones Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age Cybercriminals are increasingly orchestrating lucrative cargo thefts alongside organized crime groups (OCGs) in a modern-day resurgence of attacks on freight companies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original…

Wikipedia co-founder blocks editing of ‘Gaza genocide’ page over ‘egregious’ anti-Israel claims 2025-11-03 at 19:09 By Ariel Zilber “At present, the lede and the overall presentation state…that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested,” Wales wrote. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source…

Ethereum’s price chart targets sub-$3K as spot ETF demand cools 2025-11-03 at 19:08 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Ethereum’s price risked a deeper correction toward $2,800 as institutional demand through ETH ETFs and treasury companies declined This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

How high can Dash price go if it copies Zcash in November? 2025-11-03 at 19:08 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Dash’s setup mirrors Zcash’s pre-breakout phase, hinting at a possible 400% rally if it breaks above a multiyear technical resistance zone. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this…

BTC miner IREN lands $9.7B Microsoft deal, accelerating industry pivot to GPUs 2025-11-03 at 19:08 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi IREN’s Microsoft partnership underscores how Bitcoin miners are reinventing themselves as AI infrastructure providers amid tightening margins. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Gullible bots struggle to distinguish between facts and beliefs 2025-11-03 at 19:08 By Lindsay Clark Researchers point to risks in high-stakes applications as well as the potential to spread misinformation Large language models often fail to distinguish between factual knowledge and personal belief, and are especially poor at recognizing when a belief is false.… This…

Tokenized Treasuries cross $8.6B as banks and exchanges push collateral use 2025-11-03 at 18:14 By Cointelegraph by Nick M Tokenized Treasuries have climbed to a capitalization of $8.63 billion as traders and banks begin using them for repo market financing. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

How the Trump family turned crypto into an $800M gold rush 2025-11-03 at 18:13 By Cointelegraph by Bradley Peak A clear guide to WLFI, the TRUMP memecoin and USD1, explaining how token sales, trading fees and treasury deals produced $802 million for Trump-linked ventures. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source…

Nasdaq issues warning to TON Strategy over $272M Toncoin purchase 2025-11-03 at 18:13 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Nasdaq has reprimanded TON Strategy for its $272.7 million Toncoin purchase and PIPE deal, citing missed shareholder approval rules. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports 2025-11-03 at 18:13 By Liam Proven Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026 Debian’s APT package manager will have a “hard requirement” on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.… This article is…

ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews 2025-11-03 at 18:13 By Richard Speed Help me, HOBI-WAN, you’re my only hope for lunch The European Space Agency (ESA) has coined a tortured acronym for its project to feed astronauts on long-duration missions: HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition).……

Cybercriminals Exploit Remote Monitoring Tools to Infiltrate Logistics and Freight Networks 2025-11-03 at 18:13 By Bad actors are increasingly training their sights on trucking and logistics companies with an aim to infect them with remote monitoring and management (RMM) software for financial gain and ultimately steal cargo freight. The threat cluster, believed to be active…

Michael Saylor’s Strategy kickstarts November with $45M Bitcoin buy 2025-11-03 at 15:57 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Strategy’s Bitcoin acquisition rate has been significantly down since September, threatening to limit Bitcoin’s price recovery. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

DeFi needs higher certainty, not higher yield 2025-11-03 at 15:57 By Cointelegraph by Robin Nordnes High yields mean nothing without execution certainty. Institutional DeFi adoption demands predictable transactions over speculative returns at scale. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Not all RWA growth is real, and the industry knows it 2025-11-03 at 15:57 By Cointelegraph by Aishwary Gupta Inflated dashboards don’t build institutional trust. Only verifiable assets, regulatory clarity and real usage can power the RWA revolution. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Agentic AI reshaping tech hiring policies, say CTOs and CIOs 2025-11-03 at 15:57 By Lindsay Clark Oh the irony: IEEE survey of senior techies finds demand for devs skills falling in AI-related roles Demand for software development skills in AI-related roles is set to fall next year as agentic AI accelerates across business markets, according…

Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests 2025-11-03 at 15:57 By Connor Jones But question marks remain over the tech’s biases London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says the hundreds of live facial recognition (LFR) deployments across the Capital last year led to 962 arrests, according to a new report on the…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Lazarus Hits Web3, Intel/AMD TEEs Cracked, Dark Web Leak Tool & More 2025-11-03 at 15:57 By Cyberattacks are getting smarter and harder to stop. This week, hackers used sneaky tools, tricked trusted systems, and quickly took advantage of new security problems—some just hours after being found. No system was fully safe. From…

The Evolution of SOC Operations: How Continuous Exposure Management Transforms Security Operations 2025-11-03 at 15:57 By Security Operations Centers (SOC) today are overwhelmed. Analysts handle thousands of alerts every day, spending much time chasing false positives and adjusting detection rules reactively. SOCs often lack the environmental context and relevant threat intelligence needed to quickly verify…

Researchers Uncover BankBot-YNRK and DeliveryRAT Android Trojans Stealing Financial Data 2025-11-03 at 14:05 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two different Android trojans called BankBot-YNRK and DeliveryRAT that are capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised devices. According to CYFIRMA, which analyzed three different samples of BankBot-YNRK, the malware incorporates features to sidestep analysis…

‘Not good’ for price: Bitcoin ETF demand starts to lag newly mined BTC 2025-11-03 at 13:46 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale The slowdown in institutional demand could be a factor in the cooling of Bitcoin’s bull run, adding further downward pressure on the BTC price. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

Retail investors ‘retreat’ to $98.5K: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-11-03 at 13:46 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin dropped another 2% to start November as network data warned of a potential BTC price dip below the $100,000 support level. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React…

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of ‘ruthless act of union busting’ after layoffs 2025-11-03 at 13:46 By Richard Speed Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching? The maker of the Grand Theft Auto game series, Rockstar Games, has fired more than 30 coders and graphic designers in an act described by the…

Pop!_OS deejays prepare to release holiday remix along with Cosmic v 1.0 2025-11-03 at 13:46 By Liam Proven Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat? Ubuntu Summit  System76’s POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was…

New HttpTroy Backdoor Poses as VPN Invoice in Targeted Cyberattack on South Korea 2025-11-03 at 13:46 By The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has distributed a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed HttpTroy as part of a likely spear-phishing attack targeting a single victim in South Korea. Gen Digital, which disclosed details of the activity,…

The race to shore up Europe’s power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage 2025-11-03 at 12:49 By Mary-Ann Russon Ukraine first to deploy open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement Feature  It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern…

Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds 2025-11-03 at 12:28 By Owen Hughes Boffins say outsourcing your homework leaves you sounding less knowledgeable, short on facts A study of how people use ChatGPT for research has confirmed something most of us learned the hard way in school: to be a subject matter…

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu 2025-11-03 at 12:28 By Liam Proven Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg Ubuntu Summit  The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a…

Without Bitcoin, what happens to Ether and XRP? 2025-11-03 at 10:41 By Cointelegraph by Liza Savenko What if Bitcoin crashes? Will Ether and XRP fall with it or hold their ground? Discover how a BTC slump could rattle the entire crypto market. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to…

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world 2025-11-03 at 10:41 By Paul Kunert Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed Opinion  It’s not been a year since his ouster as Intel’s CEO, but Pat Gelsinger is firmly back on the tech leadership pony. He’s done hardware with Intel,…

James Weston to Deliver Keynote at 2025 SECURITY 500 Conference 2025-11-03 at 09:10 By James Weston, Director, Global Security Liaison & IDL Security Advisor at McDonald’s Corporation, will deliver an afternoon keynote address at the SECURITY 500 Conference in Washington, D.C. this November. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed…

CZ denies he’s behind a proposal for a crypto private bank in Kyrgyzstan 2025-11-03 at 08:07 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov claims that Changpeng “CZ” Zhao proposed establishing a private bank that also deals in cryptocurrency. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

French MPs advance measure to tax crypto as ‘unproductive wealth’ 2025-11-03 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Lawmakers in France’s National Assembly have passed an amendment that would consider larger crypto holdings “unproductive wealth” and subject them to taxation. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land 2025-11-03 at 07:58 By Simon Sharwood It’s less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa African carrier Seacom is investigating the feasibility of building a submarine cable that would run across the heart of Africa, on land.… This article is an…