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Legacy tech blunts UK top cops’ fight against serious crime, inspectors find 2025-09-09 at 11:15 By Lindsay Clark Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency’s efficiency and effectiveness The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) clings to legacy systems and relies on an IT strategy that lacks clarity, a policing watchdog has found.… This […]

Microsoft veteran’s worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS 2025-09-09 at 10:22 By Richard Speed Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has come clean and admitted that the worst bug he ever shipped was in… Pinball.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

20 Popular npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Compromised in Supply Chain Attack 2025-09-09 at 10:22 By Multiple npm packages have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack after a maintainer’s account was compromised in a phishing attack. The attack targeted Josh Junon (aka Qix), who received an email message that […]

US Congress seeks report ironing out details of Bitcoin reserve 2025-09-09 at 10:00 By Cointelegraph by Tarang Khaitan If enacted, the Treasury Department will be required to produce a report on how the US strategic Bitcoin reserve would be custodied and kept safe. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ant Digital is putting $8B in energy assets on the blockchain: Report 2025-09-09 at 09:46 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Jack Ma’s Ant Digital is tokenizing billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese energy assets on AntChain, with plans to list the tokens on offshore exchanges. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original […]

Auction giant Christie’s winds down NFT department: Report 2025-09-09 at 09:46 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Christie’s auction house is reportedly closing its digital art department, but will continue to auction NFTs under a broader category. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Fintech Eightco surges 3,000% after plan to amass Worldcoin 2025-09-09 at 09:46 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The largest corporate Ether holder, BitMine, backed Eightco Holdings’ $270 million plan to buy and hold the token of the eyeball-scanning crypto project Worldcoin. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content 2025-09-09 at 09:46 By Lindsay Clark Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad Tech companies will be legally required to prevent content involving self-harm from appearing on their platforms – rather than responding and removing it – in a planned […]

Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills 2025-09-09 at 08:03 By Simon Sharwood Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp Using AI may cause some of your skills atrophy, and your employer therefore needs to take steps to keep […]

ARK Invest buys $4.4M in BitMine stock as its treasury crosses 2M ETH 2025-09-09 at 07:59 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young ARK Invest purchased more than 100,000 Bitmine shares after the Ethereum treasury company reached a milestone in ETH holdings. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit launches Ethereum L2 2025-09-09 at 07:59 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea South Korean crypto exchange Upbit confirmed it has launched Giwa, an Ethereum layer 2 on testnet, focused on one-second block times and optimizing user experience. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free 2025-09-09 at 07:59 By Iain Thomson Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay […]