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Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning 2025-05-06 at 18:17 By Lindsay Clark Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it’s ‘the right thing’ for US Palantir, the controversial US surveillance and analytics firm, says it welcomes scrutiny of government spending by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the controversial cost-cutting […]

Dem lawmakers object to hearing, citing ‘Trump’s crypto corruption’ 2025-05-06 at 18:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Representative Maxine Waters, ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), led Democratic lawmakers out of a joint hearing on digital assets in response to what she called “the corruption of the President of the United States” […]

Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win 2025-05-06 at 17:18 By Tobias Mann Feldman calls US’s AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’ Cerebras Systems’ dinner-plate-sized chips currently power the latest AI inference offerings from Meta and, soon, those of IBM, but US trade policy weighs heavy on its prospects worldwide.… […]

Ransomware Attacks Declined in April — Why? 2025-05-06 at 17:18 By Research found less ransomware attacks in April compared to to previous months in 2025.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Learn How We’re Making It Safer to Work in a Connected World 2025-05-06 at 17:03 By Tobias Pischl We’ve been named a Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Data Security This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

New Investment Scams Use Facebook Ads, RDGA Domains, and IP Checks to Filter Victims 2025-05-06 at 17:02 By Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on two threat actors that orchestrate investment scams through spoofed celebrity endorsements and conceal their activity through traffic distribution systems (TDSes). The activity clusters have been codenamed Reckless Rabbit and Ruthless […]

FTC Findings Show That Consumers Lost 470 Million to Text Scams 2025-05-06 at 16:46 By Recent data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that consumers lost $470 million to text message-based scams. This amount is five times higher than what was reported in 2020. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS […]

Windows 11 24H2 now ‘broadly available’ … complete with yet another ‘known issue’ 2025-05-06 at 16:19 By Richard Speed Azure Virtual Desktop App attach users might want to sit this one out for a bit longer Microsoft is celebrating the milestone of Windows 11 24H2 reaching broad availability with… yet another “known issue.” This time, […]

Bitcoin risks sub-$92K retest as BTC price fails to match 4% gold gains 2025-05-06 at 16:04 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Key points: Bitcoin is struggling again as gold retakes the limelight with week-to-date gains of nearly 5%. Bitcoin’s correlation with gold is under scrutiny amid ongoing macroeconomic shifts. Traders see a short-term slump amid […]

30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world 2025-05-06 at 15:45 By Lindsay Clark From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other Before Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – […]

Third Parties and Machine Credentials: The Silent Drivers Behind 2025’s Worst Breaches 2025-05-06 at 15:18 By It wasn’t ransomware headlines or zero-day exploits that stood out most in this year’s Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) — it was what fueled them. Quietly, yet consistently, two underlying factors played a role in some of […]

Bitcoin price forms two BTC futures gaps after Coinbase premium flips negative 2025-05-06 at 15:02 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s Coinbase premium index turned negative for the first time in 15 days, indicating defensive short-term sentiment among US investors. Bitcoin CME futures gaps between support at $92,000-$92,500 and resistance at $96,400-$97,400 suggest […]

How much Bitcoin can Berkshire Hathaway buy? 2025-05-06 at 15:02 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Key takeaways: Berkshire holds $347B in cash, enough to buy ~18% of Bitcoin’s supply. Greg Abel has not signaled a shift from Warren Buffett’s anti-Bitcoin stance. Berkshire already has indirect crypto exposure via Nu Holdings, Jefferies. Warren Buffett announced at […]