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Agentic AI in the SOC – Dawn of Autonomous Alert Triage 2025-04-08 at 14:19 By Security Operations Centers (SOCs) today face unprecedented alert volumes and increasingly sophisticated threats. Triaging and investigating these alerts are costly, cumbersome, and increases analyst fatigue, burnout, and attrition. While artificial intelligence has emerged as a go-to solution, the term “AI” […]

UAC-0226 Deploys GIFTEDCROOK Stealer via Malicious Excel Files Targeting Ukraine 2025-04-08 at 14:19 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has revealed a new set of cyber attacks targeting Ukrainian institutions with information-stealing malware. The activity is aimed at military formations, law enforcement agencies, and local self-government bodies, particularly those located near Ukraine’s […]

Bitcoin may rival gold as inflation hedge over next decade — Adam Back 2025-04-08 at 14:06 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Bitcoin could begin to take market share from gold over the next decade as a hedge against inflation and geopolitical uncertainty, according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back. Speaking during a fireside chat with Cointelegraph […]

Panicked Bitcoiner mistakenly pays over $70K of BTC in fees 2025-04-08 at 14:06 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski One presumably panicked Bitcoin user paid nearly 0.75 BTC ($70,500) in a replace-by-fee (RBF) transaction fee. The transaction in question was sent about 30 minutes after midnight UTC on April 8. It was the second attempt at […]

Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power 2025-04-08 at 13:58 By Brandon Vigliarolo Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth You’ve perhaps heard of using Moon dirt for building roads and other structures for future lunar explorers. […]

You’re brushing your teeth all wrong — this $299 ‘smart’ toothbrush cleans them all at once 2025-04-08 at 13:26 By Tracy Swartz “It’s not just about white, straight teeth anymore, it’s about overall health,” Dr. Kenny Brown, Feno’s CEO and co-founder, told The Post. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product […]

Cathie Wood’s ARK bags $26M in Coinbase shares, unloads Bitcoin ETF 2025-04-08 at 13:26 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Cathie Wood’s investment firm ARK Invest is showing a mixed reaction to the United States’ latest trade tariffs, offloading shares of its spot Bitcoin ETF while increasing its position in Coinbase. ARK has acquired $26.6 million […]

IBM’s z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance 2025-04-08 at 12:34 By Dan Robinson Who wouldn’t want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can’t solve for Trump tariffs) IBM’s latest mainframe builds on the platform’s traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support […]

CISA Adds CrushFTP Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Following Confirmed Active Exploitation 2025-04-08 at 12:34 By A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting CrushFTP has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after reports emerged of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability is a […]

Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash 2025-04-08 at 11:39 By Lindsay Clark Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit Despite ambitions to position itself as a science and tech superpower, the UK has cut the budget for the government body responsible for university […]

The gold standard is back — Stablecoins need to rethink what ‘backing’ really means 2025-04-08 at 11:22 By Cointelegraph by William Campbell Opinion by: William Campbell, advisory lead at USDKG Stablecoins were heralded as a breakthrough in the cryptocurrency space as a way to marry the lightning-fast, borderless nature of digital assets with the stability […]

UK data watchdog seeks fresh blood as more complaints lie unanswered for up to a year 2025-04-08 at 10:56 By Connor Jones Multiple red-rated performance metrics blamed on inability to answer rising numbers of data protection worries The UK’s data protection watchdog is recruiting more warm bodies to tackle its red-rated backlog of unresolved complaints.… […]

China’s tariff response may mean more capital flight to crypto: Hayes 2025-04-08 at 10:18 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young China’s response to America’s sweeping trade tariffs could result in capital flight to Bitcoin and crypto, according to BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes. “If not the Fed [Federal Reserve], then the PBOC [People’s Bank of China] will […]

Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying 2025-04-08 at 09:48 By Simon Sharwood Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe’s anti-fraud org isn’t probing European authorities last week charged eight people with offenses including corruption and money laundering linked to the European Parliament – and perhaps also to […]

US to get its first XRP-based ETF, launching on NYSE Arca 2025-04-08 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Asset manager Teucrium Investment Advisors is set to launch the first XRP-based exchange-traded fund in the US markets, a leveraged XRP (ETF) on the NYSE Arca. The Teucrium 2x Long Daily XRP ETF will seek to […]