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Gutter Cat Gang token sale marred by ‘technical issues,’ reportedly low interest 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Non-fungible token (NFT) project Gutter Cat Gang (GCG) saw a rocky token launch of its GANG token on Apechain on March 31, attributed to a “technical issue” by a third party, though others pointed to […]

SpaceX flight bankrolled by crypto investor launches first manned polar orbit 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sent a crew of four private astronauts on the first manned space flight to orbit the Earth’s poles, in a mission bankrolled and led by a wealthy crypto investor. Chun Wang, the […]

Bitcoin price gearing up for next leg of ‘acceleration phase’ — Fidelity research 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Big Smokey A recent Fidelity Digital Assets report questioned whether Bitcoin price had already seen its cyclical “blow off top” or if BTC (BTC) is on the cusp of another “acceleration phase.”  According to Fidelity analyst […]

Apple Fined €150 Million by French Regulator Over Discriminatory ATT Consent Practices 2025-04-01 at 09:02 By Apple has been hit with a fine of €150 million ($162 million) by France’s competition watchdog over the implementation of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework. The Autorité de la concurrence said it’s imposing a financial penalty against […]

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ 2025-04-01 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood How about making sure Windows crashes less, and stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that […]

Vanuatu passes long-awaited crypto laws that won’t be ‘light touch’ 2025-04-01 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Vanuatu has passed laws to regulate digital assets and provide a licensing regime for crypto companies wanting to operate in the Pacific island nation, which a government regulatory consultant has called “very stringent.”  The local parliament passed […]

zkLend hacker claims losing stolen ETH to Tornado Cash phishing site 2025-04-01 at 07:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte The hacker behind the $9.6 million exploit of the decentralized money-lending protocol zkLend in February claims they’ve just fallen victim to a phishing website impersonating Tornado Cash, resulting in the loss of a significant portion of […]

Coinbase CEO calls for change in stablecoin laws to enable ‘onchain interest’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Cointelegraph by Jody McDonald Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is calling for legislative changes in the US to allow stablecoin holders to earn “onchain interest” on their holdings. In a March 31 post on X, Armstrong argued that crypto companies […]

SIR.trading begs hacker to return $255K or ‘no chance for us to survive’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The founder of the recently hacked decentralized finance protocol SIR.trading has made an emotional plea to the attacker, asking them to return around 70% of the stolen customer funds otherwise, the protocol will not […]

Intel’s latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: ‘You deserve better’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Tobias Mann OK, AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 … Intel’s newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn […]

Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket 2025-04-01 at 05:32 By Jessica Lyons ‘They went silent and secured the images,’ Jeremiah Fowler tells El Reg Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – […]

Privacy Pools launch on Ethereum, with Vitalik demoing the feature 2025-04-01 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea A new semi-permissionless privacy tool, Privacy Pools, has launched on Ethereum, allowing users to transact privately while proving their funds aren’t linked to illicit activities. The privacy tool, launched by Ethereum builders 0xbow.io on March 31, earned […]

CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw 2025-04-01 at 04:21 By Iain Thomson Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US […]

Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes 2025-04-01 at 02:32 By Iain Thomson Indiana Uni rm -rf online profile while agents haul boxes of evidence A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.… This article […]