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Trump says TikTok sale deal to be announced before Saturday deadline 2025-03-31 at 19:14 By Thomas Barrabi President Trump said he expects to announce terms on a deal with TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to sell the popular video-sharing app before a looming deadline takes effect this Saturday. This article is an excerpt from Latest […]

March 2025 in charts: Trump trade war hits Bitcoin, $22M in DeFi hacks 2025-03-31 at 19:14 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood March was a rough month for markets — US President Donald Trump’s uncertain tariff policies created volatility in Bitcoin and crypto markets; meanwhile, decentralized finance (DeFi) struggled with security concerns. Retaliatory tariffs on US […]

Memecoins 2.0: The market crashed, but the billion-dollar circus rolls on 2025-03-31 at 19:14 By Cointelegraph by Igor Zemtsov Opinion by: Igor Zemtsov, chief technology officer at TBCC Following “Libragate,” memecoin prices crashed, with their market cap falling nearly 60% from 2025’s highs. But meme tokens, dead? They’ve got more lives than a cat on […]

AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday 2025-03-31 at 18:52 By Dan Robinson Silicon Valley’s latest energy fixation won’t stop the coming power panic Analysis  Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won’t […]

LLM providers on the cusp of an ‘extinction’ phase as capex realities bite 2025-03-31 at 17:40 By Lindsay Clark Only the strong will survive, but analyst says cull will not be as rapid as during dotcom era Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase […]

XRP bulls in ‘denial’ as price trend mirrors previous 75-90% crashes 2025-03-31 at 17:07 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola XRP (XRP) has lost more than 40% since hitting a multi-year high near $3.40 in January, and onchain data suggests the downtrend could deepen in the weeks ahead. “Denial” preceding past 75-90% XRP crashes is back […]

BNB Chain catches memecoin wave as Solana wipes out 2025-03-31 at 17:07 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun BNB Chain, the EVM-compatible network tied to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, is experiencing a resurgence in the decentralized finance (DeFi) and memecoin spaces just as some of its rivals face an identity crisis. For most of 2024 and into […]

NFT marketplace X2Y2 shuts down after 3 years, pivots to AI 2025-03-31 at 17:07 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace X2Y2 announced it is shutting down after three years of operation. According to a March 31 announcement, X2Y2 will shut down on April 30, with the team switching its focus to an […]

Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole 2025-03-31 at 16:49 By Richard Speed Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other Windows Insiders will soon get their hands on Microsoft’s attempt to ward off another CrowdStrike incident, and the company is also closing a loophole for users who don’t want a […]

Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images 2025-03-31 at 16:49 By Threat actors are using the “mu-plugins” directory in WordPress sites to conceal malicious code with the goal of maintaining persistent remote access and redirecting site visitors to bogus sites. mu-plugins, short for must-use plugins, refers to plugins in a special […]

Ethereum price down almost 50% since Eric Trump’s ‘add ETH’ endorsement 2025-03-31 at 16:12 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH) has lost almost half its value two months after Eric Trump, son of US President Donald Trump, told his 5.7 million followers that it was a “great time” to add the […]

Nvidia’s latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you’re a data scientist with $3,000 to spare 2025-03-31 at 16:12 By Dan Robinson But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone? Analysis  Disrupt? It’s an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to use.… This article […]

Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid 2025-03-31 at 15:18 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there’s no escape Opinion  I was going to write a story about how Amazon is no longer even pretending to respect your privacy. But, really, why bother?… This article […]

Stablecoins, tokenized assets gain as Trump tariffs loom 2025-03-31 at 15:07 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Cryptocurrency investors are increasingly moving capital into stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) in a bid to avoid volatility ahead of US President Donald Trump’s widely anticipated tariff announcement on April 2. Increasingly more capital is flowing into stablecoins […]