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All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup 2025-12-17 at 21:47 By Tobias Mann Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year Amid the AI boom, nuclear power is in vogue, with venture capitalists lining up to plow hundreds of millions into small modular reactor (SMR) […]

Binance mulls new US strategy, CZ potentially reducing stake: Report 2025-12-17 at 21:06 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Binance exited the United States in 2019, and a separate company, Binance.US, has been serving US customers since that time. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks 2025-12-17 at 21:06 By A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf has enlisted a massive army of no less than 1.8 million infected devices comprising Android-based TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, and may be associated with another botnet known as AISURU, according

SonicWall Fixes Actively Exploited CVE-2025-40602 in SMA 100 Appliances 2025-12-17 at 21:06 By SonicWall has rolled out fixes to address a security flaw in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40602 (CVSS score: 6.6), concerns a case of local privilege

Meta’s billionaire AI star Alexandr Wang thinks boss Mark Zuckerberg’s micromanaging is ‘suffocating’: report 2025-12-17 at 20:23 By Ariel Zilber Behind the scenes, Wang has complained to associates that Zuckerberg’s tight grip on the effort is stifling progress, the Financial Times reported. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post

New Mexico AG rips Instagram for claiming PG-13 rating system protects kids: ‘Dangerous promotional stunt’ 2025-12-17 at 20:02 By Thomas Barrabi Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is facing new heat over claims that teenage Instagram users will be protected from online harm by a PG-13 rating system – with New Mexico attorney general Raul Torrez blasting the

Silvergate Bank lawsuit calls for FTX, Alameda clients to weigh in on $10M settlement 2025-12-17 at 20:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright More than 46,000 claimants could potentially receive a payout from a court-approved settlement involving the FTX-tied Silvergate Bank, which shuttered in 2023. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

GitHub is going to start charging you for using your own hardware 2025-12-17 at 19:37 By Brandon Vigliarolo Engineers cry foul over plan to charge $0.002/min for self-hosted Actions runners GitHub customers, take notice: Come March, the Microsoft-owned repository host will begin charging for some uses of self-hosted Actions runners.… This article is an excerpt

Key Signs of Mental Health Struggles in Security 2025-12-17 at 19:13 By John Rodriguez, Founder of Empathic Security Cultures LLC, shares why mental health is so crucial in security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

NASA tries savin’ MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth 2025-12-17 at 18:47 By Richard Speed Spacecraft was ‘rotating in an unexpected manner’ and might have shifted orbit NASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack 2025-12-17 at 18:25 By Connor Jones Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings In proposing a settlement agreement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that Illusory Systems must repay users funds lost in a 2022 cyberattack.… This article is an excerpt

Bitcoin tags $90K as crypto market spike liquidates $120M shorts 2025-12-17 at 18:04 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin took out liquidity at the Wall Street open as a move above $90,000 was followed by a snap retracement, liquidating late long and short entries. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Kyrgyzstan’s USDKG shows how real-asset stablecoins are evolving in emerging markets 2025-12-17 at 18:04 By Cointelegraph by Bradley Peak Kyrgyzstan’s USDKG blends a USD peg with a gold reserve claim. Here’s what it signals for emerging markets and what to verify next. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2025-12-17 at 18:04 By Thomas Claburn CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers Generating code using AI increases the number of issues that need to be reviewed and the severity of those issues.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

APT28 Targets Ukrainian UKR-net Users in Long-Running Credential Phishing Campaign 2025-12-17 at 17:47 By The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 has been attributed to what has been described as a “sustained” credential-harvesting campaign targeting users of UKR[.]net, a webmail and news service popular in Ukraine. The activity, observed by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group

New ForumTroll Phishing Attacks Target Russian Scholars Using Fake eLibrary Emails 2025-12-17 at 17:47 By The threat actor linked to Operation ForumTroll has been attributed to a fresh set of phishing attacks targeting individuals within Russia, according to Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity vendor said it detected the new activity in October 2025. The origins of

Have We Reached a Public Cloud Tipping Point? ​ 2025-12-17 at 17:31 By Sunjeet Randhawa Part 1 of 2: Escalating outages in 2025, combined with evolving security risks, are causing more organizations to rethink their cloud strategy This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source