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AI’s trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI 2025-11-04 at 12:55 By Abhishek Jadhav How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff Feature  In late 2025, a series of multi-billion-dollar deals in the artificial intelligence sector is causing déjà vu among industry veterans. Money, computer […]

China’s president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones 2025-11-04 at 11:54 By Simon Sharwood South Korea’s president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China’s censorship and snooping Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Google Cloud suspended customer’s account three times, for three different reasons 2025-11-04 at 11:54 By Simon Sharwood Experience leads company boss to decide ‘I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases’ The founder of a service that manages SSL certificates says Google Cloud has suspended his account three times, without good

Microsoft Detects “SesameOp” Backdoor Using OpenAI’s API as a Stealth Command Channel 2025-11-04 at 11:54 By Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel backdoor dubbed SesameOp that uses OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface (API) for command-and-control (C2) communications. “Instead of relying on more traditional methods, the threat actor behind this backdoor abuses OpenAI as a

U.S. Prosecutors Indict Cybersecurity Insiders Accused of BlackCat Ransomware Attacks 2025-11-04 at 11:54 By Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have accused a trio of allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies with BlackCat (aka ALPHV) ransomware between May and November 2023 and extorting them. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, Kevin Tyler Martin, and an unnamed co–conspirator

Ministry of Defence’s F-35 blunder: £57B and counting 2025-11-04 at 11:30 By Dan Robinson Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being criticized for undermining its F-35 stealth fighter program through years of short-term budget decisions that have increased long-term costs and left the fleet understrength and

FTX drops ‘restricted countries’ motion but warns it may refile 2025-11-04 at 11:29 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz The FTX Recovery Trust dropped a motion to limit payouts to creditors in countries including China, which holds about $380 million in claims. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto liquidations hit $1.3B as Bitcoin price nosedives below $104K 2025-11-04 at 11:27 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Over $1.3 billion was wiped out across the crypto market as traders shifted their focus to $100,000 as the last line of defense for Bitcoin. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Panelists to Discuss Public-Private Partnerships at SECURITY 500 Conference 2025-11-04 at 11:13 By Security leaders will discuss the impact that public-private partnerships have on community security and public safety.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Bitcoin price gets $92K target as new buyers enter ‘capitulation’ mode 2025-11-04 at 10:58 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin gave up $104,000 for the first time in weeks, while traders warned of a return to sub-$100,000 levels and new buyers amassed unrealized losses. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Google’s AI ‘Big Sleep’ Finds 5 New Vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari WebKit 2025-11-04 at 10:10 By Google’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cybersecurity agent called Big Sleep has been credited by Apple for discovering as many as five different security flaws in the WebKit component used in its Safari web browser that, if successfully exploited, could result

Crypto sentiment nosedives to ‘extreme fear’ as Bitcoin drops under $106K 2025-11-04 at 07:55 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The Crypto Fear & Greed Index plummeted by 21 points to “Extreme Fear,” the lowest it’s been in seven months. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto czar David Sacks argues AI threat is Orwellian, not Terminator 2025-11-04 at 07:55 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby David Sacks warns that the real threat AI poses is when it is used for government surveillance and information control. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source