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Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run

Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run 2025-04-30 at 12:34 By Thomas Claburn Go ahead, please do Bash static analysis Shell scripting may finally get a proper bug-checker. A group of academics has proposed static analysis techniques aimed at improving the correctness and reliability of Unix shell programs.… […]

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Does UK’s Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends

Does UK’s Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends 2025-04-30 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Minister, platform providers disagree on whether law would have helped avoid last summer’s riots MPs heard a range of interpretations of UK law when it comes to the spread of misinformation online, a critical factor in the riots across

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Meta Launches LlamaFirewall Framework to Stop AI Jailbreaks, Injections, and Insecure Code

Meta Launches LlamaFirewall Framework to Stop AI Jailbreaks, Injections, and Insecure Code 2025-04-30 at 11:04 By Meta on Tuesday announced LlamaFirewall, an open-source framework designed to secure artificial intelligence (AI) systems against emerging cyber risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and insecure code, among others. The framework, the company said, incorporates three guardrails, including PromptGuard

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AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads

AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads 2025-04-30 at 10:37 By Simon Sharwood What? Why? It’s an update to its Outposts racks hybrid cloud rigs aimed at bankers and telcos Amazon Web services has created new elastic compute cloud instance types for its on-prem Outposts racks, the second generation of which was

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Ethereum ETF staking will have little impact without multimonth rally: Analyst

Ethereum ETF staking will have little impact without multimonth rally: Analyst 2025-04-30 at 10:01 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Key takeaways Approving staking for spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US may have a minimal impact on inflows unless Ether sees a sustained rally, says Eric Balchunas ETH dropped significantly in price after the

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TON’s Broxus launches blockchain app scalability platform TON Factory

TON’s Broxus launches blockchain app scalability platform TON Factory 2025-04-30 at 10:01 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas The Open Network (TON) ecosystem participant Broxus has unveiled TON Factory, a new platform designed to accelerate the development and scalability of high-throughput applications like decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and blockchain-based games. In an April 30 post on Telegram,

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30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI – especially the new stuff

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI – especially the new stuff 2025-04-30 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Satya Nadella reveals attempts to merge Word, PowerPoint and Excel – which may now succeed thanks to AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed about thirty percent of code in the company’s repositories was

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BlackRock files to create digital shares tracking one of its money market funds

BlackRock files to create digital shares tracking one of its money market funds 2025-04-30 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Asset manager BlackRock has filed to create digital ledger technology shares from one of the firm’s money market funds, which will leverage blockchain technology to maintain a mirror record of share ownership for investors.

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FTX sues NFT Stars and Kurosemi in push to recover tokens

FTX sues NFT Stars and Kurosemi in push to recover tokens 2025-04-30 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has filed lawsuits against the non-fungible token marketplace NFT Stars and the blockchain gaming firm Kurosemi, which operates as Delysium, accusing them of withholding tokens they owed. The lawsuits, both filed in

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SEC drops investigation into PayPal’s stablecoin

SEC drops investigation into PayPal’s stablecoin 2025-04-30 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young PayPal says the US Securities and Exchange Commission has abandoned its investigation into the payment giant’s US-dollar stablecoin. PayPal said in an April 29 regulatory filing that the SEC concluded its investigation into PayPal USD (PYUSD) and wouldn’t be taking any

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Indian Court Orders Action to Block Proton Mail Over AI Deepfake Abuse Allegations

Indian Court Orders Action to Block Proton Mail Over AI Deepfake Abuse Allegations 2025-04-30 at 09:02 By A high court in the Indian state of Karnataka has ordered the blocking of end-to-end encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country. The High Court of Karnataka, on April 29, said the ruling was in response to

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Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff

Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff 2025-04-30 at 08:24 By Simon Sharwood And of course – sigh – they look like women with long blonde hair Chinese carmaker Chery has started using its own humanoid robots as sales staff in its showrooms.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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US Treasury’s OFAC can’t restore Tornado Cash sanctions, judge rules

US Treasury’s OFAC can’t restore Tornado Cash sanctions, judge rules 2025-04-30 at 08:04 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control can’t restore or reimpose sanctions against the crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, a US federal court has ruled. Austin federal court judge Robert Pitman said in an April

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Strategy’s Bitcoin buys should be ‘super careless’ to pump price — Exec

Strategy’s Bitcoin buys should be ‘super careless’ to pump price — Exec 2025-04-30 at 07:05 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Key takeaways: Richard Byworth says Michael Saylor’s Strategy could ramp up its Bitcoin buys by acquiring cash-rich companies and converting their cash into Bitcoin. He says that Strategy should consider accelerating purchases as the Bitcoin

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Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans

Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans 2025-04-30 at 06:45 By Simon Sharwood Yet more strife for server-maker sees its share price slump by 15 percent Supermicro shares slumped 15 percent in after-hours trading as the company warned next week’s quarterly results will see it miss forecast revenue by up to

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Australia’s finance watchdog to crack down on dormant crypto exchanges

Australia’s finance watchdog to crack down on dormant crypto exchanges 2025-04-30 at 06:03 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Australia’s financial intelligence agency has told inactive registered crypto exchanges to withdraw their registrations or risk having them canceled over fears that the dormant firms could be used for scams. There are currently 427 crypto exchanges registered

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Ledger scammers are sending letters to steal seed phrases

Ledger scammers are sending letters to steal seed phrases 2025-04-30 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Scammers are mailing physical letters to the owners of Ledger crypto hardware wallets asking them to validate their private seed phrases in a bid to access the wallets to clean them out. In an April 29 X post,

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