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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

Wintermute boss denies plans to sue Binance over the Oct. 10 crash 2025-11-04 at 07:55 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Market maker Wintermute has shot down rumors suggesting it plans to sue Binance in relation to a flash crash last month, when Bitcoin fell 15.2% to below $103,000. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

AN0M, the backdoored ‘secure’ messaging app for criminals, is still producing arrests after four years 2025-11-04 at 07:55 By Simon Sharwood 55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community.… This

LLMs are lousy at reading Asian languages, finds Singapore’s Grab 2025-11-04 at 07:55 By Simon Sharwood Superapp company that chased Uber away built its own model to do the job right Proprietary large language models are bad at interpreting Asian languages, according to Singaporean super-app company Grab, which has built its own model instead.… This

Ransomware negotiator, pay thyself! 2025-11-04 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Rogues committed extortion while working for infosec firms A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS 2025-11-04 at 04:32 By Thomas Claburn Even AI has doubts about the claim that ‘80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven’ Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that eyebrow-raising claim after

Ripple buys Palisade as it tips corporations to drive crypto adoption 2025-11-04 at 04:27 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Ripple has added to its recent run of acquisitions, buying the crypto wallet and custody firm Palisade in a bid to boost its offerings to institutions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

Cipher Mining rockets 32% after $5.5B data center deal with Amazon 2025-11-04 at 03:36 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Fellow miner IREN also signed a multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft worth $9.7 billion on Monday. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Cisco suggests a stubby chassis, shrunken servers and router, to tame the edge 2025-11-04 at 03:27 By Simon Sharwood ‘Unified Edge’ designed so even retail workers can replace a server Cisco entered the server market in 2009 because the company thought incumbent vendors weren’t satisfying customers. On Monday, the networking giant entered the edge infrastructure

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all 2025-11-04 at 03:05 By Thomas Claburn If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way Palantir CEO Alex Karp used his quarterly shareholder letter to take aim at critics after the company beat Q3 2025 earnings estimates.… This article is an excerpt

Crypto whale who nailed the October crash opens $55M BTC and ETH longs 2025-11-04 at 02:29 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea HyperUnit, the whale that made $200 million from the US-China tariff crash last month, is now betting on a rebound in Bitcoin and Ether, opening $55 million in long positions. This article is an

Google yanks Gemma after US senator says model ‘hallucinated’ her committing crimes 2025-11-04 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Still available via API, the developer-facing AI isn’t even really designed to answer general-purpose questions If Google’s Gemma were an employee, it might be facing HR right now. The company yanked the model from AI Studio after

AWS, Nvidia, Crowdstrike seek security startups to enter the arena 2025-11-03 at 22:20 By Jessica Lyons Last year’s winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation Cloud and AI security startups have two weeks to apply for a program that fast-tracks access to investors and mentors from Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia.…

Coin Center files brief in Ethereum MEV trial, disputes ‘honest validation’ theory 2025-11-03 at 22:12 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The advocacy organization filed a brief opposing prosecutors’ arguments that two brothers presented themselves as “honest validators” to allegedly pull off a $25-million exploit. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ethereum Foundation revamps grants program under new funding approach 2025-11-03 at 22:12 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Grants will now be distributed through a wishlist and requests for proposals, aligning funding with the Ethereum ecosystem’s goals. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

OpenAI strikes 7-year, $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon Web Services 2025-11-03 at 21:35 By Ariel Zilber OpenAI has come to terms on a massive 7-year, $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services to secure cloud computing capabilities needed to power its suite of advanced AI tools such as ChatGPT and Sora. The deal which

Price predictions 11/3: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, HYPE 2025-11-03 at 21:19 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin and altcoin’s early November performance mirrors October, where the market ignored historicals and fell to new lows. Will bulls show any interest in buying the range lows? This article is an excerpt from

Ripple launches crypto spot prime brokerage services 2025-11-03 at 21:19 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright As Ripple’s Swell conference kicked off in New York this week, the company announced an expansion of OTC services following its October acquisition of a prime broker. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Alaska Air phones a friend to find out what caused massive October outage 2025-11-03 at 21:19 By Richard Speed Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline’s IT infrastructure Alaska Airlines has called in consultants to advise it on what went wrong during a late October IT meltdown that grounded flights and wreaked havoc for two

OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal 2025-11-03 at 21:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI’s for-profit transformation OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute