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SpaceX flight bankrolled by crypto investor launches first manned polar orbit 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sent a crew of four private astronauts on the first manned space flight to orbit the Earth’s poles, in a mission bankrolled and led by a wealthy crypto investor. Chun Wang, the […]

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Bitcoin price gearing up for next leg of ‘acceleration phase’ — Fidelity research 2025-04-01 at 09:03 By Cointelegraph by Big Smokey A recent Fidelity Digital Assets report questioned whether Bitcoin price had already seen its cyclical “blow off top” or if BTC (BTC) is on the cusp of another “acceleration phase.”  According to Fidelity analyst

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Apple Fined €150 Million by French Regulator Over Discriminatory ATT Consent Practices 2025-04-01 at 09:02 By Apple has been hit with a fine of €150 million ($162 million) by France’s competition watchdog over the implementation of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework. The Autorité de la concurrence said it’s imposing a financial penalty against

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Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ 2025-04-01 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood How about making sure Windows crashes less, and stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that

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Vanuatu passes long-awaited crypto laws that won’t be ‘light touch’ 2025-04-01 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Vanuatu has passed laws to regulate digital assets and provide a licensing regime for crypto companies wanting to operate in the Pacific island nation, which a government regulatory consultant has called “very stringent.”  The local parliament passed

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zkLend hacker claims losing stolen ETH to Tornado Cash phishing site 2025-04-01 at 07:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte The hacker behind the $9.6 million exploit of the decentralized money-lending protocol zkLend in February claims they’ve just fallen victim to a phishing website impersonating Tornado Cash, resulting in the loss of a significant portion of

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Coinbase CEO calls for change in stablecoin laws to enable ‘onchain interest’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Cointelegraph by Jody McDonald Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is calling for legislative changes in the US to allow stablecoin holders to earn “onchain interest” on their holdings. In a March 31 post on X, Armstrong argued that crypto companies

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SIR.trading begs hacker to return $255K or ‘no chance for us to survive’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The founder of the recently hacked decentralized finance protocol SIR.trading has made an emotional plea to the attacker, asking them to return around 70% of the stolen customer funds otherwise, the protocol will not

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Intel’s latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: ‘You deserve better’ 2025-04-01 at 06:08 By Tobias Mann OK, AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 … Intel’s newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn

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Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket 2025-04-01 at 05:32 By Jessica Lyons ‘They went silent and secured the images,’ Jeremiah Fowler tells El Reg Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet –

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Privacy Pools launch on Ethereum, with Vitalik demoing the feature 2025-04-01 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea A new semi-permissionless privacy tool, Privacy Pools, has launched on Ethereum, allowing users to transact privately while proving their funds aren’t linked to illicit activities. The privacy tool, launched by Ethereum builders 0xbow.io on March 31, earned

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CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw 2025-04-01 at 04:21 By Iain Thomson Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US

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Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes 2025-04-01 at 02:32 By Iain Thomson Indiana Uni rm -rf online profile while agents haul boxes of evidence A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.… This article

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North Korean crypto attacks rising in sophistication, actors — Paradigm 2025-04-01 at 02:01 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino North Korean cyberwarfare attacks on the cryptocurrency industry are growing in sophistication and in the number of groups involved in such criminal activity, crypto firm Paradigm warns in report titled “Demystifying the North Korean Threat.” North Korea-originated

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Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence vanishes 2025-04-01 at 00:49 By Thomas Claburn 1990s incident response in 2025 Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the

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Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs raises $600M in first funding round for AI drug business 2025-04-01 at 00:14 By Taylor Herzlich The London-based business – which launched in 2021 – will use the funds to further its research, expand its team and continue on its mission to create new drugs and medicines using AI. This article is

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VC Roundup: 8-figure funding deals suggest crypto bull market far from over 2025-04-01 at 00:14 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Venture capital funding continued to pour into the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry in March, even as market commentators sensationalized the end of the bull market amid Bitcoin’s 30% retracement.  VC flows are considered a vital

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4 key Bitcoin metrics suggest $80K BTC price is a discount 2025-04-01 at 00:14 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped from $87,241 to $81,331 between March 28 and March 31, erasing gains from the previous 17 days. The 6.8% correction liquidated $230 million in bullish BTC futures positions and largely followed the

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