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North Korea Uses GitHub in Diplomat Cyber Attacks as IT Worker Scheme Hits 320+ Firms 2025-08-20 at 12:52 By North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart between March and July 2025. The activity manifested in the form of at least 19 spear-phishing […]

Ether trader nearly wiped out after epic run from $125K to $43M 2025-08-20 at 12:03 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai After making nearly $7 million in four months, this savvy trader lost nearly all his gains in just two days, illustrating the unpredictability of the crypto markets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records 2025-08-20 at 11:40 By Gareth Halfacree Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to

McDonald’s not lovin’ it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security 2025-08-20 at 11:11 By Iain Thomson Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald’s staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights

ZK-proofs could protect privacy and still combat bad actors, VC argues 2025-08-20 at 10:06 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte A16z Crypto’s comments come weeks after Roman Storm was found guilty of charges linked to his mixing service Tornado Cash, which masks the origin and destination of crypto. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ plans have stalled: Report 2025-08-20 at 10:06 By Cointelegraph by Tarang Khaitan Elon Musk will back Vice President JD Vance in the 2028 presidential elections should he choose to run, The Wall Street Journal reported. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Retail went from bullish to ‘ultra bearish’ as Bitcoin dipped to $113K 2025-08-20 at 10:06 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Bitcoin retraced to a low of $112,600 as retail panic selling resulted in the most bearish social sentiment since June, but analysts see a buying opportunity ahead. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o 2025-08-20 at 09:33 By Thomas Claburn Researchers use LLM in ‘AI Space Cortex’ to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration Businesses may be struggling to find meaningful ways to use artificial intelligence software, but space scientists at least have a few ideas about how to deploy AI models.… This article is

Harvard economist admits he was wrong about Bitcoin crashing to $100 2025-08-20 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, who predicted Bitcoin would likely hit $100 before $100,000, admitted he was wrong about three things. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Trump-tied crypto company ALT5 Sigma denies SEC probe rumors 2025-08-20 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea ALT5 Sigma denied a report suggesting one of its executives was being investigated by the SEC for insider trading tied to the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks 2025-08-20 at 08:31 By A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, has been identified as the administrator of the service, the U.S.

Strategy hits 4-month low as Saylor changes tack on MSTR issuance 2025-08-20 at 08:03 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Saylor’s Strategy stock price taps its lowest point since April amid controversy over equity guidance changes and a broader downturn among Bitcoin treasury companies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot 2025-08-20 at 08:03 By Simon Sharwood Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.… This article is

WazirX users approve restructuring plan again after court rebuff 2025-08-20 at 07:11 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte WazirX has been trying to get a restructuring plan through the Singapore High Court to start returning funds to users impacted by the $234 million hack in 2024. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons 2025-08-20 at 06:03 By Simon Sharwood Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 processors.…

Why is Bitcoin crashing and will $112K be the final bottom? 2025-08-20 at 05:04 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Bitcoin’s drop below $113,000 reflects investors’ worries about the US economy, stock markets and crypto, but the volatility does not end BTC’s long-term bullish trend. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Top Fed official: Staff should be allowed to hold a little crypto 2025-08-20 at 05:04 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman, says the central bank should roll back its restrictions that ban staff from buying crypto. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

SoFi to become first US bank to integrate Bitcoin Lightning, UMA 2025-08-20 at 04:01 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea SoFi Technologies will leverage the Bitcoin network under a partnership with Lightspark to better compete in the $740 billion global remittance market. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Google lands major nuclear energy deal to power it’s massive AI data centers with 50 megawatt capacity 2025-08-20 at 03:11 By Fox Business Google, Kairos Power, and the Tennessee Valley Authority have agreed to supply 50 megawatts of nuclear power to data centers in Tennessee and Alabama. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and

Minnesota joins slew of states suing TikTok for allegedly preying on young people with addictive algorithms 2025-08-20 at 02:48 By Associated Press “This isn’t about free speech. I’m sure they’re gonna holler that,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said at a news conference. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews