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OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in round led by SoftBank 2025-04-01 at 18:20 By Thomas Barrabi Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off competition like Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology […]

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Bybit to shut down NFT marketplace as trading volumes decline 2025-04-01 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has announced the shutdown of its non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. In an April 1 announcement, Bybit warned its users that its NFT marketplace will cease operations on April 8, 2025, at 4:00 pm (UTC).

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Bitcoin’s quantum-resistant hard fork is inevitable — It’s the only chance to fix node incentives 2025-04-01 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Michael Tabone Opinion by: Dr. Michael Tabone, senior economist for Cointelegraph Bitcoin (BTC) has long been hailed as unbreakable and untouchable, a digital stronghold against the forces of change. Bitcoin’s bedrock of security is

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Multiple altcoins crash on April Fools’ day, crypto market holds steady 2025-04-01 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz A number of altcoins and memecoins saw a sharp sell-off on April Fools’ Day, April 1, with some tokens, including Act I The AI Prophecy, dropping nearly 60% in minutes. Act I The AI Prophecy (ACT),

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Lucid PhaaS Hits 169 Targets in 88 Countries Using iMessage and RCS Smishing 2025-04-01 at 17:55 By A new sophisticated phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Lucid has targeted 169 entities in 88 countries using smishing messages propagated via Apple iMessage and Rich Communication Services (RCS) for Android. Lucid’s unique selling point lies in its weaponizing of

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Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we’ll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it 2025-04-01 at 17:32 By Thomas Claburn ‘There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework’, Thomson Reuters CPO tells us Interview  Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence,

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Hacker transfers $70M out of payment platform UPCX 2025-04-01 at 17:07 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Update April 1, 1:42 pm UTC: This article has been updated to add comments from Cyvers co-founder and chief technology officer Meir Dolev. An unauthorized party withdrew approximately $70 million in digital assets from open-source payment platform UPCX, according

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Coinbase sees worst quarter since FTX collapse amid industry bloodbath 2025-04-01 at 17:07 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Publicly traded US-based crypto exchange Coinbase saw its worst quarter since the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in 2022. Coinbase shares started 2025 trading at just over $257 on Jan. 2 and ended the quarter at a

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Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough 2025-04-01 at 16:50 By Dan Robinson Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies

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Breaking: Ransomware Has Been Eradicated 2025-04-01 at 16:18 By Monica White After decades of struggle, ransomware gangs have finally been vanquished This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

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Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users 2025-04-01 at 16:04 By Connor Jones The UK government must be thrilled Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it’ll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT

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Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft’s money into open source cloud federation tech 2025-04-01 at 15:36 By Richard Speed Fulcrum is region’s latest challenge to the hyperscalers An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an

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Metaplanet adds $67M in Bitcoin following 10-to-1 stock split 2025-04-01 at 15:01 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Japan-based Metaplanet has expanded its Bitcoin holdings, purchasing 696 BTC for 10.152 billion yen ($67 million), the company announced in an April 1 post on X. The investment pushes Metaplanet’s total Bitcoin stash to 4,046 BTC, valued at

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Tether adds 8,888 Bitcoin in Q1 as holdings exceed $8.4B 2025-04-01 at 15:01 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Tether, issuer of the USDT stablecoin, acquired 8,888 Bitcoin in the first quarter of 2025, according to onchain data. Onchain transaction data shows that Tether moved its newly acquired Bitcoin (BTC), worth roughly $750 million at the

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UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill 2025-04-01 at 14:56 By Connor Jones Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation’s full details for first time The UK’s technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government’s Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to

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Nearly 24,000 IPs Target PAN-OS GlobalProtect in Coordinated Login Scan Campaign 2025-04-01 at 14:35 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a spike in suspicious login scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, with nearly 24,000 unique IP addresses attempting to access these portals. “This pattern suggests a coordinated effort to probe network defenses

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Apple Backports Critical Fixes for 3 Live Exploits Impacting iOS and macOS Legacy Devices 2025-04-01 at 14:35 By Apple on Monday backported fixes for three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild to older models and previous versions of the operating systems. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-24085 (CVSS

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New Case Study: Global Retailer Overshares CSRF Tokens with Facebook 2025-04-01 at 14:35 By Are your security tokens truly secure? Explore how Reflectiz helped a giant retailer to expose a Facebook pixel that was covertly tracking sensitive CSRF tokens due to human error misconfigurations. Learn about the detection process, response strategies, and steps taken to

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China-Linked Earth Alux Uses VARGEIT and COBEACON in Multi-Stage Cyber Intrusions 2025-04-01 at 14:35 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new China-linked threat actor called Earth Alux that has targeted various key sectors such as government, technology, logistics, manufacturing, telecommunications, IT services, and retail in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Latin American (LATAM) regions.

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Crypto ETP outflows, explained — What investors need to know 2025-04-01 at 14:04 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Deer What are crypto ETP outflows? Crypto ETPs give exposure to digital assets via traditional financial instruments. When more money exits these products rather than entering them, it is known as an “outflow” rather than an “inflow” —

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