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Crypto Biz: From shorting the Venezuelan Bolivar to shorting the US dollar 2025-05-24 at 00:07 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi When Venezuela was experiencing hyperinflation, Ledn co-founder Mauricio di Bartolomeo hedged against the collapsing local currency by shorting it in favor of the more stable US dollar. Today, he’s using a similar strategy — this […]

Bitcoin price ‘breather’ expected as short-term traders realize $11.6B in profit 2025-05-23 at 23:01 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Key takeaways: Short-term Bitcoin holders realized $11.6 billion in profit over the past 30 days, suggesting a potential pause or local top in the market. Technical indicators show cooling momentum as retail investor sentiment falls to […]

US House members call for investigation into Trump’s memecoin dinner 2025-05-23 at 23:01 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Members of the US House of Representatives called for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump’s May 22 dinner for his top memecoin investors, citing concerns about “foreign influence over US policy decisions” and “potential corruption and […]

Oracle to buy $40B of Nvidia chips for OpenAI’s US data center: report 2025-05-23 at 22:31 By Reuters The data center is a part of the US Stargate project, led by top AI firms in the country, to boost America’s heft in the AI industry. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and […]

Price predictions 5/23: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, SUI, HYPE, LINK 2025-05-23 at 22:01 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Key points: Bitcoin slipped below $109,588, but technical charts suggest traders are buying each dip. Excessive leverage in Bitcoin futures increases the risk of a quick correction. Select altcoins have turned down from their […]

Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system 2025-05-23 at 21:46 By Lindsay Clark SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is throwing more transactional database systems into its Fabric analytics and data lake environment in expectation the proximity will help users […]

Apple’s Tim Cook called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to personally lobby against online child safety bill 2025-05-23 at 21:32 By Thomas Barrabi Apple CEO Tim Cook personally called Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to lobbying against an online child safety bill currently under consideration in the state. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology […]

Hackers Use TikTok Videos to Distribute Vidar and StealC Malware via ClickFix Technique 2025-05-23 at 21:31 By The malware known as Latrodectus has become the latest to embrace the widely-used social engineering technique called ClickFix as a distribution vector. “The ClickFix technique is particularly risky because it allows the malware to execute in memory rather […]

Crypto, NFTs are a lifeboat in the sinking fiat system: Finance Redefined 2025-05-23 at 21:02 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Risk appetite across traditional and cryptocurrency markets saw a sharp rise this week, helping United States cryptocurrency funds recover the capital lost to the correction of February and March, amassing over $7.5 billion worth of […]

Bitcoin’s bull market will ‘redefine’ BTC’s role in modern portfolios — Fidelity research 2025-05-23 at 21:02 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s performance in the current bull market and a new cohort of buyers reflect a maturing market and widening adoption. A 50% rise in hashrate and a 63% jump in Realized Cap […]

‘In ‘93, it became clear to me AI should be decentralized’ — Ben Goertzel 2025-05-23 at 21:02 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi It’s been 30 years since computer scientist Ben Goertzel wrote his first line of AI code, already convinced that artificial intelligence should be decentralized. Today, as the world approaches the dawn of Artificial […]

Ransomware scum leaked Nova Scotia Power customers’ info 2025-05-23 at 20:48 By Jessica Lyons Bank accounts, personal details all hoovered up in the attack Nova Scotia Power on Friday confirmed it had been hit by a ransomware attack that began earlier this spring and disrupted certain IT systems, and admitted the crooks leaked data belonging […]

Glitch hits kill switch on app web hosting, citing ‘bad actors’ and worse architecture 2025-05-23 at 20:31 By Richard Speed Fastly acquisition asks that redirects be set up before December 31 Three years after confirming its acquisition by Fastly, Glitch is pulling the plug on its app hosting platform.… This article is an excerpt from […]

CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack 2025-05-23 at 19:51 By Connor Jones Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that SaaS companies are under fire from criminals on the prowl for cloud apps with weak security.… […]

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as ‘Copilot all the things’ mania takes hold in Redmond 2025-05-23 at 19:35 By Richard Speed A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified Microsoft has continued to shovel AI into its built-in Windows inbox apps, and now it’s rolling out a Notepad update that […]

How Organizations Can Stay Secure This Memorial Day Weekend 2025-05-23 at 19:16 By As Memorial Day Weekend approaches, many organizations prepare for a well-deserved break. But while employees take time off, cybercriminals get to work. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Spoiler alert: The future of Web3 is not blockchain 2025-05-23 at 19:04 By Cointelegraph by Grigore Roșu Opinion by: Grigore Roșu, founder and chief executive officer of Pi Squared For some, the audacity of questioning the primacy of blockchain in Web3 is borderline heretical. The idea that decentralization and progress could exist without blockchains seems […]

Bitcoin price drops 4% as Trump EU tariff talk liquidates over $300M 2025-05-23 at 19:04 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Key points: Bitcoin joins risk assets in a knee-jerk reaction to the latest instalment of the US trade war, this time focused on the EU. BTC price action dives up to 4% before recovering with […]

Alchemy acquires no-code NFT launchpad HeyMint for undisclosed amount 2025-05-23 at 19:04 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Web3 developer platform Alchemy has acquired HeyMint, a California-based non-fungible token (NFT) launchpad, in a move designed to enhance the company’s smart wallet infrastructure.  The undisclosed funding deal will see HeyMint’s infrastructure embedded within Alchemy as it seeks […]