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Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

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Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ … Read more

Bitcoin, Ether Slump as Crypto Prices Dip on Report of Massive $1.5B Bybit Hack

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Cryptocurrency prices dropped on Friday, reversing early gains on reports that crypto exchange Bybit was seeing $1.5 billion worth of crypto outflows in a potential security incident. Bitcoin (BTC) slid to near $97,000 after hovering near $100,000 earlier during the day, while ether (ETH) slipped nearly 4%, dipping below $2,700. The sudden downturn liquidated roughly … Read more

DeepSeek to open-source parts of online services code

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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open-source portions of its online services’ code as part of an “open source week” event next week. DeepSeek will open-source five code repositories that have been “documented, deployed and battle-tested in production,” the company said in a post on X on Thursday. Code repositories are storage locations for software … Read more

Bybit Loses $1.5B in Hack but Can Cover Loss, CEO Confirms

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Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46 billion worth of “suspicious outflows,” according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT. The wallet in question appears to have sent 401,346 ETH ($1.1 billion) as well as several other iterations of staked ether (stETH) to a fresh wallet, which is now liquidating mETH and stETH on decentralized exchanges, etherscan shows. The … Read more

Phew! The risk of that asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 has significantly lowered

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 captured by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology’s Magdalena Ridge Observatory. | Image: NASA According to recent observations, the European Space Agency now says the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting our planet has dropped to just 0.16 percent. That follows an announcement yesterday from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies … Read more

The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them ‘not mission critical’

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A GSA-owned EV charger. | Image: GSA The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down all of its electric vehicle chargers nationwide, describing them as “not mission critical.” The agency, which manages contracts for the government’s vehicle fleets, is also looking to offload newly purchased … Read more

Bybit Makes Liquidation Data More Transparent Aiming to Lure Institutional Investors

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Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said all of its liquidation data is now publicly available through an upgrade to its application programming interface (API). With the upgrade, the API delivers liquidation data updates every 500 milliseconds, twice as fast as the previous version, which provided just one update per second per trading pair, it said. The … Read more

YouTube reportedly launching new ‘premium lite’ tier soon

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YouTube is close to announcing a new lower-priced “premium lite” version of its subscription service, Bloomberg reports. The new tier is expected to launch in the United States, Australia, Germany, and Thailand “soon.” The tier will give users access to YouTube’s library of podcasts and how-to clips without ads, Bloomberg notes. Premium lite will be … Read more

Android Auto bug is breaking wireless phone connectivity

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Android Auto users are experiencing wireless connectivity issues following its recent updates. As seen by Android Authority, some Reddit users report that attempting to wirelessly connect to vehicles via the Android platform is causing their phones to reboot. Others are finding that wireless connectivity is refusing to work entirely. Google told The Verge that its … Read more