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Bitcoin’s price fell below $80,000, extending the sale, which wiped out $1 trillion from the cryptocurrency market. The recession sparked concerns about further declines. The world’s largest cryptocurrency is down about 25% from its all-time high of $110,000, with some market insiders pointing to “price suppression” as a factor in the decline. The slide continued on Friday, sending Bitcoin to its lowest level in over three months, erasing the profits following Donald Trump’s election victory. During Asian trading hours, Bitcoin fell 5.5% a day to around $78,782. By 8:45am, it had slipped to another $78,495.84, a 7.2% drop from the…
Belgium is investigating allegedly a National Security Services (VSSE) data breach by Chinese government hackers. In a statement sent to TechCrunch on Friday, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said that an investigation into the cyberattack was opened in November 2023 after learning about the alleged violations. This reviewed an earlier report by French-language Belgian newspaper Le Soir, reporting that Chinese hacking groups could access the intelligence agency’s external mail server between 2021 and 2023. The unnamed Chinese hacking group reportedly exploited a vulnerability in the software of US cybersecurity company Barracuda. The critical assessment that Barracuda first disclosed in May…
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Bangladesh students who led the mass protest last year have set up a political party before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s parliamentary elections scheduled to be held the following year. Speaking to a rally on Manik Meer Avenue, adjacent to the capital’s parliament building on Friday, the new National Citizens Party (NCP) leader argued that he would pursue a politics of national unity, transparency and good governance over an independent foreign policy to build a “second Republic.” Lima Akhtar, sister to Ismail Hossein Raby, was among those killed by security forces during the July uprising against Hasina -…
Microsoft officially closed Skype in May 2025 and ended the service that once defined internet calls. The company, which bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, is shifting users to Microsoft teams, a platform built with business collaboration in mind. A report from XDA revealed that Microsoft has added messages to the latest Skype for Windows Preview. Keep calling and chatting with your team. “This message will be accompanied by a notification indicating that the number of user contacts has already been switched to the team. This decision led to a mixed reaction. Some recall that in the early days…
Strong winds and blocked roads hamper the rescue mission of 42 workers caught in an avalanche in Uttarakhand.More than 40 construction workers are trapped under the snow due to an avalanche near the Indian border with Tibet. The situation like Blizzard caused an avalanche in a camp near the mountain village of Mana in Uttarakhand, Himalayas on Friday. Initially, 57 workers were locked in, removing snow from the camp. Riddim Agarwal, an official from the state’s disaster relief force, said 15 of them were rescued, while 42 are still missing. According to Indian media reports, disaster response teams are about…
Greece, Tempe, Greece has stopped amid general strike to commemorate the second anniversary of the country’s worst railway disaster, with 346 protests counted in Greece and overseas. Hundreds of thousands of protesters join the rally, and some clash with police as tensions grows. Government services, banks and businesses closed on Friday. The ships did not sail, the trains did not run, and no planes came and went in and out of Greece. An independent accident report released Thursday cited a series of chronic equipment failures and human errors in the Greek railway system, causing a northbound passenger train to collide…
February 28, 2025Ravi LakshmananAPI Security / AI Security Microsoft on Thursday did not mask four individuals who said they were behind the Azure Abuse Enterprise Scheme, which involves leveraging unauthorized access to artificial intelligence (Genai) services to produce offensive and harmful content. Called LLMJacking, the campaign targets a variety of AI products, including Microsoft’s Azure Openai service. The tech giant is tracking the Cybercrime network as the Storm-2139. The individual in the name – Arian Yodegarnia of Iran, aka “Fizz” of Iran, Alan Krisiaq “Drago” of the UK, and CG-Dot of Hong Kong, China and Hong Kong, aka “Asakuri” of…
Director Dr Gerald Batist, Professor Shirin Enger and Chief Operating Officer Miriam Santos Dutra of the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer discuss the Centre’s essential role in advancing cancer research through the translation of laboratory discoveries into practical applications. Founded in 1996, the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer (MCTRC) unites a diverse team of clinical and fundamental scientists from across Quebec, focusing on advancing cancer research and improving patient outcomes. As part of both the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and the Segal Cancer Centre of the Jewish General Hospital (JGH), the MCTRC brings together…
We found that the dataset used to train large-scale language models (LLMS) contains nearly 12,000 live secrets that can be successful in authentication. The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose serious security risks for users and organizations, not to mention exacerbating the problem when LLMS proposes unstable coding practices to users. Truffle Security said it downloaded its December 2024 archive from Common Crawl, which maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data. The large dataset includes over 250 billion pages over 18 years. The archives include 400,000 WARC files (web archive format) across 38.3 million registered domains,…
Technical Event Production Specialist Universal Live has appointed Charli Briggs as account director. With a strong background agency side leading key client accounts such as Remington, GES, and American Express, Briggs step into this newly created role to lead client experience and business growth. Briggs previously ran its own event stuffing agency and provided support to event institutions, including principals. Collaboration with Global Events, EMC3, Top Banana and Universal Live. “Charli’s approach is perfectly in line with our values,” says Kirsty Waine, Managing Director of Universal Live. “Her experience in client services is mixed with commercial thinking and helps strengthen…