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Vitalik says Grok arguably a 'net improvement' to X despite flaws
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (424+ words) Grok makes X more truth-friendly as it often challenges users" assumptions instead of confirming them, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Cointelegraph in your social feed X"s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, makes the social media platform more truth-friendly with responses…...
Solana under ‘industrial scale’ DDoS attack: Co-founder says it’s ‘bullish’
1+ week, 2+ day ago (568+ words) Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko claims the network is facing an industrial-scale 6 Tbps DDoS attack that has shown little visible impact. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and several accounts tied to the network's ecosystem said this week that Solana has been hit…...
Over 1 in 20 emails are malicious, warns internet giant Cloudflare
1+ week, 2+ day ago (394+ words) Cloudflare found over 5% of global emails were malicious in 2025, peaking near 10% in November, with more than half of them containing deceptive links. More than 5% of all emails sent worldwide contain malicious content, according to internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare." The web…...
The Future of Secure Messaging: Why Decentralization Matters
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1181+ words) Encrypted messengers are having a second wave. Apps like WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal made end-to-end encryption (E2EE) a default expectation. But most still hinge on phone numbers, centralized servers and a lot of metadata, such as who you talk to, when,…...
Ledger says popular chip used on Solana phones vulnerable to unstoppable attack
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (387+ words) Ledger says it was able to gain "full and absolute control" over a smartphone by using electromagnetic pulses to take over its chip. A chip widely used in smartphones, including the crypto-focused Solana Seeker, has an unfixable vulnerability that could…...
Telegram's Pavel Durov: Cocoon decentralized AI network now live
3+ week, 4+ day ago (333+ words) The privacy-preserving decentralized AI platform is built on top of The Open Network, and users earn TON for renting out computing power. The Cocoon decentralized AI network, a privacy-preserving distributed computing platform built on The Open Network (TON) " an independent…...
Warning: WhatsApp worm targets Brazilian crypto wallets, bank accounts
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (507+ words) Alert: A WhatsApp worm is spreading a banking trojan in Brazil, targeting crypto wallets and financial logins. Brazilian crypto holders are urged to be on the lookout for a sophisticated hacking campaign that includes a hijacking worm and banking trojan…...
Chat Control stumbles again as EU retreats from mandatory scanning
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (448+ words) EU lawmakers stripped out mandatory client-side message scanning from the latest Chat Control draft, but invasive age checks and voluntary scanning remain. European Union efforts to mandate scanning of private messages have been blocked again, marking another setback for the…...
France fully lifts travel ban on Telegram’s Pavel Durov: Report
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (341+ words) Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is now free to travel after French authorities lifted the ban on his travel, although the investigation into the platform remains open. French authorities have reportedly lifted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's travel ban amid an ongoing…...
Denmark finally giving up on EU Chat Control after privacy backlash
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (451+ words) Privacy-concerned citizens are celebrating as Denmark withdraws its proposal for the mandatory scanning of messages on platforms like Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp. Denmark, which holds the European Council presidency, has reportedly withdrawn the proposal that would have forced platforms like…...