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John Bolton pleads not guilty to charges in classified information case https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/john-bolton-indictment-10-17-25 President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded not guilty to eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information. He made his first appearance Friday at federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Nvidia, Microsoft, and BlackRock Just Struck a Massive AI Data Center Deal AI darling Nvidia just struck another big data center deal—this time as part of a group with Microsoft, BlackRock, and others. A consortium including BlackRock (BLK), Nvidia (NVDA), and Microsoft (MSFT) said Wednesday it would buy AI data center infrastructure company Aligned Data Centers in an agreement valued at $40 billion.
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BRICS Currency Backed by Gold and XRP Shows Impressive Progress The BRICS gold-backed currency using XRP is showing real progress right now, and member nations are actually building the infrastructure needed for trade settlements that can bypass dollar systems entirely. Central banks from BRICS countries have been working directly on the XRP Ledger for years, and the evidence keeps piling up that this alternative to the current financial setup is becoming more serious by the day.
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Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins Crypto industry observers were baffled Wednesday afternoon when an on-chain transaction showed that Paxos, the issuer behind the PayPal-branded PYUSD stablecoin, minted $300 trillion worth of the tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. A little over 20 minutes later, all 300 trillion PYUSD tokens were "burned," or effectively destroyed, by sending them to an inaccessible network address.
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Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits Home secretary Shabana Mahmood on Wednesday admitted that Britain and other countries had lost control of their borders, ahead of a meeting with Balkan countries intended to tackle a flow of illegal migrants into Europe.
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Oh Dear, There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Ocean Technically, it’s a spring, because water is flowing in and not out. But in the ways that matter, it definitely is a leak. It’s known as Pythia’s Oasis, and it’s a spring of almost-fresh water most welling up from under the ocean floor through a fault called the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
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Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced-Labor Scam An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Chen Zhi, also known as “Vincent,” the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prince Group), a multinational business conglomerate based in Cambodia, with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy for directing Prince Group’s operation of forced-labor scam compounds across Cambodia. Individuals held against their will in the compounds engaged in cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes, known as “pig butchering” scams, that stole billions of dollars from victims in the United States and around the world.
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Clans and armed groups challenging Hamas in Gaza https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/clans-armed-groups-challenging-hamas-gaza-2025-10-14/ As the Gaza war dragged on, a diminished Hamas faced growing internal challenges to its control of Gaza from long-standing rivals, many of them affiliated with powerful local clans. Since Friday's ceasefire took hold, Hamas has sought to reassert itself, killing dozens of opponents in a crackdown after appearing to get a U.S. nod to temporarily police the shattered enclave.
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RealBlindingEDR Tool That Permanently Turns Off AV/EDR Using Kernel Callbacks An open-source tool called RealBlindingEDR enables attackers to blind, permanently disable, or terminate antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) software by clearing critical kernel callbacks on Windows systems. Released on GitHub in late 2023, the utility leverages signed drivers for arbitrary memory read and write operations, bypassing protections like PatchGuard to target six major kernel callback types. This development raises alarms for cybersecurity professionals, as the tool has been adopted by ransomware groups such as Crypto24 in recent attacks.
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SpaceX launches the 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time. Starship — the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built — thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas. The booster peeled away and made a controlled entry into the Gulf of Mexico as planned, with the spacecraft skimming space before descending into the Indian Ocean. Nothing was recovered.
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JPMorgan says it will invest $10b into industries critical for national security JPMorgan Chase on Monday said it is launching a decade-long plan to help finance and take direct stakes in companies it considers crucial to U.S. interests. The bank said in a statement it would invest up to $10 billion into companies in four areas: defense and aerospace, "frontier" technologies including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, energy technology including batteries, and supply chain and advanced manufacturing.
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Discord, Red Hat Data Breach, 7-Zip Vulnerabilities and Sonicwall Firewall Hack Welcome to this week’s edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter Weekly, where we dive into the most pressing threats and vulnerabilities shaping the digital landscape. As cyber risks continue to evolve at breakneck speed, our October 12, 2025, roundup spotlights a Discord platform breach exposing user data to potential exploitation, the alarming Red Hat data leak that compromised enterprise credentials and source code, critical flaws in 7-Zip software enabling arbitrary code execution, and a sophisticated hack targeting SonicWall firewalls that could bypass network defenses.
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The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine? As he boarded the night train to Ukraine, Boris Johnson had the usual entourage of aides and bodyguards – plus the man who had given him £1m. Less than a year had passed since Johnson accepted what is thought to be the largest donation ever to an individual MP. It was from Christopher Harborne, one of the UK’s biggest and most private political donors. Harborne, whose millions helped bankroll Brexit, made the payment to a private company Johnson set up after resigning as prime minister. Now leaked files show that Johnson, a champion of Ukraine in office and since, was accompanied in September 2023 by his benefactor on a two-day visit that included meetings with top officials.
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Linux Kernel ksmbd Filesystem Vulnerability Exploited - PoC Released Security researchers have released a full proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s ksmbd module, demonstrating a reliable path to local privilege escalation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37947, is an out-of-bounds write that can be leveraged by an authenticated local attacker to gain complete root control over a vulnerable system.
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Israelis and Palestinians Await Hostage-Prisoner Swap With Relief and Elation Israelis and Palestinians prepared on Sunday for an exchange of all the living hostages who remain in Gaza for about 2,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, the cornerstone of a new cease-fire agreement. The Israeli government said the exchange was expected to begin on Monday morning local time, but Israel was prepared for it to happen even sooner.
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GitLab Update: Patch For Multiple Vulnerabilities That Enables DoS Attack GitLab has released important security updates. The new versions are 18.4.2, 18.3.4, and 18.2.8 for both Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). These updates fix several vulnerabilities that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and allow unauthorized access. All self-managed GitLab installations are strongly advised to upgrade promptly to mitigate potential disruptions. GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated customers are already fully protected by these patches.