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Russia and Ukraine are trading blame for continued air attacks on civilian targets in Ukrainian regions Sumy and Donetsk and on energy targets in Russia’s Krasnodar since Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a 30-day halt on attacks on energy infrastructure targets in Ukraine following a phone call with United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday. So will the halt on energy attacks be the first step to securing peace in Ukraine, or was it merely a stalling tactic to let the war drag on? Here is what we know so far. What did Trump and Putin agree to? What…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has suspended approximately $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over the participation of a transgender athlete in its swimming program, the White House said Wednesday.The Ivy League school has been facing an Education Department investigation focusing on in its swimming program. That inquiry was announced last month immediately after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports. But the federal money was suspended in a separate review of discretionary federal money going to universities, the White House said. The…

Crossmint, an all-in-one blockchain platform for businesses, has secured $23.6m in a funding round led by Ribbit Capital.Other investors include Franklin Templeton, Nyca, First Round, and Lightspeed Faction. The investment follows a year of rapid growth, with Crossmint’s subscription revenue surging by 1,100% in 2024.The company provides businesses with tools to develop blockchain applications using minimal code. Its platform enables companies to integrate wallets, tokenization, payments, and onramps without requiring blockchain expertise or digital asset holdings.Consumers can engage with blockchain-based services using traditional methods like Face ID and email sign-ups while avoiding gas fees and other technical barriers.Over 40,000 companies…

NymCard, an embedded finance platform operating across more than 10 countries in the MENA region, has raised $33m in a Series B funding round.The investment was led by QED Investors, marking the firm’s most significant commitment in the region and its first lead investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).The funding round also saw participation from existing investors, including Lunate, Dubai Future District Fund, Mashreq Bank, Knollwood, Reciprocal, FJLabs, Shorooq, and Endeavor. Additionally, Oraseya Capital joined as a new investor, reinforcing confidence in NymCard’s role in shaping the future of embedded finance in MENA.NymCard provides full-stack payment infrastructure for banks,…

Chinese APT actor MirrorFace has been observed targeting a Central European diplomatic institute in relation to the upcoming Expo 2025 event, cybersecurity firm ESET reports. Also known as Earth Kasha, MirrorFace is operating under the China-linked state sponsored hacking group APT10, focusing on targeting Japanese entities such as the country’s Foreign and Defense ministries, as well as the country’s space agency, politicians, journalists, private companies, and think tanks. Dubbed Operation AkaiRyū (RedDragon in Japanese), the campaign against the diplomatic institute is the first known MirrorFace attack against a European entity, and has revealed updated tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and…

A scareware campaign phishing for login credentials recently switched from targeting Windows to macOS, Israeli cybersecurity firm LayerX reports. Throughout 2024 and in early 2025, the attacks targeted Windows users, relying on compromised websites to serve fake Microsoft security alerts claiming that users’ computers had been compromised and locked. The malicious code caused the webpages to freeze, creating the illusion of an issue, and the victim was instructed to provide their Windows username and password, LayerX explains. As part of the campaign, the threat actors hosted their phishing pages on the legitimate Azure application hosting platform Windows.net, adding a sense…

A scareware campaign phishing for login credentials recently switched from targeting Windows to macOS, Israeli cybersecurity firm LayerX reports. Throughout 2024 and in early 2025, the attacks targeted Windows users, relying on compromised websites to serve fake Microsoft security alerts claiming that users’ computers had been compromised and locked. The malicious code caused the webpages to freeze, creating the illusion of an issue, and the victim was instructed to provide their Windows username and password, LayerX explains. As part of the campaign, the threat actors hosted their phishing pages on the legitimate Azure application hosting platform Windows.net, adding a sense…

There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference focused on AI. At least three AI labs — Sakana, Intology, and Autoscience — claim to have used AI to generate studies that were accepted to ICLR workshops. At conferences like ICLR, workshop organizers typically review studies for publication in the conference’s workshop track. Sakana informed ICLR leaders before it submitted its AI-generated papers and obtained the peer reviewers’ consent. The other two labs — Intology and Autoscience — did not, an ICLR spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. Several AI academics took to social media…

Imane Khelif, who won Paris Olympics boxing gold amid a gender-eligibility row, is determined to defend her title at the 2028 Los Angeles Games and says she will not be intimidated by US President Donald Trump. Trump signed an executive order banning transgender women from female sports in the United States last month and called Khelif “a male boxer” in his speech after signing the order. “I will give you a straightforward answer, I am not transgender,” she told ITV in an interview. “This does not concern me, and it does not intimidate me.” The International Olympic Committee’s executive board…

Leading figures from the insurance and cyber security sectors have issued a unified call for insurers to enhance cyber resilience in response to a rapidly evolving threat landscape.At a high-level roundtable hosted by cyber security specialists Intersys, industry experts warned that insurers must move beyond reactive measures and adopt proactive risk management strategies to combat emerging cyber threats.The event brought together senior professionals across cyber security, underwriting, and risk management, including representatives from The Camelot Network, Specialty MGA UK, We Are Just, Neo Ventures, Devonshire Underwriting, and Intersys.Panelists highlighted several pressing challenges:Ransomware Attacks – 60% of businesses affected by ransomware…