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Bitcoin closed April up twelve percent, marking Strategy's first positive month since July. The firm added four point one billion dollars in BTC during the month, continuing its aggressive accumulation strategy. But on-chain analysts are flagging the gains as largely speculative, raising questions about whether the rally reflects genuine demand or leveraged positioning.
Spotify is drawing a clearer line between human artists and artificial intelligence, rolling out verified badges for musicians who can demonstrate real-world presence — think live performance dates, social media activity, the markers of an actual career. It's a meaningful acknowledgment that as AI-generated music floods the platform, listeners may need help knowing who, or what, they're actually hearing.
And Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is dealing with something uglier than a typical cyberattack. A pro-Iran hacktivist group calling itself the three thirteen team has been hammering Ubuntu dot com with a distributed denial of service assault — and has now turned it into a shakedown, demanding payment to stop. Canonical confirmed its web infrastructure is under attack, and as of now, the site remains down.
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