Bitcoin just had its worst single-day drop since March, tumbling from around $91,000 to under $85,000. The sell-off dragged down the entire crypto market and related stocks, raising fresh questions about stability.
Surfshark’s 2025 Digital Quality of Life Index reveals a stark East-West divide. The US is #1 in AI readiness and infrastructure, but European nations dominate the top ten for overall digital wellbeing, highlighting a gap between innovation and citizen experience.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has confirmed that last week’s cyber incident was a data breach, with attackers copying information from its systems. The breach is part of a wider outage affecting two other London councils, with recovery expected to take at least two more weeks.
The startup xLight, led by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, has secured a $150 million federal award under the CHIPS Act. The company aims to revolutionize chipmaking with a new laser technology, but faces huge hurdles integrating with industry giant ASML.
European authorities have shut down the Cryptomixer platform, seizing servers and over $29 million in Bitcoin. The service had laundered more than $1.5 billion since 2016 for ransomware gangs and dark web dealers.
TikTok Shop pulled in half a billion dollars over the Black Friday to Cyber Monday period. But in the massive US e-commerce arena, that’s still just a small slice of the pie.
MongoDB’s stock skyrocketed following a massive earnings beat, driven by its Atlas cloud database platform. The company is seeing broad-based demand, particularly for AI-related workloads, signaling strong momentum in the competitive database market.
A startup founded by ex-McKinsey consultants just raised $2 million to tackle a surprisingly analog problem in the $250 billion consulting industry. Their target? The endless Excel marathons for survey analysis in private equity due diligence.
Anthropic is touting its work with over 100 nonprofits, offering free courses and AI tools. The potential to boost capacity is huge, but the risks and motivations deserve a closer look.
Intel’s Arc GPUs have finally registered on the market share radar, capturing 1% of the add-in board market. The overall market saw unusual “panic buying” in Q3 2025, driven by tariff fears, with AMD’s share ticking up to 7% against NVIDIA’s 92%.
