Taiwan’s justice ministry revealed it holds 210 BTC seized in criminal cases, sparking debate over whether the country should treat Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset while regulators draft stricter rules for digital currencies.
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The UK government will add an AI chatbot to its GOV.UK app in early 2026, letting people ask everyday questions and get one simple answer drawn from multiple departments, before expanding it across the main government website.
Japanese Bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet, the fourth-largest corporate holder of bitcoin, will begin trading U.S. American Depositary Receipts on Dec. 19 under ticker MPJPY, making it easier for U.S. investors to access its bitcoin-focused shares.
Google Pixel 7, 8, and 9 phones have had a Bluetooth bug for over a year that stops audio from working properly in many cars. Google has acknowledged the problem, but it persists across multiple Android updates and still has no permanent fix.
Google’s Gemini app now lets users upload videos to check if they were made or edited with Google AI. It scans the clip for hidden SynthID marks in the sound and picture and reports which parts contain AI-generated content.
Bitcoin rose about 2.5% after Japan raised interest rates to their highest level in 30 years, with analysts saying Bitcoin is trying to form a price floor while closely watching the impact of Japan’s move on the yen and global markets.
Prediction market bets suggest Bitcoin may rise more slowly in the near future, with traders expecting a gradual climb instead of a sharp jump in BTC price.
Circle’s USDC stablecoin is being added to Intuit’s main financial software products through a new partnership, showing digital dollars are moving into everyday business tools alongside Bitcoin in the wider crypto market.
Researchers raised a new security risk for “machine unlearning”: a Dual-View Inference Attack shows that when attackers can query both the original and the unlearned model, they can extract more membership information about retained data, increasing privacy leakage.
Bitcoin mining in Libya once reached about 0.6% of global computing power thanks to very cheap electricity and unclear rules. Authorities are now cracking down with raids, prison sentences, and equipment seizures as they blame mining for power shortages.
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the first phone chip built with 2nm tech. The 10-core processor promises up to 39% faster CPU performance, over double the AI power, better graphics, and improved cooling, and is expected in future Galaxy S26 phones.
The SEC sued Bitcoin miner VBit, alleging its hosted bitcoin mining agreements are unregistered securities and that $48M in investor funds were misused, raising new questions about how some Bitcoin mining services may fall under U.S. securities laws.
China has activated CENI, a new nationwide test network linking 40 cities with 55,000 km of fiber. In a trial, it moved 72 TB of data about 1,000 km in 1.6 hours and is already being used by companies like Baidu to speed up AI data work.
Analysts say Bitcoin quietly entered a bear market in late October 2025, noting that most of this cycle’s gains stayed in BTC instead of spreading to other risky assets, even as broader crypto prices and activity weakened.
TikTok’s owner ByteDance has signed binding deals to sell most of its US business to investors including Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, with ByteDance keeping 19.9%. The move aims to address US national security concerns and avoid a TikTok ban.
Executives say worries about quantum computers are slowing new money into Bitcoin, as some investors fear future attacks on its security. Developers like Adam Back argue the technology is decades away and contingency plans can keep BTC safe.
TikTok’s owner ByteDance has agreed to sell most of its US business to a new joint venture with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX. The deal, expected to close January 22, 2026, will put US TikTok data and app control largely in American hands.
MicroBT has unveiled a new Bitcoin mining machine that reaches petahash-level power, marking a major leap in mining hardware performance and pushing Bitcoin network computing strength to new extremes.
Amazon says it has blocked more than 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers from securing remote tech jobs since April 2024, using AI screening and human checks to spot fake identities and deepfake interviews used to fund the regime and steal data.
Microsoft will phase out the old RC4 encryption in Windows after years of it being used in cyberattacks. By mid-2026, Windows domain controllers will use stronger AES-based protection by default, with RC4 turned off unless admins switch it back on.