The U.S. FCC has banned new drones and key drone parts made in foreign countries, citing security risks like spying and data theft. Existing approved models can still be sold and used, but future drones must be made in the U.S.
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A cyberattack hit France’s national postal service, shutting down online payments and causing major delays in package deliveries and some banking services during the Christmas rush.
China shut down about 400,000 BTC mining machines in Xinjiang in December, cutting global Bitcoin computing power by nearly 8% and marking one of the largest mining disruptions since the 2024 halving, as miners shift to other regions.
Researchers introduce SafeMed-R1, a training and defense method that makes medical vision-language AI models far more resistant to adversarial attacks, keeping accuracy at 84.45% under strong attacks versus about 25% for standard models.
Bitcoin is heading for one of its weakest year-end periods since 2018, with BTC down over 22% so far in Q4 2025 and about 30% below its yearly peak, even as it trades near $88,000 after a recent short-term rebound.
Baidu will launch a pilot self-driving taxi service in London in the first half of 2026, working with Uber and Lyft, following new UK rules that formally allow automated vehicles on the road.
Bitcoin traders are ramping up year-end bets as perpetual open interest climbs to 310,000 BTC and funding rates rise, while over $23 billion in bitcoin options are set to expire on Dec. 26 in one of the largest expiry events to date.
Amazon says it blocked over 1,800 remote job applications from suspected North Korean agents, using AI tools and staff checks to spot fake identities linked to online work scams aimed at secretly funding the country’s weapons programs.
BlackRock now lists its IBIT Bitcoin ETF as one of its three main investment themes for 2025–2026, alongside US Treasury bills and major tech stocks. IBIT has drawn about $62.5B in inflows since launch, despite BTC being down this year.
Spotify says it has disabled user accounts tied to large-scale copying of its music and has added new protections, after Anna’s Archive claimed it scraped metadata for 256 million tracks and audio for 86 million songs and shared them via torrents.
The FCC has blocked new foreign-made drones from entering the U.S. unless cleared by the Pentagon or Homeland Security, citing national security risks, but existing drones already owned by people can still be used.
VanEck says Bitcoin’s computing power fell 4% this month, the sharpest drop since April, which past data links to better later returns. Analysts also estimate about 13 countries now actively support Bitcoin mining, including Japan as a new entrant.
US data centers are turning to new liquid cooling tech that “showers” or bathes computer chips in special fluids, cutting cooling energy use by up to 80% and even letting some sites reuse the waste heat to warm buildings.
Google’s parent company Alphabet is buying data center and energy firm Intersect for $4.75 billion, aiming to build more power-efficient data centers to support its growing AI computing needs, including planned $40 billion AI sites in Texas.
Bitcoin is moving sideways in a tight price range as traders wait for a clear move. An analyst says Bitcoin keeps bouncing between the same support and resistance levels, with no strong rise or drop until one of those levels clearly breaks.
OpenAI is using an AI “attacker” bot, trained with reinforcement learning, to probe its ChatGPT Atlas browser for hidden malicious instructions in web pages and emails, aiming to catch and fix prompt injection tricks before real hackers exploit them.
Arizona senator Wendy Rogers has proposed bills to bar state and local taxes on Bitcoin and other digital assets, and to stop cities from charging people who run blockchain nodes. Voters could decide some of these changes in the 2026 election.
Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has copied nearly all of Spotify, collecting data on about 256 million tracks and 86 million songs (around 300TB). The group plans to release the files for download, raising major copyright and piracy concerns.
Strategy boosted its cash reserves to $2.19B with a $748M stock sale and paused new Bitcoin buys amid a market downturn, while holding 671,268 BTC. Bitcoin traded near $89,433, down about 4.4% over the past year as price swings continued.
AI is letting hackers break into systems faster than ever. Security firm Zafran says attackers are now exploiting software bugs on average a day before patches are released, with AI tools helping weaponize most new vulnerabilities.