New York’s incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani has banned Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero devices from his inauguration block party, grouping them with drones and weapons due to concerns they could be used to tamper with security and wireless systems.
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Tokyo-listed Metaplanet bought 4,279 BTC in Q4 2025 for about $451M, lifting its total to 35,102 BTC worth roughly $3.78B. The company now ranks among the larger corporate Bitcoin holders, treating Bitcoin as a main long-term asset on its balance sheet.
Bitcoin has dropped from a 2025 high of $126,200 to about $88,000, as part of a wider market fall. Key 2026 factors include a major US crypto law debate, possible Fed rate cuts, and potential approval for retirement plans to invest in bitcoin.
China’s Lisuan has begun shipping its first homegrown gaming graphics card, the G100. Early tests suggest performance closer to a 2012-era GPU than the promised RTX 4060 level, but it fully runs modern Windows and DirectX games.
Google is rolling out a new Reading mode in Chrome for Android. Users can now turn it on from the menu for any page, keep the address bar visible, and adjust font, text size, and background color, with settings saved across sites.
Metaplanet bought 4,279 BTC while Bitcoin funds saw a week of outflows and BlackRock moved 2,201 BTC to Coinbase, adding to worries about big players selling. Another firm, Prenetics, paused new bitcoin buys but will keep its 510 BTC as reserves.
SK hynix will build a $3.9B advanced chip packaging plant in Indiana by 2028 to assemble high-bandwidth memory modules for AI processors, creating a new U.S. hub for AI hardware and offering an alternative to TSMC for critical AI chip packaging.
Netflix has started production on “One Attempt Remaining,” a romantic comedy that uses Bitcoin-style wallets and seed phrases as key plot points, signaling a shift toward more mainstream and nuanced portrayals of Bitcoin and crypto in film.
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang will pay about $1.18B in compensation after a cyberattack exposed data from 33.7M customers, including names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and order details, in one of the country’s largest data breaches.
South Korea has delayed its main crypto bill to 2026 over stablecoin rules, but the president still supports Bitcoin, including potential BTC exchange-traded funds and possible investment by the national pension fund.
TCL unveils the Note A1 Nxtpaper, a new E Ink-style tablet with a 120Hz full-color screen that cuts ghosting while keeping a paper-like look. It adds AI tools for meeting transcripts, live translation, and one-tap summaries, and ships in February 2026.
David Beckham-backed Prenetics has halted new bitcoin purchases, dropping its plan to buy 1 BTC a day and shifting funds to its IM8 business. The firm will keep holding its existing 510 BTC, now used as a reserve asset.
Meta is buying AI start-up Manus, whose software can carry out complex tasks like trip planning or making presentations with minimal user input. Meta says Manus’s tech and team will help power general-purpose AI assistants across its apps and services.
Meta is buying AI startup Manus for over $2B, keeping its service running while folding the tech into Meta products. After the deal, Manus will cut all remaining ties with China, including ending its services and operations there.
Bitcoin has entered a technical bear market, dropping about 30% from its record high near $126,000 to around $89,000, with several chart signals suggesting more weakness as investors await new details from the latest Federal Reserve meeting.
European Space Agency confirms hackers breached external servers used for joint projects, after a group claimed to have stolen over 200GB of source code, tokens, and documents from its JIRA and Bitbucket systems. ESA says only “unclassified” systems were hit.
Bitcoin briefly rose above $89,000 in U.S. trading, a change from its recent pattern of daytime losses. Data suggests the move was mainly traders closing losing bets, while spot bitcoin funds saw a seventh straight day of investor withdrawals.
CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch a serious MongoDB bug, “MongoBleed” (CVE-2025-14847), after active attacks were detected. The flaw lets hackers steal data like passwords and API keys from unpatched MongoDB servers on the internet.
Strategy bought another 10,645 BTC for about $980 million at an average price of $92,098, raising its total holdings to 671,268 BTC. The firm is funding purchases mainly through stock sales and holds a $1.44 billion cash reserve to avoid selling Bitcoin.
China now requires chipmakers to use at least 50% China-made tools when building new semiconductor factories, a move that could push foreign equipment suppliers out of a major market while boosting the country’s own chipmaking technology.