Netflix released the feature-length series finale of Stranger Things on its streaming platform and in theaters, marking the end of the sci-fi show after five seasons without advance press screeners.
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US Rep. Warren Davidson warns new US stablecoin rules could support a surveillance-style digital dollar and digital IDs, saying this threatens private use of money and goes against Bitcoin’s original role as open, peer-to-peer digital cash.
The Night Manager returns after 10 years with a second season, launching January 2026 on BBC and Prime Video, continuing the story of British intelligence operations with Tom Hiddleston’s spy character facing a new high-risk mission
New York City’s 2026 mayoral inauguration for Zohran Mamdani will ban Flipper Zero hacking gadgets and Raspberry Pi mini computers from the event, singling them out alongside weapons and drones on the official prohibited items list.
Abra CEO Bill Barhydt says easier Fed policy and more money in markets could help lift Bitcoin in 2026, while some early adopters and analysts warn that BTC may still be in a long bear market and could hit a low around $60,000 that year.
Apple’s new iOS 26.2 update quietly upgrades CarPlay: some cars now show three on-screen widget stacks instead of two. The update also adds a CarPlay setting to turn off pinned message threads for drivers with smaller in-car screens.
US bank KBW upgraded Bitcoin miner TeraWulf to “outperform” and more than doubled its share price target, citing strong expected growth from its bitcoin mining and data center business and new multi-billion dollar deals.
Chinese tech giants have ordered over 2 million Nvidia H200 AI chips after the US eased export rules, far above initial estimates. Nvidia is asking TSMC to boost production, with shipments to China expected to start in the second half of 2026.
Crypto hacks hit a record $2.72B in 2025, with major exchanges hit and rising organized attacks. At Coinbase, criminals stole customer data and demanded $20M in Bitcoin, forcing the company to spend up to $400M to fix the damage, though no BTC was taken.
Google and Samsung confirm a Wear OS 6 bug is breaking third-party watch faces on Pixel Watch and Galaxy Watch models, causing parts of the always-on screen to overlap the main face. A permanent fix will require an OS update; built-in faces work normally.
An AI-driven romance scam used deepfake video calls to trick a recently divorced Bitcoin investor into sending his entire retirement fund of 1 BTC, highlighting growing use of AI in relationship scams and the difficulty of reversing bitcoin transfers.
California’s new AI safety law takes effect Jan 1, requiring developers of advanced AI systems to publish plans for handling catastrophic risks and report serious safety incidents within 15 days, with fines up to $1 million per violation.
Cybercriminals claim to be selling 200 GB of data stolen from the European Space Agency, including alleged source code, credentials, and confidential documents, after breaching external ESA servers in December. ESA says only a few unclassified servers were hit.
Bitcoin hit a record high above $126,000 in October before a sharp drop to about $80,000 by late November, trimming 2025 gains and cutting into fortunes of major Bitcoin holders, even as more than 190 public companies now hold BTC in their treasuries.
UK startup Space Forge has successfully activated a 1,000°C furnace in orbit to test making computer chips in space. The company says space-made chips could be thousands of times purer than those built on Earth, thanks to microgravity and no air.
Analysts expect Bitcoin to end 2025 below its January peak above $100,000, challenging the long-held four-year cycle view. Despite weaker BTC prices into 2026, payment tools and services are set to make everyday Bitcoin payments easier and more common.
Elon Musk’s xAI has bought a third building at its Memphis site, aiming to boost its AI training capacity to nearly 2 gigawatts. Nvidia has reportedly agreed to supply GPUs as xAI pursues a goal of 50 million H100‑class chips over five years.
IBM warns of a critical bug in its API Connect software (CVE-2025-13915) that lets remote attackers bypass login checks and access the system. Versions 10.0.8.0–10.0.8.5 and 10.0.11.0 are affected, and IBM has released a security fix.
Strategy bought 22,628 bitcoin in December, bringing its holdings to 672,497 BTC, about 3.3% of all Bitcoin. This capped a year in which the firm bought bitcoin in 41 weeks, while Bitcoin’s price fell 4% in December to around $88,000.
China’s new underground Jiangmen Neutrino Observatory has released its first results, measuring how solar neutrinos change type with nearly twice the precision of past experiments, a key step toward figuring out their masses and testing new physics.