Apple and Google must roll out digital ID tools in Missouri by Nov. 30, 2025, under a new law requiring online age checks for sites with significant adult content. Non‑compliant companies could face fines of up to $10,000 per day.
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Bitcoin rose about 7% this week as three major US-listed Bitcoin mining stocks posted double-digit gains over five days, coinciding with prediction market odds for a December US interest rate cut climbing to 87% on Polymarket.
Dyson’s new HushJet Purifier Compact tabletop air purifier, which uses long-lasting electrostatic filtration instead of typical HEPA filters, is now available after being announced in September and is already on sale for Black Friday.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple may use Intel to make its M-series Mac chips starting in 2027, with Intel expected to ship Apple’s lowest-end M chips on its new 18A process if key design tools arrive on schedule in 2026.
Bitcoin has bounced back above $90,000 after weeks of declines, putting many Bitcoin ETF buyers back in profit. Despite a weak November, ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood says the firm still expects BTC could reach $1.5 million by 2030.
An Australian man was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for running fake in-flight and airport WiFi networks that copied real ones, tricking travelers into logging in and stealing their social media passwords and private photos.
South Korea’s top financial regulator has expanded its “travel rule,” increasing oversight of Bitcoin and other crypto transactions to tighten monitoring and improve transparency in digital asset transfers.
Waymo has been ordered to stop overnight operations at two Santa Monica charging hubs after a year of complaints about constant noise from its self-driving taxis, including mandatory backup beeps and equipment hum; the city is threatening legal action.
Major blockchains, including Bitcoin, are starting to plan upgrades to protect BTC from future quantum computers that could fake transactions by cracking old security methods, with governments aiming for quantum-safe systems by the 2030s.
Researchers shrank China’s DeepSeek R1 chatbot by 55% and removed its built‑in censorship using a new compression method, allowing it to freely answer previously blocked questions like what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Bitcoin fell from a brief $120,000 peak to the $80,000 range in a sharp market drop that erased over $1.2 trillion from crypto. Analysts say the move is a liquidity-driven correction tied to changing Federal Reserve rate expectations, not a systemic crisis.
The US House and White House are weighing moves to block state-level AI laws, using the defense bill and a draft executive order that would let federal agencies challenge state AI regulations and push national rules that override them.
Bitcoin fell over 20% in November, dropping from about $110,000 to $91,000 and briefly sliding below $100,000 for the first time since May 2025, as broader market worries and institutional-driven selling weighed on BTC.
South Korea has halted its nationwide rollout of 76 AI-generated school textbooks after just four months, following widespread complaints from students and teachers about errors, delays, and increased workloads in classrooms.
Bitcoin mining in 2025 is more industrial and competitive than ever after four halvings, with record hashrate but shrinking rewards and power shortages squeezing miners. Solo and hobbyist miners are quietly returning thanks to more efficient tools and home setups.
Eli Lilly has become the first healthcare company valued at $1T on the strength of its weight-loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound, underscoring how new biotech treatments can rapidly reshape both medicine and the global tech-driven economy.
Economist Paul Krugman says Bitcoin’s recent drop is tied to what he sees as former President Donald Trump losing political influence.
Meta will ban third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Copilot from using WhatsApp’s API starting Jan 15, 2026, forcing them to leave the app and effectively making Meta’s own chatbot the only built-in AI assistant available to WhatsApp users.
Nasdaq has asked the SEC to quadruple options limits on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust to one million contracts. The move would let big investors hedge larger BTC positions on a regulated market and could increase both liquidity and price swings.
The UK has set a £1.8 billion budget over three years for a national digital ID system for all legal residents by 2029, with costs to be covered from existing government department budgets and no detailed savings plan yet identified.