NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter, which stopped responding on December 6 and may be tumbling with a changed orbit. Attempts to spot it using the Curiosity rover’s camera failed, and no further contact can be made until after the Mars solar conjunction ends January 16, 2026.
A record options expiry of about $24B in contracts, including roughly 300,000 BTC options, is set for Friday. Analysts say this large expiry has been holding Bitcoin in a tight range and could clear the way for bigger price swings afterward.
France’s national postal service La Poste has taken its website, apps, and some banking systems offline after a “major network incident,” with local media reporting a suspected DDoS cyberattack during one of the service’s busiest periods of the year.
Bitcoin network use and trading on major exchanges have fallen to yearly lows while price holds around $88,000, with tighter liquidity and reduced short-term trading seen as factors keeping BTC below the $90,000 level
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI, which predicts 3D shapes of proteins, has expanded in AlphaFold 3 to also model DNA, RNA, and drug molecules together, aiming to help scientists simulate whole cells and speed up medical and biological research.
Bitcoin has traded between $85,000 and $90,000 for most of December, as a huge $27 billion batch of bitcoin options set to expire on Dec. 26 has kept price swings low. Traders expect volatility to increase once these contracts run out.
Some Fairphone 4 owners say a recent software update has made their phones unusable. Fairphone has stopped the rollout after finding “unexpected issues” and is investigating the problem.
HashKey Capital, a key player behind Hong Kong’s first spot Bitcoin ETF, has raised $250M for a new fund, signaling continued institutional interest in Bitcoin and blockchain investments despite recent market pullbacks and reduced ETF inflows.
Apple TV sci‑fi series Pluribus ends season one with a hive‑mind world preparing a giant antenna to contact the source of an alien virus, while a survivor receives an atom bomb, setting up a tech‑driven conflict for season two.
Canadian Bitcoin firm Matador has secured approval for a shelf prospectus of up to $58 million, giving it flexibility to quickly raise funds as it expands its bitcoin treasury holdings.
Bitcoin is lagging behind gold as a safe-haven asset. While gold hits new highs on rate cut hopes and geopolitical worries, BTC is struggling to hold key levels, renewing debate over whether Bitcoin really behaves like “digital gold.”
Shark expands its home tech lineup with more robot vacuums and smart cleaning tools, adding options like cordless models and steam cleaners alongside its existing handheld vacuums and hair styling devices.
Researchers propose PhysMaster, an AI agent that acts as an autonomous theoretical and computational physicist, combining reasoning, code, and literature to solve open physics problems and cut some research workflows from months to hours.
Microsoft plans to remove all C and C++ from its products by 2030, using AI tools to translate millions of lines of code into the safer Rust language, and is building new systems to automate these large-scale code changes.
Galaxy’s Alex Thorn says Bitcoin’s record price of about $126,000 in October equals about $99,848 when adjusted for 2020 inflation, meaning BTC has not yet hit $100,000 in 2020 dollar terms.
Waymo released a report on its San Francisco outage, saying its self-driving cars struggled with many dark traffic lights, overloading their human help system. The company had its robotaxis pull over and be returned to depots in stages to ease traffic.
Samsung revealed the Odyssey 3D, a 32-inch 6K gaming monitor that shows 3D without glasses. It tracks your eyes in real time to change depth and perspective, and supports up to a 330Hz refresh rate.
The US will impose new tariffs on computer chips imported from China starting June 23, 2027, after an investigation found China’s chip industry policies hurt US chip makers and other tech sectors such as cars, medical gear, and telecoms.
Bitcoin firm Matador Technologies won approval from the Ontario Securities Commission to sell up to $58.4M in shares and other securities over 25 months, aiming to grow its holdings from 175 BTC to 1,000 BTC by the end of 2026.
The US State Department has barred former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and several online hate and disinformation researchers from entering the country, targeting foreign figures involved in moderating content on social media platforms.
