After spending the morning flirting with the dungeon below $88,000, BTC clawed its way upward and blasted to an intraday high of $91,767. Bitcoin’s latest rebound didn’t just flip the script on weekend traders — it triggered a full-blown liquidation bonfire across the crypto market as deep-pocketed buyers muscled shorts into oblivion.
Heavy Buyers Reappear
Bitcoin’s weekend swing didn’t…
Blackrock CEO Doubles Down on Bitcoin While Urging Faster Tokenization of All Assets
December 8, 2025
Blackrock’s chief executive explained a dramatic pivot toward bitcoin’s long-term potential, framing the asset as protection in an era of fiscal strain while championing tokenization as the next force set to reshape global markets.
Blackrock CEO Backs Bitcoin While…
Bitcoin ETFs Rebound to Inflows as Ether Outflows Deepen
December 8, 2025
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) snapped back into positive territory with healthy inflows, while ether ETFs logged another day of red. Solana and XRP maintained momentum with steady entries, signaling that investor appetite is shifting more broadly across the crypto ETF…
In the middle of Mauritania’s Sahara Desert, surrounded by an ocean of sand, lies a colossal stone spiral that seems almost too perfect to be natural. From orbit, in a recent image taken by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission, it looks like a target etched into the desert: the Richat Structure, better known as the Eye of the Sahara.
What is it?
The…
December's 'Cold Moon' rises: See breathtaking images of the final full moon of 2025
December 8, 2025
The final full moon of 2025 treated stargazers to a high-flying lunar spectacle as the “Cold Moon” glowed among the stars of the constellation Taurus on Dec. 4.
December’s full moon was the third in a string of “Supermoons” — full moons that…
A team of international researchers say they’ve uncovered new data on the world’s first recorded solar eclipse using a surprising source — ancient Chinese texts. These findings could help us understand more about the progression of the Earth’s rotation…
ChatGPT’s user growth has slowed, report finds
December 8, 2025
ChatGPT’s growth is starting to taper off, according to new data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Today, the OpenAI-owned AI chatbot remains the leader in the space, accounting for 50% of global downloads on mobile devices and 55% of the global monthly active users. However, Google’s Gemini has begun to outpace ChatGPT in terms of download growth, growth of monthly active…
If Amazon Web Services’ annual re:Invent tech conference proves anything, it’s that the cloud infrastructure player is going all in on AI.
AWS made dozens of announcements, from new AI agents and updated large language models, to products with LLM and…
The New York Times filed suit Friday against AI search startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, its second lawsuit against an AI company. The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week.
The…
RIP Martin Parr: the photographer who found joy in the ordinary
December 8, 2025
I’ve just heard the news, and it’s hit me hard. Martin Parr, the photographer who made a career out of documenting Britain’s working-class holidays, village fetes and supermarket queues in gloriously oversaturated colour, died at his home in Bristol on Saturday. He was 73.
I won’t lie, we’re all in shock. My editor Chris George saw him only a few weeks ago, at a talk…
