Short the dip and buy the rip? What FOMC outcomes reveal about Bitcoin price action
Bitcoin’s reaction to FOMC decisions often conflicts with traders’ predictions. Will today’s Federal Reserve interest rate outcome lead to a rally or sell-off?
Month: December 2025
The Echo Spot is just $45, beating its Black Friday price
The Echo Spot is a gift that pulls double duty, acting as a smart speaker, alarm, and even smart home controller. If you want a cheap gift that feels expensive, the Echo Spot is a great pick. The versatile smart display can handle dozens of everyday tasks, and right now it’s back at its all-time … Read more
Amazon changes how copyright protection is applied to Kindle Direct’s self-published ebooks
Amazon says its Kindle Direct DRM-free titles will be available as PDFs and EPUB files going forward.
GameStop Posted $9.4M Loss on Bitcoin Holdings in Q3
The firm has not announced any new bitcoin purchases since May, when it bought 4,710 BTC.
Tether Rolls Out Privacy-Focused Health App as Expansion Into AI Accelerates
The company behind the largest stablecoin, the $186 billion USDT, is increasingly venturing beyond crypto into sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics.
Teachers union claims risks to retirement funds in crypto market structure
The letter to the US Senate Banking Committee cited opposition to the digital asset market structure bill, echoing concerns from other labor groups.
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Hard Problems Are Easier, Once You Think Like This (12/10/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 10, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, George Jennings, Inventor of the Toilet, was Born in 1810, Unity bought Weta Digital tech division in 2021, Ernest Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in 1939, and we … Read more
Investors Are Hunting for Countercyclical Value in Privacy Coins
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Carter Feldman writes that the bear market makes this a prime moment for privacy coins, signaling growing user demand for true financial autonomy. Then, we dive into Ethereum with Andy Baehr’s “vibe check” – when ETH rallies, it may signal something larger is afoot.
Hard Problems Are Easier, Once You Think Like This
Ask most people to multiply 97 × 96 in their head, and they’ll freeze. Ask someone who’s mastered mental math, and they’ll give you the answer in seconds: 9,312. Here’s what they did differently: They didn’t multiply 97 × 96 directly. They saw it as (100 – 3) × (100 – 4), which becomes 10,000 … Read more
There are no good outcomes for the Warner Bros. sale
Netflix is the frontrunner to become Warner Bros.’ new owner, but the war for control of the legacy studio isn’t over just yet. Paramount Skydance has made its own outsize offer for the company that would give CEO David Ellison even more control over the news and entertainment landscape. And while Warner Bros. Discovery has … Read more
No one knows what to call these things
Meta calls its Ray-Ban glasses AI glasses. I asked a simple question at Google’s Project Aura demo last week. What do you call these things? To my surprise, multiple people launched into a vigorous discussion on the taxonomy of glasses-shaped face computers. It turns out “smart glasses” is out as a term. The term “AI … Read more
The Pixel Watch 4 is getting new one-handed gestures and better smart replies
Double pinch lets you dismiss notifications or | Image: Google Google has started to roll out the first update for the Pixel Watch 4 since the wearable launched last August. WearOS 6.1 is available for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 models, but only the Pixel Watch 4 will be getting a pair of … Read more
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Strategy Pushes Back on MSCI’s Digital Asset Exclusion Proposal
Michale Saylor and team urged MSCI to maintain neutral index standards after a plan to exclude firms with significant digital asset holdings.
ChatGPT is Apple’s most downloaded app of 2025 in the US
This is ChatGPT’s first year as the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store by downloads.
Amazon now offers same-day delivery of perishable groceries in 2,300 US cities
The e-commerce giant says it will expand the service to additional cities in 2026.
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Bitcoin hikes volatility into ‘tricky’ FOMC as $93.5K yearly open fails
Bitcoin whipsawed around the key yearly open level into the Fed interest-rate announcement as traders waited for a reliable move.
SpaceX’s $300M Bitcoin Stack Puts Crypto Inside the World’s Biggest Planned IPO
The Elon Musk–run company is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise “significantly more than $30 billion.” Even relatively small balance-sheet allocations matter at that scale.
OpenAI hires Slack’s CEO as its chief revenue officer
Denise Dresser has served as CEO of Slack since 2023. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images OpenAI is bringing Slack CEO Denise Dresser on board to serve as the AI giant’s chief revenue officer. In an announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI says Dresser will oversee the company’s global revenue strategy, while helping “more businesses put AI … Read more
Tech’s Attempt To Conquer Hollywood
Welcome to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon’s brand-new Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and related polls around the web. Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations! We asked a simple question with complicated consequences. Is tech finally coming for Hollywood? That’s the question we put to readers recently in … Read more