Precious metals crash, with silver plunging 35%, gold 12%; bitcoin holds at $83,000
Crypto bulls who have theorized that bitcoin can’t begin rising until money flows out of red-hot precious metals are about to find out if they were correct.
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Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is nearly 75 percent off today
In case you missed it, we recently overhauled our guides to the best budget robot vacuums and the best mopping vacs, both of which feature a slate of new picks from Roborock, Narwal, Dreame, and others. Dyson’s 360 Vis Nav Robot Vacuum didn’t technically make the cut, though it was once one of our top … Read more
Price predictions 1/30: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, ADA, BCH, HYPE, XMR
Technical charts tilt toward further downside for Bitcoin and altcoins if BTC’s critical $80,000 fails to hold. Does data suggest that bulls are buying the dips?
Why proof-of-reserves alone doesn’t build real trust
Proof-of-reserves shows assets at a single point in time, but it does not prove solvency, liquidity or sound governance. Here is what PoR misses and what real trust looks like.
Liquidations knock Bitcoin out of world’s top 10 assets
A wave of leveraged liquidations erased hundreds of billions in value, reshuffling Bitcoin’s standing among the world’s largest investable assets.
Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy
What responsibility do you have to speak up about bad things happening in the world? Does that responsibility change when speaking up might affect your business? What about if you’re a sports creator, or the moderator of a deeply NSFW subreddit? What about if you’re just a little ol’ phone website? Ultimately, everyone has to … Read more
Hong Kong regulators to submit draft bill for crypto framework in 2026
An official said that Hong Kong authorities would work on a draft framework, and had begun processing license applications for stablecoin issuers and addressing crypto taxes.
Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork
The company says you can use plug-ins to “tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes.”
Blank Check Firm Linked to Crypto Exchange Kraken Raises $345 Million in Upsized IPO
A new special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) tied to crypto exchange Kraken completed its IPO, raising $345 million.
Visa and Mastercard aren’t buying the stablecoin hype for everyday payments
Despite crypto’s promise of faster, cheaper transactions, the payments giants aren’t buying the stablecoin pitch, at least not in developed markets.
Brian Armstrong was snubbed by top executives from the biggest U.S. banks in Davos: WSJ
Stablecoin rewards and the Clarity Act widen the divide between crypto and TradFi, according to people who spoke with the WSJ.
ICE invades Minnesota and Minnesotans fight back
Protesters at the intersection of 26th and Nicollett after federal and local law enforcement left the scene of a fatal shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Reports say that 37-year-old Alex Pretti was the victim of the fatal shooting by federal officers, who was at the scene as an observer. The incident was captured … Read more
Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands
Bluesky’s first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.
You can now use Nintendo’s wireless N64 controller with the Analogue 3D
You’ll still need to be a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber to buy the wireless N64 controller. | Image: Nintendo The Analogue 3D finally launched late last year with four controller ports on the front supporting the N64’s original wired gamepads. If you wanted to go wireless, your best option was the 8BitDo 64 which offered … Read more
Simplify ModelOps with Amazon SageMaker AI Projects using Amazon S3-based templates
Managing ModelOps workflows can be complex and time-consuming. If you’ve struggled with setting up project templates for your data science team, you know that the previous approach using AWS Service Catalog required configuring portfolios, products, and managing complex permissions—adding significant administrative overhead before your team could start building machine learning (ML) pipelines. Amazon SageMaker AI … Read more
Scale AI in South Africa using Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference with Anthropic Claude 4.5 models
Building AI applications with Amazon Bedrock presents throughput challenges impacting the scalability of your applications. Global cross-Region inference in the af-south-1 AWS Region changes that. You can now invoke models from the Cape Town Region while Amazon Bedrock automatically routes requests to Regions with available capacity. Your applications get consistent response times, your users get reliable experiences, … Read more
Vitalik Buterin Withdraws $44.7M in ETH to Support Ethereum Growth Through ‘Mild Austerity’
The Ethereum co-founder wants to pursue an “aggressive” roadmap that will strengthen its status as a decentralized world computer.
This DIY kit turned my favorite mechanical keyboard into my favorite electrocapacitive keyboard
For my money, you simply cannot get a better electrocapacitive keyboard than the Bauer Lite with a DynaCap kit. [Editor’s note: Huh?] You can get a nicer EC keyboard, without having to build it yourself, by simply spending $3,600 on a Norbauer Seneca. Or you can get a Happy Hacking Keyboard or a Realforce for … Read more
Nubank wins conditional US approval to form national bank
The conditional approval moves the Latin American fintech into the bank organization phase as it seeks to expand regulated banking and crypto services in the United States.
Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley leaders to stop bending the knee to President Trump
Some Valley CEOs have condemned recent border patrol events, but Hoffman urges them to wield their influence more powerfully.
Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says
The Polish government accused a Russian government hacking group of hacking into energy facilities taking advantage of default usernames and passwords.
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Who is Kevin Warsh? Here is what Trump nominee for Fed chair said about bitcoin and rates
The former Federal Reserve governor has invested in crypto firms, criticized bitcoin’s role as money and argued for a U.S. digital dollar.
Belkin’s Wemo smart devices will go offline on Saturday
As of Saturday, nearly all of Belkin’s Wemo smart home devices will lose access to cloud services, including features like remote access and integrations with Google Home and Alexa. Belkin will also end app updates for the Wemo app beginning on January 31st. The shut down was first announced in July and impacts most Wemo … Read more
What Trump’s Fed Pick Kevin Warsh Means for Crypto
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell, elevating a former Fed governor with mixed views on crypto.