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Bitcoin slid below seventy-five thousand dollars overnight, hitting its lowest point in a month as crypto markets took a significant hit. Exchange-traded funds tied to the asset shed more than one point two five billion dollars across the week, with nearly one billion in liquidations rattling investor confidence in what has been a bruising stretch for the sector.
Shifting to the gaming world, IO Interactive's new James Bond title, double-oh-seven First Light, has drawn sharp criticism after the studio quietly added Denuvo digital rights management software just before launch. Pre-order customers are frustrated by the prospect of frame rate drops and mandatory online check-ins, while the irony is hard to miss — every version of Denuvo has already been cracked, meaning pirates are expected to have a clean copy within days of release.
And on a more urgent note, the Ebola outbreak now under way has become the third largest ever recorded, according to Ars Technica, citing health officials who describe it as spreading rapidly. It is a reminder that the most consequential technology stories are sometimes really public health stories, and that the infrastructure we use to monitor and respond to outbreaks matters enormously.
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