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Bitcoin took a sharp hit today, briefly falling below sixty-two thousand dollars as one point five billion in leveraged long positions were wiped out in a matter of hours. Analysts point to traders rotating out of crypto and chasing momentum in AI stocks and high-profile IPOs, with gold also pulling ahead as rate cut expectations continue to fade.
Shifting to a quieter but genuinely unsettling security story — a researcher has demonstrated how a LoRa radio node with a carefully crafted name can trigger a cross-site scripting attack inside Home Assistant, potentially giving an attacker root-level access. It's a reminder that the physical and digital edges of smart home systems are rarely as separate as we'd like to think.
And in a story with consequences far beyond tech, the United States is moving to dismantle the ocean monitoring network that tracks Atlantic current systems, the very systems scientists warn could be approaching collapse. Losing that observational infrastructure doesn't just leave researchers in the dark — it removes one of our clearest early warning systems for a potentially catastrophic climate shift.
That's where things stand today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
