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Bitcoin is taking a beating today, sliding to near sixty-two thousand dollars as enthusiasm around artificial intelligence investments cools. Broadcom's underwhelming outlook for AI chip sales rattled markets from the Nasdaq to Asian equities, and crypto followed right along for the ride.
That AI anxiety connects to our next story, where Microsoft is pressing forward with something called Project Solara, a new platform designed specifically for what the company calls agent-first devices. The idea is that AI agents become the primary interface layer, not apps, not browsers — agents. It's an ambitious architectural bet, and Microsoft is clearly racing to define what that future looks like before someone else does.
And for anyone who relies on Hagezi's DNS blocklist to keep ads and trackers off their network, there's a practical headache this morning. The blocklist is currently returning a four-oh-four error, meaning automated updates are failing silently for many users. It's a small story, but a reminder of how much of our personal internet infrastructure depends on the quiet, uninterrupted work of individual maintainers.
Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
