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Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, is doubling down on Bitcoin even as its crypto holdings sit roughly ten point seven billion dollars underwater. The move comes after Bitcoin fell to its lowest price since October of last year, triggering the company's steepest single-week stock drop since two thousand twenty two. It's a high-stakes bet that either looks visionary or reckless depending on what the market does next.
On a very different kind of vulnerability, Meta says spyware maker NSO Group has not stopped targeting WhatsApp users, despite a landmark legal judgment against the Israeli firm. The finding is a reminder that court victories don't automatically translate into safer software. Mercenary spyware remains a live threat for journalists, activists, and ordinary users alike.
And a new United Nations report is raising hard questions about the physical cost of the artificial intelligence boom. The report warns that AI infrastructure is drawing heavily on water and land resources, with the environmental burden falling disproportionately on poorer communities while the financial gains concentrate elsewhere. It's a trade-off that the industry has largely avoided accounting for.
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