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Bitcoin is holding its ground above a key technical level that rival cryptocurrencies ethereum and solana have so far failed to clear. Dominance metrics are ticking upward from last week's lows, suggesting capital is rotating back into the flagship asset while altcoins struggle to find their footing.
Shifting to a story with real stakes for privacy, the United Kingdom is pushing legislation that would require message scanning directly on users' devices, with jail time threatened for tech executives who refuse to comply. Critics argue this effectively dismantles end-to-end encryption from the inside, and the pressure on that front is growing, as a separate analysis this week notes that sophisticated threat actors have largely stopped trying to break encryption outright and are instead targeting everything around it — metadata, backups, and platform infrastructure.
And on the environmental cost of artificial intelligence, new projections suggest data centers could consume up to six hundred billion gallons of water by two thousand thirty. The culprit is largely energy demand, since cooling the power systems behind those GPUs requires far more water than cooling the chips themselves — and next-generation hardware is only expected to make the problem worse.
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