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Bitcoin crossed sixty-four thousand dollars today even as most major cryptocurrencies slipped, and there's a structural story underneath that price move worth watching. Miners have quietly cut their computing power by roughly a fifth over three quarters, redirecting that infrastructure toward AI workloads where the margins are increasingly more attractive. Meanwhile Venice, a privacy-focused AI token, jumped ten percent after the company reported it had crossed one hundred million dollars in annualised revenue — a signal that niche AI platforms are finding real paying customers.
On a very different note, Cursor, the AI coding assistant, chose Monday morning to begin rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, as a direct challenge to GitHub. Then, roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub suffered a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation, with error rates approaching twenty percent across pull requests and the API, and nearly fifty percent on file downloads. Whether that timing was coincidence or a quiet stroke of competitive fortune, Cursor could not have scripted a better opening.
And finally, a sobering look at the web itself. A review of five thousand of the most widely visited domains found that almost nobody is writing standards-compliant HTML anymore. The sites we all depend on daily are increasingly built on a foundation of quiet technical debt, which raises real questions about long-term accessibility and reliability.
Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
