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Bitcoin crossed seventy-two thousand dollars this week, erasing billions in bearish positions and marking a historic high for the cryptocurrency. But analysts are urging caution, warning that the rally needs fresh capital to sustain itself. Without new buyers entering the market, momentum alone may not be enough to hold those gains.
Shifting from financial markets to something with far higher stakes, a critical security vulnerability has been discovered in NASA's open-source ground control software. The flaw sits in a browser-based version of the agency's AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, and researchers say an unauthenticated attacker could potentially gain access to spacecraft systems. NASA has yet to publicly address the disclosure, which raises its own set of questions.
And on a related note of infrastructure under threat, Wired is reporting on how China's Volt Typhoon hacking group has been embedding what security researchers are calling digital bombs inside civilian infrastructure. A recent war game simulation explored what a coordinated cyberattack might look like, and the results were sobering. The question now is whether the United States is prepared to respond before those vulnerabilities are ever exploited.
Stay curious, stay skeptical. Tech Beat out.
