December 2025

Bitcoin, altcoins sell-off as Fed chair switch-up, AI bubble fears spook markets 2025-12-16 at 03:06 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman The crypto market corrected as a shake-up in the Trump administration’s Fed chair pick spooked traders, and growing US macroeconomic challenges led investors to risk-off. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original […]

Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us 2025-12-16 at 02:31 By O’Ryan Johnson Palantir’s former IT boss just took over as CEO of Thrive-backed AI MSP platform Former Palantir CIO Jim Siders has departed the company to join Shield Technology Partners as CEO, in a bid he says is meant

Amazon security boss blames Russia’s GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks 2025-12-16 at 02:08 By Jessica Lyons ‘Sustained focus on Western critical infrastructure’ Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers, stealing credentials and compromising misconfigured devices hosted on AWS to give the Kremlin’s snoops persistent access to

Oracle isn’t done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores 2025-12-16 at 00:47 By Tobias Mann Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week Oracle last week announced that it had divested from Ampere Computing. But while Big Red may no longer own

IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks 2025-12-16 at 00:27 By Thomas Claburn Framework looks great for scenarios where a 62 percent completion rate is acceptable IBM researchers have released an open source AI agent called CUGA that aspires to automate complex enterprise workflows and get it

ServiceNow mulls buying Armis to gain full visibility into the IT stack 2025-12-16 at 00:27 By O’Ryan Johnson If the buy happens, the big question is will they integrate the codebase or keep it separate? ServiceNow is reportedly nearing a deal to buy security software company Armis for $7.1 billion to give its customers full

US gov’t launches ‘Tech Force’ to replace IT staff DOGE fired 2025-12-15 at 23:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Washington rediscovers that modern IT doesn’t run itself After dissolving several federal tech modernization units and shedding large numbers of technologists, the Trump administration has launched a new talent recruitment initiative, suggesting it still needs people to help

SEC ’eased up on’ 60% of crypto enforcement cases under Trump: Report 2025-12-15 at 23:38 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The financial regulator dropped several cases against crypto companies in 2025, and is reportedly “no longer actively pursuing a single case against a firm with known Trump ties.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

Bitcoin drops under $86K as $2.78B in BTC whale selling overwhelms active dip buyers 2025-12-15 at 23:38 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Data shows traders bought the Bitcoin price dip, but $2.78 billion in selling by larger entities completely overshadowed the bulls. Can BTC hold above $86,000? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track 2025-12-15 at 23:38 By Tobias Mann And don’t sweat the debt either, we’ve got plenty of capital at our disposal Despite Wall Street jitters and reports to the contrary, Oracle insists its $300 billion datacenter deal with OpenAI is on track

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony 2025-12-15 at 23:38 By Liam Proven Powered by the original mobile Linux OS with crowdsourced specs hands on  After successful crowdfunding, the latest release of the original handheld Linux distro will power a new handset coming in mid-2026.… This article is an excerpt

Circle to acquire Interop Labs team and IP as Axelar remains independent 2025-12-15 at 23:33 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The agreement adds a key interoperability engineering team to Circle, strengthening its crosschain infrastructure and support for multichain applications. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ford killing F-150 EV pickup, warns of whopping $19.5B writedown in dramatic electric shift 2025-12-15 at 23:26 By Reuters Ford said it will pivot hard into gas and hybrid models, and eventually hire thousands of workers. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

SpaceX to launch Wall Street ‘bake-off’ to manage IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire: report 2025-12-15 at 20:58 By Thomas Barrabi SpaceX will reportedly begin hearing pitches from investment banks as it weighs a historic IPO that would propel Elon Musk toward becoming the world’s first trillionaire. This article is an excerpt from

Digital asset ETPs post third straight week of net inflows, led by US demand 2025-12-15 at 20:58 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Bitcoin and Ether accounted for the largest allocations, while short-Bitcoin products posted net outflows, according to CoinShares data. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Trump-backed American Bitcoin flips ProCap in corporate BTC treasury race 2025-12-15 at 20:58 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Corporate Bitcoin buying continues as American Bitcoin surpasses ProCap, even as proxy stocks decline and volatility grips the crypto market. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bot invasion increases with Google scraping the way, Cloudflare says 2025-12-15 at 20:58 By Dan Robinson Mobile traffic now accounts for nearly half of requests Global internet traffic grew by 19 percent during 2025, while nearly half of traffic now comes from mobile devices. A significant and growing portion also comes from bots, many designed

China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns 2025-12-15 at 20:58 By Jessica Lyons Who hasn’t exploited this max-severity flaw? At least five more Chinese spy crews, Iran-linked goons, and financially motivated criminals are now attacking the React2Shell, a maximum-severity flaw in the widely used React JavaScript library, according to Google.… This

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card 2025-12-15 at 20:58 By Brandon Vigliarolo Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift Apple has blocked a long-time developer from his Apple ID after he failed to redeem what support suggested was a dodgy $500 gift card, leaving him unable to