Hundreds of Google employees demanded the company cut ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an open letter published on Friday, while the price of Bitcoin fell to its lowest level in 16 months, and the EU told TikTok to change its "addictive design" or face heavy fines.
Nearly 900 full-time Google employees expressed their concerns over the company's ties to the federal government's immigration enforcement, which, according to multiple sources, has recently turned violent and deadly. The employees demanded more transparency regarding how Google's technology is being used within the U.S. government. Google has contracts to provide federal agencies with cloud services and also has links to work being done on federal immigration enforcement. A Google employee of seven years stated they found it "mind-boggling" that Google was maintaining its ties with ICE.
The price of Bitcoin experienced a significant drop, falling to its lowest level since September 2024, despite former U.S. President Donald Trump's public support for cryptocurrency. A single Bitcoin reached as low as $60,000 before slightly recovering. This decline followed months of rising prices, which saw the cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of $122,200 in October 2025. Joshua Chu, co-chair of the Hong Kong Web3 Association, told Reuters that investors who "bet too big, borrowed too much or assumed prices only go up are now finding out the hard way what real market volatility and risk management look like."
In other news, the European Union informed TikTok that it must alter its "addictive design" or face substantial fines. The EU's decision followed an investigation that began in February 2024 into the Chinese-owned app by the European Commission. The Commission's preliminary findings indicated that TikTok did not "adequately assess" how features like autoplay could harm users, including children, and failed to implement measures to mitigate the risks. A TikTok spokesperson told the BBC that the findings presented a "categorically false and entirely meritless depiction of our platform" and that the company planned to challenge them.
In addition to these developments, the traditional chief of a Nigerian village recounted a night of terror where jihadists massacred residents earlier in the week. The attackers killed two of his sons and kidnapped his wife and three daughters.
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