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View More NewsBitcoin mining company Bitdeer has signed a 16-year lease agreement valued at as much as $4.7 billion to secure artificial intelligence and high-performance computing data center capacity, underscoring how crypto miners are increasingly expanding into AI infrastructure as demand for computing power grows.Under the agreement, Bitdeer will provide 121 megawatts of IT capacity at its Tydal, Norway, AI data center to a tenant that the company identified only as a subsidiary of Volta Infra. The facility will be configured to support Nvidia GPU-based AI workloads, though Bitdeer did not disclose the tenant’s identity or specify whether Volta is the end…
In brief Trezor and Foundation both reported a surge in phishing attempts targeting hardware wallet owners following the Coldcard exploit. Proofpoint identified a phishing campaign targeting Coldcard holders with a cloned site and “Hardware Audit” that installs remote-access software. A person, rather than a bot, staffs the fake site’s customer service chat and talks victims through the install. Hardware wallet manufacturers Trezor and Foundation have warned of a surge in phishing attempts trading on the Coldcard firmware exploit, with scammers chasing users’ recovery phrases and pushing malicious downloads.Trezor said it was already seeing an increase in phishing attempts following the…
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This week on the Quillette podcast, I’ll be speaking with Ashley Rubin, a professor at the University of Hawaii, and the co-author of a recently released report commissioned by Vanderbilt University and Washington University, titled Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences.Professor Rubin and her co-authors sound the alarm over recent illiberal trends that have taken over, to varying degrees, history, philosophy, literature, and the arts more generally, including Prof. Rubin’s own discipline, sociology. The authors are careful to note that they don’t object to the progressive political slant of the humanities more…
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Recent earnings calls from Open USD’s highest-profile backers, however, paint a more nuanced picture. Executives at Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard all said they intend…
Bitmine said it now holds about 4.8% of Ether’s circulating supply as it pursues its 5% acquisition target. Read the full article here
Since July 30, attackers have drained thousands of BTC from Coldcard-generated wallets, exploiting a flaw dating back to March 2021. According to researchers at…
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July issued a proposed policy statement “concerning the suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems.” We urge the…
from the can-they-all-lose? dept Last week we wrote about how Elon Musk’s xAI had filed a lawsuit to attempt to block Minnesota’s anti-nudify app…
I have previously written about Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs against Canada, using Section 338 of the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Today, I…
A supervising U.S. FBI agent who worked in intelligence at the national headquarters has been arrested and accused in a federal court filing of…
Trump-linked Bitcoin miner produced a record 932 BTC in the second quarter, lifting mining revenue 8% as its net loss narrowed from the previous…
In brief UCLA researchers launched an OnlyFans account called OnlyMarms after traditional research funding became harder to secure. More than 10 OnlyMarms-inspired meme coins…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by Associate Editor Liz Wolfe to discuss whether democratic socialism is gaining ground beyond the coasts and what the…
South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Bithumb said Monday it is preparing for a 2028 initial public offering (IPO) following a major internal reorganization to…