Large Immersion Cooled Crypto Mining Farms to Extract Bitcoin in Middle East Desert
A project to build two large-scale facilities for cryptocurrency mining is underway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The high-tech data centers will rely on a full immersion solution to cool the power-hungry miners as the desert climate renders air-cooled mining infeasible, participants said. Advanced Crypto Mining Facilities in Abu Dhabi to Defy Cooling Challenges in Arab Peninsula Marathon Digital Holdings, a leading U.S.-based...
SEC Chair Warns US Default Would Have ‘Significant’ and ‘Lasting Effects’ on Investors, Markets
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has warned that the U.S. Treasury defaulting on its debt obligations “would have very significant, hard to predict, and likely lasting effects on investors, issuers, and markets alike.” Gensler stressed: “We’ve already seen an effect in the pricing and liquidity of short-dated Treasury bills and continue to monitor for any additional tremors.” SEC Chair Gary Gensler on...
Z-Library Warns Against ‘Fraudulent’ and ‘Unsafe’ Copycats With Millions of Users
Over the years, Z-Library established itself as a premier source of pirated books, serving an audience of millions of users. Up until a few months ago, this all happened relatively quiet. However, when the United States launched a criminal case against two alleged operators, everything changed. Z-Library lost access to over 200 domain names late last year and, just last week, the authorities carried out a new seizure round. Despite...
Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp
The social network’s new privacy feature is technically flawed, opt-in, and limited in its functionality. All this for just $8 a month. Powered by WPeMatico
How to Reclaim Your Online Privacy
We talk to the Signal Foundation’s Meredith Whittaker about how the surveillance economy is newer than we all might realize—and what we can do to fight back. Powered by WPeMatico
