Bitcoin Miner Survey Proposal to be Up for Comment
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The Week in Ransomware – March 1st 2024
Ransomware attacks on healthcare over the last few months have been relentless, with numerous ransomware operations targeting hospitals and medical services, causing disruption to patient care and access to prescription drugs in the USA. The most impactful attack of 2024 so far is the attack on UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary Change Healthcare, which has had significant […]
BlackRock’s IBIT Joins Elite ‘$10 Billion Club’ Amidst Soaring Demand
The demand for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has surged since their recent approval on January 10, with BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF leading the way. This ETF has reached impressive milestones in less than two months, attracting significant investor interest and opening doors for various market participants to invest in the largest cryptocurrency directly. As […]
Ron DeSantis vetoes Florida bill banning social media for most kids
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) vetoed what would have been one of the nation’s most restrictive bans against children using social media on Friday, drawing a line in the debate over kids’ online safety over concerns the bill did not allow parents to supervise teens’ activity. The bill is the latest in a series of […]
Polestar funding boost confirmed, but Volvo hole not filled
A major funding boost for ailing Chinese-Swedish electric vehicle (EV) specialist Polestar may not be enough for the brand to break even, as it fights for relevancy in an increasingly crowded market. This week, Polestar announced it had secured US$950 million (A$1.46 billion) in funding from “a syndicate of global banks”. The near billion-dollar injection […]
3D Printed Pinhole Cameras | MatterHackers
Up your photography game and print your own pinhole camera like Todd Schlemmer, MatterHackers’ September Hacker of the Month. Posted on September 7, 2016 by Rhonda Grandy We love when 3D printing collides with long-standing hobbies. Enter: Todd Schlemmer, our September Hacker of the Month, and his passion for pinhole cameras and photography. Schlemmer has […]
4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss
More than a decade ago, the concept of the ‘blameless’ postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John Allspaw, who coined the term during his tenure at Etsy, argued postmortems were all about controlling our natural reaction to an incident, which is to point fingers: “One option is to assume the single cause […]