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The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.

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Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modelling to determine what most likely caused an extreme ice-age climate in Earth’s history.

Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.

Cutting in front of someone who’s been waiting patiently in line used to be unethical, bad manners, taboo. Now, businesses are letting people pay for the privilege of skipping the line.

"It is our belief that the bill’s current language around parts pairing will undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices."

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A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help

Governments are increasingly considering integrating autonomous AI agents in high-stakes military and foreign-policy decision-making, especially with the emergence of advanced generative AI models...

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said an operator of a 737 Max plane discovered loose bolts in a rudder control system for the plane. The FAA said it received a report about a missing …

You need a heat pump, ASAP. Now nine states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of this climate superhero.

Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he’s learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.

Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.

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