How Bitcoin mining devastated this New York town

If, in 2017, you had taken a gamble and purchased a comparatively new digital currency called Bitcoin, today you would be a millionaire many times over. But while the industry has provided windfalls for some, local communities have paid a price. Cryptocurrency is created by computers solving complicated mathematical equations—a […]

Microsoft says it will pay up to $26K more, an increase of 30% in some cases, in bug bounties for “high-impact” bugs in its Office 365 products (Jessica Lyons Hardcastle/The Register)

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register:Microsoft says it will pay up to $26K more, an increase of 30% in some cases, in bug bounties for “high-impact” bugs in its Office 365 products  —  Plus: HP fixes critical Teradici flaws, Karakurt may be a Conti side hustle, and info-stealing malware set […]

Spotify’s recent Podsights and Chartable acquisitions are raising concerns over the availability of third-party podcast metrics for advertisers and publishers (Alyssa Meyers/Morning Brew)

Alyssa Meyers / Morning Brew:Spotify’s recent Podsights and Chartable acquisitions are raising concerns over the availability of third-party podcast metrics for advertisers and publishers  —  Some say it significantly reduces the number of third-party measurement options available.  —  When Spotify announced its acquisition …

A look at Lumafield, which designs CT scanners for consumer products companies like L’Oreal, OXO, and Trek Bicycle, and has raised $32.5M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Amy Feldman / Forbes:A look at Lumafield, which designs CT scanners for consumer products companies like L’Oreal, OXO, and Trek Bicycle, and has raised $32.5M  —  Lumafield emerges from stealth with $32.5 million in funding and early customers that include L’Oreal, OXO and Trek Bicycle.

A $620 million hack? Just another day in crypto

The FBI said on Thursday that the Lazarus Group, a prolific hacking team run by the North Korean government, is responsible for the March 2022 hack of a cryptocurrency platform called Ronin Network.  The hackers stole $620 million in the cryptocurrency Ethereum. That’s an eye-catching number in almost any context. […]

PitchBook: global AI chip sales grew 60% YoY to $35.9B in 2021; semiconductor startups got $1.8B in VC funding in 2021, up from $1.4B in 2020 and $1.1B in 2019 (Max A. Cherney/Protocol)

Max A. Cherney / Protocol:PitchBook: global AI chip sales grew 60% YoY to $35.9B in 2021; semiconductor startups got $1.8B in VC funding in 2021, up from $1.4B in 2020 and $1.1B in 2019  —  The raw computational power necessary to use machine learning has dwarfed everything else we use […]