3D printer that can mine Bitcoin uses excess heat for temperature control — throttled ASICs use printing bed as a heatsink

The creator of a 3D printer that mines Bitcoin took part in an interview on the Home Mining Podcast at the weekend.

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Researchers build atom-thin 2D thermometers that can be embedded directly in processors — can detect temperature changes in 100 nanoseconds, millions of times faster than the blink of an eye

Processors currently rely on temperature sensors positioned outside the chip die itself, which limits both the speed and precision of thermal monitoring.
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Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant can be easily jailbroken and tricked into answering other questions — specific prompts break the chatbot’s guidelines and reach underlying AI engine

Rufus, the AI assistant meant to make shopping on Amazon easier, can actually just answer any question you throw at it as long as it’s prompted right. It allegedly runs Claude under the hood, and people have been able to g…

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China warns of fresh chip shortage as Nexperia dispute escalates again – Dutch headquarters allegedly locked Chinese staff out of IT systems

China’s commerce ministry warned on Saturday of a renewed global semiconductor supply chain crisis, after Nexperia’s Netherlands disabled IT accounts for all employees at its Chinese operations.
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OpenAI’s massive Stargate data center canceled as firm can’t reach terms with Oracle, operator struggles with reliability issues — Meta said to be interested in snatching excess capacity

Financing terms and swinging OpenAI capacity forecast collapse a major expansion of a Stargate data center. Yet, Meta could take the yet-to-be-expanded space.
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NASA successfully deflected a small asteroid with its DART rocket, kinetic strike ejected a significant amount of debris from the asteroid — impact nudges the orbit of the small astronomical body, affecting the larger cosmic object as well

The U.S. space agency measured the impact of its DART mission, revealing that the impact changed the orbit of two cosmic bodies.
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Norwegian gov’t consumer watchdog calls out ‘enshittification’ of video games, connected devices, and others — claims hardware deliberately degraded after purchase

“Companies can degrade the functionality of your car or effectively destroy your connected washing machine with a software update,” says the report.
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Jensen Huang set to receive $4 million bonus from Nvidia, 0.002% of his $164 billion net worth — a small incentive for one of the richest people on earth

The Nvidia compensation committee set a $4 million cash bonus for Jensen Huang if he hits the company’s fiscal targets by January 31, 2027.
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Engineer receives $30,000 for exposing a vulnerability affecting 7,000 robot vacuum cleaners — tinkerer just wanted to drive his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller

A software engineer gets access to 7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners while tinkering with an idea to use a gamepad to control his robotic hoover. Gets $30,000 from DJI for an undisclosed discovery.
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Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs and freeze hiring as AI data center bets ignite financial perfect storm — cuts in cloud division to be backfilled with AI

Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs, could freeze hiring for cloud division

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