7+ hour, 27+ min ago   (453+ words) Mexican drug cartels are increasingly embracing crypto mining: in the mountains of Puebla state, law enforcement discovered a hidden farm with hundreds of graphics processors, industrial energy equipment, and satellite communications. The operation took place in the city of Tlaola,…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (154+ words) Bitcoin news reveals cartels may use GPUs for mining, raising concerns about their actual purpose. Here's why this matters. Mexican cartels reportedly use GPUs to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The report raises questions about the true purpose of these…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago   (594+ words) Mexican authorities seized 300 GPUs from a hidden crypto mine linked to cartel funding, exposing a growing illicit mining scheme. Mexican authorities have lately busted a hidden crypto mine deep in the mountains of Puebla. Agents hauled out 300 GPUs, 80 medium-voltage terminals,…...

7+ hour, 49+ min ago   (219+ words) Mexican authorities have dismantled a suspected clandestine cryptocurrency mining operation. The remote site has been found in the mountainous Tlaola region of Puebla. The authorities have uncovered hundreds of specialized computing units. The authorities are now investigating that the units…...

7+ hour, 58+ min ago   (788+ words) Mexican authorities have seized roughly 300 GPUs from a suspected illicit crypto mining farm in Puebla while investigating possible electricity theft and money laundering. Reuters reported on Sept. 12 that investigators discovered the operation in the mountainous municipality of Tlaola, near infrastructure…...

9+ hour, 35+ min ago   (269+ words) None of this infrastructure exists because Australian buyers suddenly distrust American technology on principle. It exists because the procurement rules changed, and providers that can tick every box on the DTA’s five-point sovereignty test now have a structural advantage bidding…...

9+ hour, 36+ min ago   (211+ words) In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding…...

21+ hour, 31+ min ago   (159+ words) Seoul Economic Daily Neocloud refers to cloud providers and services that specialize in supplying high-performance computing resources such as graphics processing units (GPUs) needed to develop and run artificial intelligence services Unlike general-purpose cloud services such as Amazon Web Services,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (108+ words) Hagerty Holding Corp. is selling 9.25 million Hagerty shares at $11.95 each in an upsized secondary offering valued at approximately $110.5 million. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase an additional 1.39 million shares, potentially increasing the offering to about $127.1 million. Hagerty will…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (724+ words) A raid on a remote Mexican crypto farm is first an alleged electricity-theft case. Whether it also exposes cartel finance depends on evidence that has not been made public. Authorities in Puebla dismantled a cryptocurrency facility near the Nuevo Necaxa…...