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Jan 15

Kazakhstan had everything a Bitcoin miner could ask for: a cold climate, legions of old warehouses and factories, and dirt cheap energy. Then came the political turmoil and power cuts. wired.trib.al/i7IYR8h 1/9

Chaos engulfed Kazakhstan as protests over a spike in fuel prices resulted in police repression and an internet shutdown. Russian-led troops acting under the orders of the CSTO, a military alliance of post-Soviet states, were also deployed to the country. 2/9

The shutdown’s impact on crypto mining was evident—the Bitcoin network lost 12 percent of its hashrate. And the shutdown alone might have cost Kazakh miners around $20 million. 3/9

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Jan 14

November 26, 2018, the Jaws Challenge took place off the north coast of Maui as 70-foot waves rolled in off the Pacific Ocean that morning. Most of the competitors retreated ashore to wait out the dangerous conditions, but not Maui local, Kai Lenny. wired.trib.al/WdQu8UN 1/10

That day on Maui, Lenny traded his 10-foot paddle-in board for a tow-board. Then he had a Jet Ski pull him into tsunami-sized walls of water. With a helicopter overhead & contest video cameras live streaming, Lenny seized the spotlight for the next four hours. 📸: Ryan Young 2/10

The thing is, none of Lenny’s versatility and style served him when he reached the final heat of the Jaws Challenge when the contest resumed. He found himself facing off against a childhood rival from Maui named Billy Kemper. 3/10

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Jan 12

Scientists are racing to understand how Thwaites —aka the Doomsday Glacier— is disintegrating, and how much time humanity has before it causes disastrous sea level rise. wired.trib.al/r4OdPYj 1/9

Each new satellite image of Thwaites shows deeper and longer fractures that are growing up to 6 miles a year. But the view from above only tells half the story. That’s why scientists are also investigating the glacier’s hard-to-reach underbelly—and things aren’t looking good. 2/9

“When you look at the underside, it's a very intricate, complex landscape that has cliffs and gouges and fractures in it, and it's much thinner than the rest of the ice shelf,” says glaciologist Erin Pettit.📸:Karen Alley 3/9

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Jan 7

We're ready to declare these 14 products to be the most interesting things we saw at CES 2022. wired.com/story/best-of-…
📷: Ethan Miller / Getty Images #CES2022 #CES 1/7

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The Best PC - @ASUS Zenbook 17 Fold
Foldables are still finding their place, but Asus' design for a folding laptop-tablet hybrid is one of the more promising efforts we've seen this year: wired.com/story/best-of-… #CES2022 #CES

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Best in Mobile - @Google Fast Pair & Audio Switching
This tech is expanding to include the quick-pairing of headphones with Google TVs & Chromebooks, connecting an Android phone to a new Chromebook for faster setup, and more: wired.com/story/best-of-… #CES2022 #CES

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Jan 7

The internet and its advertising giants know a huge amount about your life—and the goal is to keep it that way by making the process of removing personal information and deleting accounts a total pain. Here’s how you minimize your digital footprint. wired.trib.al/Y4Oc1DR 1/7

You’ll need to start by tracking down those old Myspace and Tumblr accounts and removing all traces of them. You should also clean out stored online data like email accounts with old messages (and attachments). 2/7

Depending on the situation, you may want to try to speed things up a little or use legal muscle if it involves harmful content. Using a third-party data-removal service is also an option—make sure you read their privacy policies before using them. 3/7

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Jan 2

Referred to by some as the “McDonald’s of psychotherapy,” Vastaamo is the largest network of private mental health providers in Finland which has a population of about 5.5 million. 1/ wired.trib.al/vv5Fagr

A security flaw in the company’s IT systems exposed its entire patient database to the open internet—not just email addresses and social security numbers, but the actual written notes that therapists had taken.
🎨: Mark Harris
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30,000 former patients are believed to have received ransom demands from the hackers who breached the class B system; leading 25,000 to report the crime to the police. 3/

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