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Novogratz Pushes Galaxy Past Bitcoin Mining Into $1B AI Power Business

DIGIT — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:18:49 +0000

Galaxy Digital finished the first phase of its Helios data center campus in West Texas on July 6, 2026, delivering 133 megawatts of critical IT load to Coreweave. The site sits in Dickens County, about 60 miles from Lubbock. It started as a bitcoin mining facility built by Argo Blockchain in 2021. Galaxy bought it […]

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Siada Brings Nvidia B200 GPUs Online as UAE Keeps Sensitive AI Data Inside Its Borders

DIGIT — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:35:25 +0000

United Arab Emirates tech enterprise Siada and Innovation City have launched the region’s first operational sovereign AI data center in Ras Al Khaimah. Bypassing Global Chip Shortages In a bid to bypass global tech supply bottlenecks and tighten data security, United Arab Emirates (UAE) tech enterprise Siada and Innovation City announced July 6 the launch […]

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An Easy-to-Miss Radio Traffic Jam Is Behind Many Home WiFi Slowdowns

DIGIT — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:05:09 +0000

Home WiFi slowdowns often come from congestion on the shared 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, where nearby networks compete for a small set of channels, especially on 2.4 GHz. The crunch typically spikes during peak usage windows like 8 to 10 AM and 6 to 10 PM, and interference can also come from microwaves, […]

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Elon Musk Says Space Is ‘the Only Way to Scale’ AI as SpaceX Chases 1 Gigawatt in Orbit by 2027

DIGIT — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:05:08 +0000

Musk reiterated today that orbital data centers are the endgame for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, as SpaceX races to build satellites that would deliver 1 gigawatt (GW) of space-based compute per year by late 2027. “Space is the Only Way to Scale at Scale” He first declared the same earlier in February, when his AI […]

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China Warns of ‘Spy Turtles’ Fitted With Sensors in Its Territorial Waters

DIGIT — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:30:13 +0000

China’s Ministry of State Security said it has found sea turtles and fish in its territorial waters fitted with miniature sensors, warning the devices could be used to collect ocean data for detailed submarine mapping. In a June 12, 2026 post on the agency’s official WeChat account, it also pointed to espionage buoys and wave […]

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These 12-Sided Roman Bronze Objects Have Kept Their Secret Since 1739

DIGIT — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:30:59 +0000

First discovered in 1739, more than 100 Gallo-Roman dodecahedrons have since turned up, largely across the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. The hollow bronze pieces, built with 12 pentagonal faces and small spheres at each vertex, still have no agreed-upon purpose despite decades of research and dozens of competing theories. Archaeologists keep pulling the […]

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23 Years Later, a Boeing 727 That Took off in Angola Is Still Missing

DIGIT — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:33:48 +0000

On May 25, 2003, a Boeing 727-223 registered as N844AA took off without authorization from Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Luanda, Angola, with its lights out and transponder silent. The jet, once flown by American Airlines and later converted for diesel transport, triggered searches involving the FBI, CIA, and other U.S. agencies. No confirmed […]

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Russia Is Reviving a 1964 US Nuclear-Powered Missile Idea, Despite the Radiation Risk

DIGIT — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:30:36 +0000

In 1964, the US built and then shelved Project Pluto, a nuclear-powered cruise missile concept abandoned largely over radiation hazards. Russia has revived the idea with Burevestnik, a direct-cycle turbojet that heats incoming air with a reactor and can shed radioactive isotopes along its flight path, a risk underscored by a 2019 White Sea test […]

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Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Says Cryptography’s Hardest Problem Is Still Unsolved

DIGIT — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:40:12 +0000

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a detailed technical breakdown on Monday, calling cryptographic obfuscation the “final boss of cryptography” and laying out why solving it would let developers build nearly any trustless protocol imaginable. What Obfuscation Actually Does Most people in crypto are familiar with encryption, which hides data in transit, and zero-knowledge proofs, which […]

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US Distances Its Naval Assets From Asia as New Guidelines for Tracking Emerge

DIGIT — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:30:01 +0000

A new Chinese military study led by Gao Tianyun at the National University of Defense Technology in Nanjing describes how a U.S. carrier strike group could be tracked and targeted from 3,000 kilometers away, roughly the distance from Shanghai to Guam. The concept relies on a network of satellites, drones, radar aircraft, submarines, ships, and […]

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