This is crazy.
At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/10/at-u-s-request-france-jails-…
Countries are going to have to compete with one another in order to attract not just the most qualified doctors, engineers and things like that, but workers of all kinds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion
Eigenlijk was dat best Eem lekker besturingssysteem... 😀
"Aangezien XP geen backdoors heeft mbt persoonlijke data wordt het gezien als safe."
En als de Russen die Amerikaanse software veilig genoeg vinden voor zichzelf, zal dat dus ook wel kloppen.
#Microsoft #Rusland
"The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. .... From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines"