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Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September

Friday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

Tom’s Hardware: Extensive research into the pricing of some of the best hard drives on the market for large capacity, economical storage indicates that prices are beginning to increase sharply, with some of the most popular models on the market seeing increases upwards of 60%. According to research from ComputerBase, pricing analysis on 12 of the most popular mainstream drives on the market...

Xgram.io Announces XMR Exchange Services with High Limits

Friday at 16:16 PM, via Tech Financials

San Jose, Costa Rica (PinionNewswire) —  Xgram.io, a leading non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency exchange platform, today highlights the full availability of secure and private exchanges for privacy-focused coins, with particular emphasis on seamless Bitcoin (BTC) to Monero (XMR) swaps. Launched in 2023, Xgram.io has rapidly become a trusted choice for users seeking instant,...

Xgram Announces XMR Exchange Services with High Limits

Friday at 16:16 PM, via Tech Financials

San Jose, Costa Rica (PinionNewswire) —  Xgram.io, a leading non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency exchange platform, today highlights the full availability of secure and private exchanges for privacy-focused coins, with particular emphasis on seamless Bitcoin (BTC) to Monero (XMR) swaps. Launched in 2023, Xgram.io has rapidly become a trusted choice for users seeking instant,...

Code.org: Use AI In an Interview Without Our OK and You’re Dead To Us

Friday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

theodp writes: Code.org, the nonprofit backed by AI giants Microsoft, Google and Amazon and whose Hour of AI and free AI curriculum aim to make world’s K-12 schoolchildren AI literate, points job seekers to its AI Use Policy in Hiring, which promises dire consequences for those who use AI during interviews or take home assignments without its OK. Explaining “What’s Not Okay,” Code.org writes:...

Amazon Is Buying America’s First New Copper Output In More Than a Decade

Friday at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Amazon is turning to an Arizona mine that last year became the first new source of U.S. copper in more than a decade, to meet its data centers’ ravenous appetite for the industrial metal.The mine was restarted as a proving ground for Rio Tinto’s new method of unlocking low-grade copper deposits. Rio signed a two-year supply pact...

The Cost of Poor Digital Security, Explained

Friday at 13:18 PM, via Tech Financials

Digital security can be a hefty investment. Not only are the tools themselves on the costlier side of software, but constant investment, reinventing, and strategizing are essential. You can’t one-and-done your digital security, which is why the costs associated with digital security and, yes, cybercrime, are so high. How high, exactly? This blog post goes […]

Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry | Debora MacKenzie

Friday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

This week’s furore is microplastics researchers’ ozone moment. If they fail, the powerful plastics lobby will step into the breach

Debora MacKenzie is a science journalist and author of Stopping the Next Pandemic: How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save Humanity

Are we being injured and killed by ubiquitous, teeny-tiny shards of toxic plastic? Or aren’t we? For many months, the Guardian has reported a...

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