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The 256 Foundation is trying to turn Bitcoin mining’s most proprietary layers into interchangeable open-source building blocks, and its first private in-person fundraiser in San Francisco put the complete stack in front of operators, engineers, donors and vendors. The nonprofit’s September 15 account says attendees at Presidio Bitcoin worked directly with four projects: Ember One…
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MIPS and Xcelsa Labs are applying artificial intelligence to a difficult semiconductor problem: optimizing production-scale processor logic quickly while proving that the rewritten design remains functionally equivalent to the reference. AI moves into custom-silicon optimization The companies announced a strategic, non-exclusive partnership on September 29 combining MIPS’ workload-focused RISC-V platforms with Xcelsa’s Apex design-optimization system.…
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Destro AI has raised $8 million in seed funding to scale a software layer designed to coordinate different warehouse robots, people and workflows as one operating system. The company announcement says the round was co-led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures, while independent funding coverage confirms participation from CoFound Partners and says Destro plans to…
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A Bitcoin miner that deliberately cuts hashrate can expose a subtle weakness in some mining-pool variable-difficulty controllers: the machine slows down, but its assigned share difficulty may remain calibrated for the faster miner it used to be. Bitcoin Optech highlighted the issue on September 18 after mining engineer Eric Price published a detailed controller analysis.…
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Chinese data-center manufacturers are looking at the U.S. AI construction boom with a different proposition: build most of the data center in a factory, ship the modules to the site and assemble them like an industrial product. The approach is the focus of the CNBC report supplied with this story. Brightray, a Singapore-registered AI infrastructure…
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AxeOS makes a Bitaxe easy to point at a mining pool, but the fields in the pool screen represent several different parts of the Stratum connection. Understanding what each field does is more useful than copying somebody else’s settings blindly. The current upstream ESP-Miner project supports multiple pool slots, primary and secondary selection, Stratum V1…
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AxeOS can make a Bitaxe look simple: open a browser, see a hashrate number and watch the miner work. The dashboard becomes much more useful when its readings are treated as one electrical, thermal, network and mining system rather than isolated numbers. This second fundamentals guide focuses on reading the machine before changing it. New…
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CD PROJEKT RED released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered on September 29, turning the 2015 RPG into a free modernized upgrade for existing owners while bringing Geralt’s adventure natively to Nintendo Switch 2 and Battle.net for the first time. The company says Remastered upgrades visuals, performance, combat, animations and the skill system while…
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AxeOS is not a Bitcoin mining company, a mining pool or a fleet operator. It is the browser-based user interface inside ESP-Miner, the open-source ESP32 firmware that powers Bitaxe-class Bitcoin ASIC miners. That distinction is the starting point for understanding the project. A Bitaxe is the physical miner. ESP-Miner is the embedded firmware controlling the…
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Braiins is approaching a September 30 cutoff for free early access to Price Adapt, a Braiins Manager feature that changes Bitcoin miner power targets automatically as electricity prices, hashprice and ASIC efficiency move through the day. The feature goes beyond binary curtailment. According to the company’s technical explanation, supported Braiins OS machines can be overclocked,…
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Minecraft Dungeons II launched September 29 across PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, but its biggest addition reaches beyond the sequel: Mojang is introducing the Sift, Minecraft’s first new dimension in more than 14 years. The developer’s launch announcement confirms the action RPG is live today, bringing four-player online…
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