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Will Your EV Keep the Lights on When the Grid Goes Down?

GreenTechMedia

Last month’s preventative power shutoffs in California highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to threats exacerbated by a changing climate. But what about the mobile battery packs carried in the hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles now on the road in California?

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

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Gox in 2011. The botnet Akamai analyzed makes use of the computing assets and electrical energy supply of contaminated machines to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The historical past of hacks, fraud and theft involving bitcoin dates back to a minimum of 2011. An instance of such a safety breach occurred with Mt.