Author: Carter

HOOD RIVER COUNTY, Ore. – May 26, 2026 – Abundant Mines, a leading Bitcoin mining and energy infrastructure company, has been honored with The Satos Award for Mining & Energy—receiving the distinction in the award program’s very first year. The presentation took place at the Abundant Mines booth during the Bitcoin Conference 2026.  The Satos Awards is an exclusively Bitcoin-focused program recognizing outstanding achievement throughout the Bitcoin ecosystem. Nominations and voting were publicly open and fully determined by the Bitcoin community, making this award a genuine expression of the community’s consensus.  “Being recognized with a Satos Awards in its inaugural…

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was designed to plug a major hole in identity protection. The idea was simple: even if a hacker obtained login credentials, they still couldn’t get in without the second verification step. While this concept made perfect sense, cybercriminals have since found a clever workaround — they no longer need to steal that second factor; they just trick the user into providing it themselves. If your team relies on push-based MFA, this type of attack poses a real and immediate risk to your business. Solutions like Specops Secure Access were created specifically to address this vulnerability, but before…

Stability AI has made the open weights for Stable Audio 3 publicly available, along with a detailed technical research paper. Stable Audio 3 is a collection of latent diffusion models designed to produce stereo audio at a 44.1 kHz sample rate. These models offer support for variable-length audio generation, editing through inpainting, and rapid inference speeds. What Is Stable Audio 3? Stable Audio 3 comes in three different model sizes: small, medium, and large. At its core, a latent diffusion model works by learning to gradually strip away noise from a compressed version of audio, known as a latent. Through…

I recently had the chance to experiment with new AI-driven analytical tools, including Microsoft Fabric’s data agent. I’d like to share my experience, clarify what a data agent is, and explain how it differs from a typical AI agent. So, here’s how I define a data agent: A data agent is a report you can have a conversation with. For those of us working in analytics, this could finally make two long-standing hopes come true: #1: Analysts spend significantly less time creating visualizations.#2: Self-service insights become more accessible to business users. Let me go into more detail on each of…

Posted on May 26, 2026 by Mauricio Salatino (Ecosystem Engineer at Dash0), Mario Fahlandt (Customer Delivery Architect at Kubermatic), and Brandt Keller (OSS Maintainer at Defense Unicorns) The 2026 CNCF TOC cohort stands out for a notable reason: three of the newly elected members — Brandt, former TAG Security lead; Mario, former TAG Operational Resilience lead; and Mauricio Salatino, former TAG Developer Experience co-chair — all transitioned directly from TAG leadership roles. This isn’t accidental. With TAG nominations currently open, we felt it was the perfect time to pull back the curtain and share what the journey from TAG leadership…

Jack Wallen/ZDNETKey points from ZDNETAurora Linux is a fixed, unchangeable Linux distribution accessible to everyone.This version comes equipped with GPU drivers, practical default settings, and robust security features.You can install Aurora for free.There are many reasons to consider using an unchangeable Linux distribution. Such systems are highly secure since certain critical folders are set to read-only mode, preventing any changes from being made, which significantly enhances security.While this might seem difficult to handle, you may be pleased to find that these types of distributions are still simple to operate. You can continue installing and running any applications you need (using…

Analog Devices Inc. | Sponsor (Image courtesy of Analog Devices Inc.) Building a humanoid robot ranks among the most challenging tasks in modern robotics. On its own, such a system must coordinate movement, maintain balance, interpret visual input, and respond rapidly—all through an intricate network of joints, sensors, and data processors. The stakes rise even higher when the robot shares its workspace with people. For humans, most of these actions feel effortless. We instinctively sense our center of gravity and shift it when running, jumping, or sidestepping an obstacle. We absorb enormous volumes of sound and sight at once, in…

# Introduction Python offers an extensive collection of libraries designed for managing data at scale. As datasets expand into gigabytes and beyond, conventional tools like pandas quickly reach their boundaries. When handling billions of rows, executing distributed machine learning workflows, or processing live event streams, purpose-built libraries become essential. This article explores tools that address: Datasets too large to fit in a single machine’s RAM Spreading computations across multiple cores or entire clusters Live and streaming data processing Seamless connections to cloud storage and data warehouses Deployable production data pipelines Let’s take a closer look at each one. # 1.…

Key Points MiniCPM5-1B achieves an average score of 42.57 across agentic and reasoning tests, surpassing the closest 1B-class rival, which scored 35.61. The model comes ready to support MCP and native tool invocation, allowing local agent operations on everyday devices with no need for an internet connection. During testing, the model displayed solid conversational ability but generated a made-up chain-of-thought answer and stumbled on a straightforward logic puzzle. MiniCPM5-1B is a one-billion-parameter model released by OpenBMB, and it’s the newest addition to the MiniCPM lineup designed for on-device use. It natively supports tool calling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP),…

A cyber-espionage group traced to Iran, known as MuddyWater, has been connected to a fresh wave of attacks that impacted a minimum of nine organizations spanning nine nations across four continents during the opening quarter of 2026. The campaign struck targets in industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and government agencies, financial services, and professional consulting, according to the Threat Hunter Team at Symantec and Carbon Black. Among those compromised was a prominent South Korean electronics manufacturer, where the intruders remained active on its network for an entire week in February 2026. Also identified as victims of this wide-ranging spying operation…