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In brief Bitmine says it now holds 5.79 million ETH worth about $11.3 billion. The company’s holdings now represent roughly 4.8% of Ethereum’s circulating supply. Bitmine expanded its staking operations while accelerating share repurchases. Crypto treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies said Sunday it has increased its Ethereum holdings to 5.79 million ETH, bringing its combined crypto holdings, cash, marketable securities, and strategic investments to $11.8 billion as it moves closer to its goal of acquiring 5% of Ethereum’s total supply.According to the company, it now holds 5.8 million ETH, 208 Bitcoin, worth approximately $13.6 million, $268 million in cash and…

NASA will provide coverage as astronauts venture outside the International Space Station during three spacewalks in August to continue upgrading solar arrays, replace a communications antenna, and connect power and data cables in support of space station operations. Experts will preview the upcoming spacewalks during a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 30, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will stream these events through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online: https://www.nasa.gov/live NASA participants in the news conference include: Bill Spetch, deputy manager of Commercial, Low Earth Orbit Program Chris Dobbins, spacewalk flight director…

Several widely shared social media posts are claiming that most pregnant women in Australia who received the Covid-19 vaccine experienced miscarriages, and that the country’s birth rate fell 67% as a result.These claims are false.The posts, which we’ve seen on Facebook and TikTok, come originally from a 2024 interview with a funeral director called John O’Looney, who we have fact checked twice before.Vaccinated women are no more likely to suffer miscarriagesThe source for Mr O’Looney’s claims of a 76% miscarriage rate among vaccinated women isn’t entirely clear. In the video he says: “76% of Covid vaccinated mothers lost their babies……

The sinking of a state-run ferry, which killed an estimated 100 people this month, is deepening political fault lines in Guyana, an oil-rich country and a top U.S. ally in South America.The tragedy was Guyana’s deadliest event since the 1978 Jonestown mass murder and suicide, which left more than 900 dead. Many Guyanese are asking how this new disaster could happen in what is now one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.When the ferry sank, I was in Guyana to report on something completely different: the nation’s oil boom. But everywhere I went, the tragedy suddenly dominated conversations, reflecting how the…

When Michigan’s oldest operating nuclear power plant shut down in 2022, it was supposed to be for good. The plant, which sits on the coast of Lake Michigan, had company — dozens of other reactors had already been wound down.But soon after the turbines stopped spinning, those plans changed. A little-known company from Camden, N.J., quietly started taking steps to attempt what no one had done before in the United States: restart a shuttered nuclear reactor. The process would take about two years, estimated the company, Holtec International.Four years later, the plant, called Palisades, is not yet generating power.The delay…

Compare Top 3 Smart RingsHonorable MentionsWe have tested several other entrants in this category, some good, some bad, and some in between. Here’s the lowdown on some of your smart ring alternatives.Photograph: Simon HillOura Ring 4 for $349: While the Ring 5 is the smallest smart ring on the market, the Ring 4 is still slimmer and lighter than its predecessor. There’s also a ceramic version. Reviewer Simon Hill had issues with dwindling battery life and some scuffing with his silver Ring 4, but he hasn’t encountered those issues with the ceramic version.Photograph: Simon HillLeep Ring for $199: A British…

GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) have introduced new policies meant to boost supply chain security by preventing the fast propagation of poisoned package versions and the poisoning of old and long-stable releases. To prevent the fast delivery of malicious code through the immediate fetching of brand-new releases, GitHub has introduced a Dependabot cooldown, where the automation tool waits for at least three days after a release has been published before opening a pull request. “Waiting a few days before adopting a new release gives maintainers, security researchers, and automated scanners time to spot a malicious version and get…

Bitcoin treasury Strategy on Monday announced that it had again skipped buying Bitcoin, instead buying back its own preferred stock, Stretch (STRC), for $25 million. In a filing and post on X, the company said it sold 5,429,160 shares of MSTR common stock through its at-the-market program between July 20 and July 26, generating $544.5 million in net proceeds.  It was the first time the company did a buyback of its STRC product, one of the firm’s several products that gives investors exposure to Bitcoin via shares that pay a dividend.   The company still holds 843,775 Bitcoins on its balance…

Cheetahs are back in Zambia’s Greater Luangwa Ecosystem, nearly 30 years after the big cats’ last recorded presence in the massive landscape. Six cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), three males and three females, were earlier in July moved by Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) and several conservation groups, including the South Africa-based Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), to a remote part of North Luangwa National Park. The cheetahs were translocated from private reserves in South Africa. Another six will be moved in August, while a third batch of six will follow in August 2027, according to a statement…

Alaska-based Sitkana is set to deploy its new prototype tidal turbine at the Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative’s (MRECo) Bourne Tidal Test Site (BTTS) in Massachusetts, U.S.Source: Sitkana At BTTS, located in the Cape Cod Canal, the turbine will operate in powerful tidal currents while engineers evaluate its performance, reliability, and durability in real ocean conditions, marking a step forward to commercial deployment. According to Sitkana, the technology uses smaller modular units that combine into larger arrays, allowing systems to scale without large-scale infrastructure or specialized installation equipment. “Our goal is to make marine energy easier to build, deploy, and maintain…