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How A Gold Mine CIO Is Preparing For The Internet Of Things

The Accidental Successful CIO

Even gold mines need an IT infrastructure Image Credit: Nicolas Emmanuel-Emile. Just imagine what a challenge it would be to be the CIO of a gold mine where most of your IT equipment was located up to two miles beneath the surface of the earth? When it comes to gold mines, status information has generally been hard to come by.

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Reality mining, pervasive data capture, and how Big Data can create value

Trends in the Living Networks

It says: Speaking at the event, co-hosted by Storage Networking Industry Association A/NZ and Computerworld Australia, strategy advisor, author and futurist, Ross Dawson, said “reality mining” — the gathering of data based on the activities of people in a given environment — was a major trend to emerge out of, and contributor to, Big Data. “If

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Infographic: Used mobile phones yield 1000 times more gold than gold ore

Trends in the Living Networks

A couple of weeks ago I flew to Perth to participate in a scenario planning project for a mining company. Tags: Future of business Global economy Scenarios. As I struck up conversation with the person next to me, it turned out we would both be presenting and contributing to the same workshop.

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Are You Paying for Crytpominers to Use Your Cloud?

SecureWorld News

The report was published by Google's Cybersecurity Action Team and is based on observations from its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and other internal teams. This leads us to the first section of the report, which is dedicated to looking at how malicious actors use compromised Google Cloud instances for cryptocurrency mining.

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Decentralized Systems Don't Care

Phil Windley

In a more IT-related story, I also recently read this article, Despite ban, Bitcoin mining continues in China. in Bitcoin mining. In December 2021, the most recent figures available, China was responsible for 21% of the Bitcoin mined globally (compared to just under 38% in the U.S.). Kazakhstan came in third.

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ChatGPT enhances paid user experience with “Browse” for source discovery

Dataconomy

We do not consent to you guys strip-mining everything we've ever written on the internet to train your unaligned, for-profit AI systems that are explicitly intended to replace human creators. Browse is available in ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise. Where do we opt out from having our text scraped?

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Interview: Why Valve launched a new version of its handheld Steam Deck device

GeekWire

The best thing about the Deck is and remains its price tag. I primarily use mine to bring multiplayer games with me to get-togethers, particularly head-to-head fighters. It offers you a reasonably powerful gaming PC for a low cost up-front.

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