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A Bitcoin mining facility in El Reno, Oklahoma has been condemned after leaking three million gallons of water, forcing schools, businesses, and government offices to close. What makes this story particularly striking is that the facility had been operating under a city stop-work order since two thousand twenty three, raising serious questions about enforcement and the real-world costs of unregulated crypto infrastructure.
Shifting to open source hardware, Asahi Linux has officially announced support for Apple's M three Macs, which is a meaningful milestone for anyone who wants to run Linux on Apple silicon. The caveats are real — GPU acceleration and some peripherals remain works in progress — but the project continues to demonstrate that Apple's tight hardware ecosystem isn't entirely impenetrable.
And finally, a security quirk worth knowing about in the popular torrent client qBittorrent. Researchers found the application breaking out of its sandbox environment in ways that could expose users to unintended system access. It's a reminder that even widely trusted, open source tools carry assumptions about trust that don't always hold up under scrutiny.
Stay curious, stay skeptical. Tech Beat out.
