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A violent reminder tonight that digital wealth carries very real physical risk. In what police are calling a horrific attack, a man in the UK was beaten with hammers by thieves who threatened his pregnant wife until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of cryptocurrency. It is a brutal illustration of how visible crypto holdings can make targets of ordinary people.
Shifting to orbit, Google has confirmed its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is now in space. Details remain limited, but the project appears tied to Google Research's ongoing work in energy and connectivity from above. It is early days, but when a company the size of Google quietly puts hardware into orbit, it tends to be worth watching closely.
And on the hardware front, two stories out of China signal a quiet rethinking of how workstations are built. Maxsun is using enterprise-grade MCIO cabling to physically separate the graphics card from the motherboard in a compact chassis, while Gunnir is squeezing two Intel Arc Pro B seventy GPUs and sixty four gigabytes of graphics memory into a water-cooled mini system. Both point toward a future where the traditional tower layout is no longer a given.
Stay curious out there. Tech Beat out.
