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Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, added thirty-five million dollars in bitcoin last week while simultaneously building up three hundred million dollars in cash reserves. That dual move is a deliberate signal to investors worried about dividend payments on its preferred shares, which have taken a beating. It's a company trying to reassure Wall Street while doubling down on crypto.
On a lighter but genuinely fascinating note, a Microsoft researcher has built a functioning large language model inside Age of Empires Two, powered by in-game goats. The project wasn't just a stunt — it was a philosophical argument. By demonstrating that an LLM can run on something as absurd as virtual livestock, the researcher makes the case that the underlying process is mechanical, not sentient. Weird science, serious point.
And in security news, a fast-moving piece of malware called AryStinger has compromised more than four thousand D-Link and QNAP routers, quietly turning them into a proxy botnet. The number of infected NAS storage devices remains unknown, which is arguably the more unsettling detail. Unsecured hardware sitting quietly on home and business networks keeps proving to be an irresistible target.
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