Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for its content. That site is pretty much the same format as this blog, but with some improvements like better mobile rendering on / than this blog has historically had. […]

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Can You Live at an All-Inclusive Resort for Less than a Middle-Class Lifestyle?

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This spa’s water is heated by bitcoin mining

 “I thought, ‘That’s interesting—we need heat,’” Goodman says of Bathhouse. Mining facilities typically use fans or water to cool their computers. And pools of water, of course, are a prominent feature of the spa.  It takes six miners, each roughly the size of an Xbox One console, to maintain a hot tub at 104 °F. At […]

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Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems

Apr 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities. The packages in question are listed below – According to supply chain security firm Socket, the packages are designed to mimic node-telegram-bot-api, […]

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