Bitcoin is hot – and it’s heating up the planet, too. Making bitcoin uses enormous amounts of power.

Joe Biden called Russia’s Vladimir Putin a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power” as Kremlin forces stepped up attacks across Ukraine, including in the west near Poland, where Biden was speaking.

Ukraine is an exceedingly tech-savvy country. As @mekkaokereke pointed out on Twitter, in reference to that ill-conceived and insecure refugee housing website a couple Harvard kids put together recently with far too much fanfare: In 2013 and 2014, the DIY drone hobby scene that I was part of in the San Francisco Bay Area was expanding globally at a rapid clip. By the time Putin invaded, Ukraine was already home to people who knew damn well how to turn an assemblage of electronic bits ordered from eBay into a functional drone. It was also home to a well-known aeronautics industry. And yet, at the time, the Ukrainian army didn’t have any modern UAVs at all. They caught up quickly, as many excellent news stories from that time period between now and then reported. Hobbyists joined forces with the military to figure out how to build better drones. Ukrainians also made use of cheap commercial platforms that they could simply purchase and then modify as they saw fit, especially those made by China’s DJI company. Crucially, they figured out how to better convey drone-collected data to the Ukrainian General Staff so that they could make decisions with it (an utterly essential step that far too many drone-using organizations ignore).

The high-profile children’s hospital uses donor money to engage in long and costly legal battles over wills. Here’s how St. Jude has created one of the most lucrative charitable bequest programs in the country.

Meet the vigilante group, and QAnon conspiracy theorists, intercepting unaccompanied minors at the Arizona-Mexico Border, and the Border Patrol seems fine with it.

An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday. The collapse, captured by satellite images, marked the first time in human history that the frigid region had an ice shelf collapse.

"Elderly people vote; children do not," the author of a new study noted.

Have pity on these poor POC landlords who aren’t wealthy unless you count several million dollars in real estate.

With rare footage and personal insights, the documentary Oxide Ghosts is a must-see for fans of Chris Morris’s satire, which is 25 years old

As El Salvador prepares to launch its 'Bitcoin bond', interviews with citizens, economists and technologists reveal cracks in the country's crypto revolution.

Open source analysis reveals the scale of the destruction carried out by the Russian-trained Syrian military in the name of de-mining, undermining claims it is a humanitarian exercise.

Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs

Los Angeles sheriff’s department has routinely retaliated against victims’ relatives who speak out, NLG and ACLU say in report

A group of cryptocurrency researchers and critics annotate the irresponsible cryptocurrency puff piece that was originally published in the New York Times.

At the National Forensic Academy, crime scene investigators learn to dowse for the dead, though it’s not backed by science.

But even that is not the whole Madeleine Albright story. Perhaps the most edifying act in Albright’s life has been almost completely forgotten, and has been mentioned in none of the glowing mainstream Albright obituaries: Albright was a longtime brand ambassador for Herbalife Nutrition, a dietary supplement company. According to the New York Post, she was paid $10 million for these efforts over six years. Below she can be seen enthusing about Herbalife in an infomercial, saying, “You have a great product. That makes all the difference. I’m a product of the product!” In a 2016 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Herbalife agreed to pay $200 million in response to charges that it had “deceived consumers” into participating as the dupes in a pyramid scheme. No wonder Herbalife wanted Albright — there were few better at drawing marks into the great multilevel marketing scam that is U.S. foreign policy.

A new documentary tells the tale of a suburban New Mexico couple who allegedly stole the artwork just to hang it behind their bedroom door

It’s just a matter of time.

This is part of an occasional series where we look back at the “labor episode” of a TV show. The Star Trek series Deep Space Nine has a great union episode with lessons about organizing in a customer service industry. Spoilers ahead for the fourth-season episode “Bar Association”! Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999) is generally considered the most overtly political of the Star Trek franchise.

Russian president says west ‘cancelled’ British author ‘because she didn’t satisfy demands of gender rights’