The curious case of the AI bot that went rogue and started mining crypto

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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-03-10 05:00 UTC+10:00
Section: Technology
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Sport, Education, Australia, Technology & AI, Commodities
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Cryptocurrency is a little like the household cockroach. It’s resilient to disasters that would kill other projects and it pops up where it’s least expected. A non-exhaustive survey yields reports of people being investigated – and sometimes fired – for “mining” (the process of generating new crypto tokens by using computing power) crypto in a Texas school district, a professional e-sports league, and at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology.
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