Lab behind atomic bomb is using AI to take on illegal Bitcoin mining

Los Alamos researchers say their AI system is quicker and more reliable than non-AI methods.
By Robert Stevens

A group of researchers at Los Alamos, the US science laboratory that created the atomic bomb, have created an artificial intelligence system that keeps crypto miners out of supercomputers.

Occasionally, hackers manage to infect supercomputers—some of the most powerful computers in the world, with processing speeds hundreds of thousands of times faster than even the top gaming PCs—with cryptocurrency miners