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The capacity of power grids, water systems, satellites and telecom networks to withstand cyberattacks, outages and natural hazards like geomagnetic storms.
Gizmodo counts dozens of US water treatment plants attacked since February. The security consortium director it interviewed says the connection itself matters less than what the utility does with the data coming back off the controller.
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A dev.to post citing Reuters says the single 26-square-kilometer Abu Dhabi concept is giving way to dispersed data centers after drone and missile damage to AWS facilities, with air defenses and underground construction under consideration.
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The railway line in the story did not open until 1846, so a team led by Lancaster University went back to timetables, newspapers and magnetic records and moved the 16-minute delay to 18 October 1848.
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CISA, the FBI and partner agencies in four countries now tell service providers to fix incident thresholds, escalation paths and status page wording before anything breaks, which hands customers something they can test after the fact.
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A Geophysical Research Letters team paired aurora cameras with ground receivers across the US and Canada, and found hours of amplitude scintillation and 10-metre positioning error in mid-latitudes long treated as quiet.
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The bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act would let CISA compel throttle and shutdown capability inside frontier labs. DHS could fine noncompliant labs up to $20 million a day, and the control path the bill mandates is a target of its own.
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A carbon-14 spike of about 12 parts per thousand in AD 774-775 implies a storm roughly ten times Carrington. Planning against Carrington means planning an order of magnitude short.
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