#critical-infrastructure

#critical-infrastructure

"Artificial Intelligence is a coming storm that threatens to alter - and I believe, improve - all organizations. The pace of technological change today means that the Fed does not have the time to sit back and ruminate about changes for months and years on end."

"These are mega-rich people who are not here to do charitable things. They don't love Joliet. I'm here because I love Joliet, and I don't want to see my utilities go up."

NRSWA certification has transitioned from a nice-to-have credential to a genuine precondition for winning local-authority and utility contracts, reflecting a tightening labor market.

"A stellarator is a thing that is objectively very difficult to design, objectively very difficult to build, but if it works, it can control the burning hot plasma better than a tokamak."

The real problem is infrastructure, not vehicle safety. Roadways are open systems with infinite variables—weather, pedestrians, distracted drivers, and aging infrastructure. Communication between vehicles is minimal, and infrastructure is largely silent—and in that gap lies the potential for deadly collisions.

"We were considering multiple forms of capital when we started. It just felt like the opportunity is so large that venture capital gives us the opportunity to take those risks upfront and have the possibility to generate an outsized return."

Architecture can no longer be conceived as an isolated object, detached from the technical networks that sustain contemporary life. This condition calls for new readings and approaches.

A Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) that cannot reach the privilege plane is operationally ineffective - even at a CVSS Score of 10. This should be a core philosophy that is embedded into the fabric of software engineering.

Data centers accounted for around 50% of all electricity demand growth in the U.S. last year, according to the IEA, far surpassing the rise in electricity usage in the residential, industrial, and transport sectors.

The attack is impacting our application, with users experiencing intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search.

The findings are based on several years of deploying OMICRON's intrusion detection system (IDS) StationGuard in protection, automation, and control (PAC) systems. The technology, which monitors network traffic passively, has provided deep visibility into real-world OT environments. The results underscore the growing attack surface in energy systems and the challenges operators face in securing aging infrastructure and complex network architectures.