The U.S. Department of Energy and Microsoft on Tuesday announced a partnership to develop artificial-intelligence tools aimed at helping first-responders better react to fast-changing natural events, such as floods and wildfires. From a report: “There are just so many technologies where we can solve some of the toughest problems, in a moment where we’re having an explosion of wildfires and floods…
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Massive 20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors
FallOutBoyTonto writes: A leaker today posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel’s crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. The leaker dubbed the release the “Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release ;)” The folder has been posted by an anonymous source that claims more…
Extreme rising seas could wipe out assets worth $14 trillion by 2100
Coastal floods wrought by rising seas could affect tens of millions more people and wipe out assets worth trillions of dollars by the end of the century, if the world fails to prevent the worst-case climate change scenario Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250270-extreme-rising-seas-could-wipe-out-assets-worth-14-trillion-by-2100/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Recent decades of European floods are among the worst in 500 years
The years 1990-2016 rank among the worst periods of flooding in Europe in five centuries, according to an assessment of historical letters, annals and legal records Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2249489-recent-decades-of-european-floods-are-among-the-worst-in-500-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Steaming river of black sludge floods through Arizona
After the Bighorn Fire burned a large area near Pima County, Arizona, a river of dark sludge rushed toward town. Source: https://www.livescience.com/debris-flow-flash-flood-bighorn-pima-arizona.html
George Floyd: Anonymous Hackers Reemerge Amid US Unrest
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: As the United States deals with widespread civil unrest across dozens of cities, “hacktivist” group Anonymous has returned from the shadows. The hacker collective was once a regular fixture in the news, targeting those it accused of injustice with cyber-attacks. After years of relative quiet, it appears to have re-emerged in the…
On Mars, mud flows like lava
Scientists in Europe have found that some features on Mars that were thought to be lava flows may actually have been flows of muddy water. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mars-lava-mud-mud-volcanoes…
Federal Report Warns US is Unready For a Cyberattack
The U.S. should take a slew of steps today to prevent a major cyberattack that could wreak wide-scale devastation on the U.S., a year-long study mandated by Congress reported Wednesday. From a report: “A major cyberattack on the nation’s critical infrastructure and economic system would create chaos and lasting damage exceeding that wreaked by fires in California, floods in the Midwest,…
Electrical ‘storms’ and ‘flash floods’ drown the brain after a stroke
Strokes cause brain cells to short-circuit and trigger a dangerous flood of fluid in the tissue. Source: https://www.livescience.com/brain-floods-after-stroke.html
Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are Rising
As the world warms, scientists say that abrupt shifts in weather patterns, like droughts followed by severe floods, are intensifying. From a report: From 2011 to 2016, California experienced five years of extreme drought, during which numerous high temperature records were broken. These hot, dry years were followed by the extremely wet winter of 2016-2017, when, from October to March, an…