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The NSA is raising alarms about a wave of cyberattacks targeting automatic tank gauges, the sensors that monitor fuel and chemical levels across energy, food, agriculture, and transportation infrastructure. These components sit at the heart of critical systems, and officials are urging owners to audit access and shore up defenses immediately.
Shifting from physical infrastructure to the digital kind, Kevin O'Leary has agreed to cut his proposed Utah data center nearly in half, dropping roughly nineteen thousand acres from a forty thousand acre footprint near the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area. The move follows sustained pressure from local residents and environmental advocates, suggesting that even well-funded tech ambitions have to reckon with the communities they land in.
And in a story that says something interesting about attention and authenticity, indie artist Phoebe Bridgers has been teasing new music through a series of surprise, small-venue shows with phones banned at the door. The result is genuine word-of-mouth buzz in an era when most artists flood every platform simultaneously. Sometimes the oldest strategy in the book is the most disruptive one.
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