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Europe's solar boom is creating a problem nobody expected: too much power. On sunny days, grids across the continent are overwhelmed, forcing operators to literally throw electricity away. The infrastructure built for fossil fuels simply wasn't designed to absorb this kind of surge, and until storage and grid investment catch up, the waste will continue.
Shifting to security, a newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability called Fragnesia is drawing serious attention from researchers. The flaw lives in how the kernel handles a rarely-used combination of network protocols, and it allows a local attacker to escalate their privileges to root level. Patches are moving quickly, but the exposure window on unpatched systems is real and worth taking seriously.
And in an era when AI is being celebrated for finding things, it's now finding vulnerabilities faster than the industry can absorb them. Palo Alto Networks scanned its entire codebase using frontier models and surfaced seventy-five security holes in one pass. Microsoft made a similar announcement just a day earlier. The result is a flood of patches that security teams are already struggling to process, raising a sharp question about whether AI is solving the problem or compounding it.
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