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Filing: MGM sues the FTC to stop an investigation into a 2023 cyberattack and asks for Chair Lina Khan's recusal; Khan stayed at the MGM Grand in September 2023 (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MGM Resorts Sues US FTC to Stop Investigation of Casino Hack
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year.

Okay, I get matching phase and frequency before grid connect. Synchroscope makes sense
They were messing with the amount of water let in to speed up and slow down the turbine,
But once it goes grid connect, they open the throttle wide open (I guess to push more watts?) And... It holds phase? How's that work?
Where is the exciter routed before grid connect? Straight back to itself? Straight to ground? Disconnected terminals?
What force resists speeding up beforehand? Just friction?
What force resists going out of phase afterwards? Why can you suddenly dump as much water as you like in the wicket gates?
What's the autopilot adjusting or following at that point? Solar inverters are grid following, what about hydro governors?
What makes it force disconnect during shutdown? A loss of watts? A loss of phase? A loss of frequency?
#hydro #electric #powerplant start-up
And this one is an auto shutdown:
#electricalengineering

I am feeling as if it is September 1, 1939.

“I don’t like this reality,” Mike Johnson said. “Vladimir Putin is an evil war criminal.”
But he quickly added: “Vladimir Putin will not lose this war.”
That argument
— that the Russian president cannot be stopped so there’s no point in using American taxpayer dollars against him
— marks a new stage in the Republican Party’s growing acceptance of Russian expansionism in the age of Donald Trump.

The Republican Party is seeing a growing acceptance of Russian expansionism in the age of Donald Trump
Republicans have been softening their stance on Russia ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election following Russian hacking of his Democratic opponents. There are several reasons for the shift. For one, Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding himself out as an international champion of conservative Christian values. As well, the GOP is growing increasingly skeptical of international entanglements. Then there's Trump’s own embrace of the Russian leader. Now the GOP’s ambi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02220 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Designed Dithering Sign Activation for Binary Neural Networks
Binary Neural Networks emerged as a cost-effective and energy-efficient solution for computer vision tasks by binarizing either network weights or activations. However, common binary activations, such as the Sign activation function, abruptly binarize the values with a single threshold, losing fine-grained details in the feature outputs. This work proposes an activation that applies multiple thresholds following dithering principles, shifting the Sign activation function for each pixel accordin…

A rather surprising headline … #windows #microsoft
https://tech.…

“I don’t like this reality,” Mike Johnson said. “Vladimir Putin is an evil war criminal.”
But he quickly added: “Vladimir Putin will not lose this war.”
That argument
— that the Russian president cannot be stopped so there’s no point in using American taxpayer dollars against him
— marks a new stage in the Republican Party’s growing acceptance of Russian expansionism in the age of Donald Trump.

The Republican Party is seeing a growing acceptance of Russian expansionism in the age of Donald Trump
Republicans have been softening their stance on Russia ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election following Russian hacking of his Democratic opponents. There are several reasons for the shift. For one, Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding himself out as an international champion of conservative Christian values. As well, the GOP is growing increasingly skeptical of international entanglements. Then there's Trump’s own embrace of the Russian leader. Now the GOP’s ambi…